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12.04 OECD educational report: Pisa fever is causing east Asia's demographic collapse [graphic, video]
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12.06 NAS: From Ice Sheet Collapse to Mass Extinctions, You’re not Ready for Climate Change
12.06 Large Companies Prepared to Pay Price on Carbon
12.06 Food Stamps Obesity and Dependency
12.05 Sustaining Resilience at Sea
12.05 The 2014 Shrimp Season In The Gulf Of Maine Has Been Canceled
12.04 Mass Die-Off of West Coast Sealife: Fukushima Radiation ... Or Something Else? [graphics, videos]
12.03 As Hospital Prices Soar, a Single Stitch Tops $500
12.03 Rising Slag Heaps of Petcoke in Midwest Arouse Environmental Concerns
12.03 Male and female brains wired differently, scans reveal [graphics]
12.03 New Study Finds Higher Methane Emissions from Fracking
12.03 Microplastics 'pose toxic threat to marine biodiversity'
12.02 Bad Eating Habits Start in the Womb
12.02 Leaked paper reveals UN split over war on drugs
12.06 Snowden and Greenwald: The Men Who Leaked the Secrets [very long]
12.05 Tabloid Espionage: Trial Exposes Darkest Corners of British Press
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12.07 Pushed Out of a Job Early
12.07 Obama & Holder Win Court Case, Keep Thouands in Prison Under Unfair 80s Crack Sentencing Laws
12.07 Fight the Right-Washing of Nelson Mandela’s Legacy
12.07 Listen Up, Budget Cutters. Austerity Can Lead to Blood on the Streets, Even in America
12.06 More Welfare for Wall Street: One in Three Bank Tellers Need Public Assistance
12.06 DEAD MAPS: How Americans Die [wonderfully clear interactive graphic]
12.05 GOP: No Climate Change because, Bible [videos]
12.05 Obama calls for action on 'profoundly unequal' economy
12.05 This 1 Quote Explains America's Biggest Problem Perfectly [video, graphics]
12.04 Top 10 Ways the US is the Most Corrupt Country in the World [3:06 video]
12.04 The Googlization of the Far Right: Why Is Google Funding Grover Norquist, Heritage Action and ALEC?
12.04 Why Obamacare Means Life and Death...for Both Political Parties
12.03 New Study Finds Higher Methane Emissions from Fracking
12.02 African elephant numbers 'could fall by one-fifth' due to poaching
12.07 Climate Summit Trap: Capitalism's March toward Global Collapse
12.06 Help-Wanted Ad Shows Depths Of Spain's Unemployment Problem [video]
12.05 Better Pay Now
12.05 Elizabeth Warren Attacks Beltway Powerhouse Third Way as Fronting for Wall Street
12.04 ALEC facing funding crisis from donor exodus in wake of Trayvon Martin row
12.04 Can Greece's SYRIZA Change Europe's Economy?
12.03 Looking for fraud? Don't look at food stamp recipients, look at Wall Street
12.07 Taking Charge: How African Women Are Making Major Gains
12.07 Silicon Savannah: Africa's Transformative Digital Revolution
12.07 HOW TO TELL WHEN THE N.S.A. IS LYING
12.07 France fights back against German 'Sick Man of Europe'
12.07 Only an inveterate optimist would say the worst must be over for the eurozone
12.07 What the Hell Just Happened in Córdoba? [videos]
12.06 Bitcoin Boom Spreads to IPhones With Mobile-Payment Apps [video]
12.06 Someone’s Been Siphoning Data Through a Huge Security Hole in the Internet [map graphic]
12.05 Cold Cases: Germany May Revise Up Statistics in Far-Right Killings
12.05 Internet Firms Step Up Efforts to Stop Spying
12.05 Putin Battles Europe for Ex-Soviet States Amid Kiev Protests
12.05 Europe repeating all the errors of Japan as deflation draws closer
12.04 Wal-Mart pays lawyer fees for dozens of executives in bribery probe
12.04 Americans are 5% of World Population, consume 1/4 of its Energy (infographic)
12.04 Sunni-Shiite Tensions soar in Lebanon; Hizbullah accuses Saudis in Iran Embassy Bombing [videos]
12.03 Cold War in the Pacific: China Escalates Tensions with Neighbors
12.02 Pentagon Approves Record Sale Of Advanced Arms To Countries At War
12.02 Are Europeans Giving Up on Europe?
12.02 Is religion based on fear?
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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.
