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Ralph Nader: Talkin' About the "I"-Word

Ralph Nader: Talkin' About the "I"-Word: "Yet the case for impeachment is so strong that, recently, hardly a day goes by without more disclosures which strengthen any number of impeachable offenses that could form a Congressional action under our Constitution. An illegal war, to begin with, against our Constitution which says only Congress can declare war. An illegal war under domestic laws, and international law, and conducted illegally under international conventions to which the US belongs, should cause an outcry against this small clique of outlaws committing war crimes who have hijacked our national government."

Is our president a liar?

Is our president a liar?: "
'He is President, Not A King' Russ Feingold

Was he lying then or is he lying now? Either way he is a liar.

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Sen. Robert Byrd: No President is Above the Law

Sen. Robert Byrd: No President is Above the Law: "The President claims that these powers are within his role as Commander in Chief. Make no mistake, the powers granted to the Commander in Chief are specifically those as head of the Armed Forces. These warrantless searches are conducted not against a foreign power, but against unsuspecting and unknowing American citizens. They are conducted against individuals living on American soil, not in Iraq or Afghanistan. There is nothing within the powers granted in the Commander in Chief clause that grants the President the ability to conduct clandestine surveillance of American civilians. We must not allow such groundless, foolish claims to stand."

Bush Trashes Constitution, Few Notice

Another Day in the Empire: "Before he was “elected” (appointed) in 2000, Bush “joked” about dictatorship and said it would be fine and dandy by him so long as he was the dictator. Now we have this authoritarian cretin on record trashing the Constitution and the corporate media does not take note and for obvious reason—the corporate media is owned by the same “free trade” (unhindered depredation) marauders and amoral charlatan neolibs that own the government and just about every whore (politician) in Congress."

Bush Threatens to Unleash Terrorists

Another Day in the Empire: "CIA-MI6-Mossad terrorists, the sort who fantastically plot complicated and impossible (for goat herders) terror attacks from caves in one of the most backward and poverty-stricken countries in the world. As we know, if we pay attention, all of the Bush era terror attacks—striking New York, Washington, Bali, Madrid, and London—were executed by intelligence “services,” using dim bulb Muslim patsies as fall guys in order to kindle World War IV, as envisioned by the Straussian neocons and their Israeli Zionist mentors."

Paul Craig Roberts: the Defenders of Torture

Paul Craig Roberts: the Defenders of Torture: "The reason that the Bush administration and the neocons defend torture is that, having launched an illegal invasion and created an American police state, they are desperate for 'evidence' of the terrorist threat in order to justify their illegal and unconstitutional policies.

The only way to obtain this 'evidence' is to torture people until they confess to the plots that are invented for them. A steady stream of confessed 'terrorists' serves to justify the police state that has been created. "

Capitol Hill Blue: Bush on the Constitution: 'It's just a goddamned piece of paper'

Capitol Hill Blue: Bush on the Constitution: 'It's just a goddamned piece of paper': "“I don’t give a goddamn,” Bush retorted. “I’m the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.”

“Mr. President,” one aide in the meeting said. “There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution.”

“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”

I’ve talked to three people present for the meeting that day and they all confirm that the President of the United States called the Constitution “a goddamned piece of paper.”"

Top 11 reasons Dubya planned to bomb the al-Jazeera network

Too Stupid To Be President: "Top 11 reasons Dubya planned to bomb the al-Jazeera network

11. Wanted to send a message to CBS.

10. Ran out of anthrax.

9. Promised Rupert Murdock a lucrative, 'no-bid' contract.

8. Al-Jazeera White House correspondent tried to ask a 'follow-up' question.

7. It's only terrorism when it's done to us.

6. Attorney General advised that he couldn't torture the al-Jazeera staff.

5. Al-Jazeera website linked to a flash animation depicting Dubya as dim-witted.

4. 'Philosophy of life' doesn't extend to journalists.

3. Thought he needed a diversion from the U.S. use of chemical weapons in Fallujah.

2. al-Jazeera ran colorized version of 'It's a Wonderful Life.'

1. Osama bin Laden wasn't there."

Nobel Laureate Pinter Assails Bush, Blair - Yahoo! News

Nobel Laureate Pinter Assails Bush, Blair - Yahoo! News: "In his lecture, which focused more on politics than literature, Pinter launched a ferocious tirade against Bush and Blair, saying they were responsible for tens of thousands of deaths in the Iraq war.

'How many people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a mass murderer and a war criminal? One hundred thousand?' he asked in a hoarse voice.

'We have brought torture, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder, misery, degradation and death to the Iraqi people and call it 'bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East,'' Pinter said.

The Nobel committee has not shied from rewarding writers who make a stand against authority, notably in rewarding the literature prize to Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn in 1970.

Horace Engdahl, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, introduced the lecture by saying Pinter was delivering 'his free words such as a writer has a right to say them.'

Pinter accused the United States of supporting 'every right wing military dictatorship in the world' after World War II, from Chile to the Philippines.

'The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them,' he said. 'It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It's a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.'"

Yes, Mr. Pinter, I, and those that visit this site often, know this all to be true.

Tire Giant Firestone Hit with Lawsuit over Slave-Like Conditions at Rubber Plantation - Yahoo! News

Tire Giant Firestone Hit with Lawsuit over Slave-Like Conditions at Rubber Plantation - Yahoo! News: "At Firestone, 'all of the workers are poverty-stricken Africans, enduring extremely inhuman conditions under the constant guard of American and now Japanese overseers who live in the finest houses in Liberia, looking down on the field hands from their verandahs and the company's private golf course,' the group says.

By contrast, 'most of the workers have never been off of the plantation and do not even know that the world has moved on and slavery has been abolished.'

The company denies the use of child labor and claims that its jobs are among the highest paying in Liberia. But right activists who have visited the plantation attest to the desperation and fear conveyed by Firestone's workers.

'I have seen six people living in one room, without any toilet, electricity, or running water,' Jerome Verdier, an environmental lawyer from Liberia, told OneWorld. 'The company has no justification whatsoever to keep on exploiting those people.'"

Dave Lindorff: US War Crimes List Keeps Growing

Dave Lindorff: US War Crimes List Keeps Growing: "In fact, an instruction manual used by the U.S. Army Command and General Staff School (CGSC) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, tells senior officers it is against the 'laws of war' to fire the incendiary weapon at human targets. This document, first disclosed by the UK Independent, reports that the Army manual 'makes clear that white phosphorus can be used to produce a smoke screen, but that 'It is against the law of land warfare to employ WP [white phosphorous] against personnel targets.''

So besides being a war crime, this is also a US crime."

Is there any doubt still, as to what this country has devolved into?

Paul Craig Roberts: the Grave Threat of the Bush Administration

Paul Craig Roberts: the Grave Threat of the Bush Administration: "On November 27 Walter Pincus reported in the Washington Post that the Pentagon is expanding its domestic surveillance activity and that all sorts of proposals are afoot to allow military agencies to spy on law-abiding Americans and to build secret dossiers on citizens. The demand for police state powers is said to be necessary in order to fight the 'war on terror.'"

Mike Whitney: the Pentagon's Domestic Spying Operation

Mike Whitney: the Pentagon's Domestic Spying Operation: "An alarmed Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore) said, 'We are deputizing the military to spy on law-abiding Americans in America. This is a huge leap without a congressional hearing'.

Is this the first time that the naïve Wyden realized that the war on terror is actually directed at the American people?

The expanded powers of the Pentagon were presented in a proposal by a presidential commission headed by Lawrence Silberman and former Senator Charles Robb, two members of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the 9-11 'whitewash' commission. The CFR, a 4,000 member amalgam of elites from the military, industry and media, was the driving force behind the Iraq war, as well as, enthusiastic advocates of the national security state. Their recommendations will allow the military to assume the traditional role of law enforcement and by giving it the authority to 'carry out domestic criminal investigations and clandestine operations against potential threats inside the United States'.

Oh, yeah; and the Pentagon will be involved in the 'apprehension, or detention of individuals suspected' of criminal offenses.

This is a giant step for removing dissidents and political enemies while further militarizing the country."

Niranjan Ramakrishnan: Questions for the President

Niranjan Ramakrishnan: Questions for the President: "12. Mr. President, some US government officials now admit, after initially denying it, that White Phosphorus was used in the Battle of Fallujah. Do you accept responsibility for its use, as Commander-in-Chief. If so, can you tell the American people what steps you are taking to punish the people who used it, given that its use by Saddam Hussein's forces was condemned by our own reports during the '80's?"