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05.22 The entire health care industry is panicking that Trump is about to blow up Obamacare
05.22 Air pollution linked to poor sleep, study finds
05.22 Trump's Fox News deputy national security advisor fooled him with climate fake news
05.21 Canada eases steps to open supervised drug injection sites amid opioid crisis
05.21 Canada First Nations reserve bars outsiders amid opioid crisis
05.20 Global Study Shows Americans Dying from Preventable Causes at Shocking Rates [“What a country!” —Yakov Smirnoff]
05.20 China claims breakthrough in mining 'flammable ice' [might greater release of methane to our atmosphere become a larger problem?]
05.20 ETP Spills Two Million Gallons of Drilling Material in Ohio
05.20 Arctic stronghold of world’s seeds flooded after permafrost melts
05.19 How Australia can use hydrogen to export its solar power around the world
05.19 Dirty diesel: why ships are the worst offenders
05.18 A new book ranks the top 100 solutions to climate change. The results are surprising.
05.18 Trump Wants to Cut Energy Dept's Renewables Budget. Big Time. [“Stupid is as stupid does.” – Forrest Gump.]
05.18 The older the doctor, the higher the patient mortality rate, study finds
05.18 Pesticide that Trump's EPA refused to ban blamed for sickening farm workers [fact-free 'emotional' government can have very high costs. this is a warning to change conduct before its too late.]
05.18 'The pill mill of America': where drugs mean there are no good choices, only less awful ones [governments must unleash research hospitals and pharmeceutical companies to design and manufacture safer and non-addictive recreational drugs to stop illegal drug trade's crime's social, health and prison costs]
05.18 Product designers 'must reduce Pringles factor' to boost recycling
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05.21 Nurses heckle Democratic leader, threaten legislators over health care [videos]
05.21 The small Texas city fighting to remain a ‘safe haven’ for immigrants [morally right & courageous]
05.20 Don’t Fear President Pence, Liberals. Welcome Him.
05.20 The degree of self-sabotage in the Trump White House is staggering
05.20 Billionaire Betsy DeVos wants to scrap student debt forgiveness. Surprised?
05.20 Comey to testify as more revelations pile pressure on Donald Trump
05.20 WILL ROBERT MUELLER EXPLORE TRUMP’S RUSSIAN BUSINESS TIES?
05.19 The Feds Had Been Moving Away From Mass Incarceration For Years. Then Jeff Sessions Came Along. [stay tuned]
05.20 Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt
05.20 The Malta Files: How the smallest EU country became a haven for global tax avoidance [why can't we play nice together?]
05.19 America's geography of wealth: the shrinking urban middle class visualised [animated bar chart] [tens of millions of families are living in increasing financial stress–Hillary ignored it and Trump made alt-promises (a.k.a.: lies)]
05.19 'Orwellian' and 'Bizarre': Warren Skewers Mnuchin for Doublespeak on Breaking Up Banks [4:45 video]
05.22 Revealed: Facebook's internal rulebook on sex, terrorism and violence
05.22 Big game hunter is crushed to death when an elephant he was hunting in Zimbabwe is shot and falls on top of him [a fitting death to an elephant killer]
05.22 Tensions rise as Uganda refugee policy is pushed to breaking point
05.22 Outnumbering refugees two to one: how the world ignores war's greatest scandal
05.22 Kashmir conflict shifts with top militant vowing fight is for an Islamic state
05.21 UK needs more immigrants to 'avoid Brexit catastrophe' [who benefits from bad "conservative" policy?]
05.21 THE LIGHTS ARE GOING OUT IN THE MIDDLE EAST [we suggest enticing a solar panel and battery manufacturers to locate in your countries to diversify economies and create jobs. use solar to empower yourselves...]
05.21 Rouhani’s victory is good news for Iran, but bad news for Trump and his Sunni allies
05.21 Budget analysis shows some Australian women hit with effective marginal tax rates of 100% ["conservatives" are cruel to the poor and desperate everywhere, to protect themselves from higher taxes]
05.21 Venezuela: 50th day of protests brings central Caracas to a standstill [who does interventions for countries? could the UN help more?]
05.21 Brexit and the coming food crisis: ‘If you can’t feed a country, you haven’t got a country’ [fear-based nationalism will become a costly problem]
05.21 Massimo Bottura and his global movement to feed the hungry
05.20 Let’s Skip the War Part—and Go Right to Reparations [powerful writing!]
05.20 Iran: Hassan Rouhani wins landslide in huge victory for reformists
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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.
