June 26, 2006 By Brendan Smith & Jeremy Brecher In a remarkable protest from inside the ranks of the military, First Lieut. Ehren Watada has become the Army’s first commissioned officer to publicly refuse orders to fight in Iraq on grounds that the war is illegal. The 28-year-old announced his decision not to obey… Read More »
ATTACK IRAN, IGNORE THE CONSTITUTION
April 21, 2006 By Brendan Smith & Jeremy Brecher During the 2004 election, George W. Bush famously proclaimed that he didn’t have to ask anyone’s permission to defend America. Does that mean he can attack Iran without having to ask Congress? A new Congressional resolution being drafted by Representative Peter DeFazio, a Democrat… Read More »
WHERE ARE THE GOOD AMERICANS?
February 20, 2006 Anyone who sees the photographs of the victims of the Nazi concentration camps must wonder how human beings could ever have allowed such things to happen. They must wonder how people of good will could have stood by while their government committed atrocities in their name. In the wake of that… Read More »
CONGRESS STIRS TO REIGN IN THE PRESIDENTCongress stirs to reign in the President
February 9, 2006 By Brendan Smith & Jeremy Brecher The constitutional crisis facing the United States has only deepened as a result of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s testimony on warrantless domestic spying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday. Karl Rove’s well-publicized scheme to tar critics of the secret NSA program as friends… Read More »
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