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06.23 From heatwaves to hurricanes, floods to famine: seven climate change hotspots
06.23 Latest diesel car models remain highly polluting, tests show
06.23 Norway issues $1bn threat to Brazil over rising Amazon destruction [Good!]
06.22 Al Gore: battle against climate change is like fight against slavery [videos]
06.22 Top global banks still lend billions to extract fossil fuels [who holds the debt when the music stops?]
06.22 Australian health groups urge coal phase-out and strong emissions reduction
06.22 Tories aim to block full EU ban on bee-harming pesticides [what could go wrong...]
06.22 Route to recovery: how people overcome an opioid addiction
06.21 U.S. Coastal Cities Will Flood More Often and More Severely, Study Warns
06.21 London mayor issues emergency air quality alert amid heatwave
06.21 Exxon, BP and Shell back carbon tax proposal to curb emissions
06.21 Climate goals: inside California's effort to overhaul its ambitious emissions plan
06.20 We Can’t Fight Climate Change if We Keep Lying to Ourselves
06.20 A third of the world now faces deadly heatwaves as result of climate change
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The Daily Howler
06.24 Elizabeth Warren Says Key Thing to Know About Trumpcare Bill: 'This Is Blood Money' [video]
06.24 How the Senate's Health-Care Bill Would Cause Financial Ruin for People With Preexisting Conditions
06.24 Watch Elizabeth Warren nail exactly what Planned Parenthood does — and why we need it
06.24 Late-night hosts blast Trumpcare: 'Needless suffering for low and middle-income people'
06.23 THE INTELLECTUAL UNDERPINNING OF A “MEAN” REPUBLICAN PARTY
06.23 Single-Payer Healthcare for California Is, In Fact, Very Doable
06.23 Why The Koch Brothers Have So Much Influence On Trump: It Starts With Pence
06.23 Thomas Frank on the Demise of the Democratic Party [15:52 video; excellent, make full screen]
06.23 Exxon, Stephen Hawking, greens, and Reagan’s advisors agree on a carbon tax
06.23 Obama attacks Republican health bill as 'massive transfer of wealth' to the rich
06.22 Industry Was Doubly Generous With These 13 GOP Senators Now Drafting Trumpcare
06.22 3 mn will own 70% of US Wealth generated by 320 mn by 2021
06.22 Is American Childhood Creating an Authoritarian Society?
06.22 Leftwing Democrats say Jon Ossoff loss shows 'massive failure' of party's elites
06.23 This North Carolina Law Is Straight Out of “The Handmaid’s Tale” [legal immorality...]
06.23 The Supreme Court Defends the Integrity of U.S. Citizenship
06.23 'I buried my smallest child under a bush': starvation and sorrow in South Sudan
06.23 Exclusive: Fake online stores reveal gamblers' shadow banking system
06.22 Top global banks still lend billions to extract fossil fuels [who holds the debt when the music stops?]
06.21 Gaius Publius: Finding the Greater Fool — The Elite Logic Behind “Going Over the Climate Cliff”
06.19 European commission to crack down on offshore tax avoidance [Trump is likely to further facilitate tax avoidance]
06.24 Turkish schools to stop teaching evolution, official says [“Stupid is as stupid does.” – Forrest Gump]
06.24 In a world ruled by rumour, it is vital that scientists speak with humility and clarity
06.24 Only 2% of US Politicians Actually Want to Stop Arming Terrorists — Here’s Why [our pro-gun culture spillith over]
06.23 Iran nuclear chief warns US over support for Saudi Arabia
06.23 Rival groups vie for supremacy as fight against Isis reaches tipping point
06.23 Farms hit by labour shortage as migrant workers shun 'racist' UK
06.22 Israel vs. the United Nations: The Nikki Haley Doctrine
06.22 All Signs from Trump Point to a Coming Conflict with Iran [war doesn't "fix" anything; it can only make more war]
06.22 You Do Not Think Alone [be selective of what and who influences your "hive mind"]
06.21 Trump's silence after the London mosque attack speaks volumes
06.21 Drive to get children back to school failing worldwide
06.20 Power Causes Brain Damage [The powerful could mentally put their OCD-for-power aside to have empathy (again?) if they tried]
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STRONG COMMENTARY:
On Constitution Day: Talk of Impeachment and Rumors of War
I spoke on the morning of Sept. 17, along with John Nichols of the Nation, David Green of Hofstra, former federal prosecutor and author Elizabeth de la Vega, and long time anti-war activist Marcus Raskin. Later, in the afternoon, a second group of people spoke on the same topic, including veteran former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, Jennifer van Bergen (who first exposed Bush's secret "signing statements"), Michael Avery, president of the National Lawyers Guild, and former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman (D-NY).
And yet, scarcely one generation later, the threat of presidential abuse of power is back, including the same crime of illegal spying--this time more seriously than before.
Holtzmen observed that when Nixon was ordered by the Supreme Court to produce the tape recordings that the government had learned had been made in the Oval Office, after some hesitation, he agreed, and his fate was sealed. This time, she suggested ominously, Bush and his gang might decide to ignore orders from the Supreme Court.
As the NLG's Mike Avery noted, at that point, the only remaining recourses for the American People would be impeachment, or Thomas Jefferson's other remedy: "revolution."
"It would appear," one well-connected Washington source informed me after hearing about the Naval maneuvers, "that the Bush administration's internal polling is telling them that they are in serious trouble in November and that they are getting desperate."
This time, though, such a desperate, jingoistic strategy may not work. In fact, if such an act of unprovoked war leads Iran to unleash Shi'ia militias in Iraq against American forces, it will lead to an exponential increase in American casualties at a time that Americans are massively turning against that war.
Crucial in determining which way things would go is how Democrats respond to news of a new war in the offing. If they run true to form and start cheering for more war, they will have nailed the coffin shut on the Democratic Party as a functioning political organization. If they finally stand up against this abuse of American power and say no to yet another Bush war, the end to this nightmare could be in sight.
And which way the Democrats react will depend on what the American people do between now and any new Bush war.
As McGovern said darkly, "We have only seven weeks to act to stop this from happening."
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This story was published on September 18, 2006.
