Sat, 2 August 2008  Colorado "Fusion Center" to Step Up Intelligence Gathering During DNC; US Northern Command to Play RoleFederal and state law enforcement officials in Colorado plan to increase intelligence operations during the Democratic National Convention in Denver and run a fusion center, where intelligence analysts will collect and analyze reports of suspicious activity. Civil rights advocates fear the fusion center could enable unwarranted spying on protesters exercising their First Amendment rights at the convention. [includes rush transcript] Category: Alternative media -- posted at: 4:51 AM Comments[0] | ||
Sat, 2 August 2008  July 26, 2008 Kucinich gets his day (watch video)ANP: Hearing on allegations of Bush administration's misconduct and cause for 'impeachment' Since June 9, 2008, Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich has pushed for impeachment proceedings against President Bush. Last week, in an effort to placate Kucinich, the House Judiciary Committee finally agreed to hold a hearing July 25, 2008. The night before the hearing, Kucinich sat down with ANP in an exclusive one-on-one interview. TranscriptKUCINICH: —and for the American people. Category: Alternative media -- posted at: 4:32 AM Comments[0] | ||
Fri, 1 August 2008 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Defends Her Opposition to Impeachment: “If Somebody Had a Crime that the President Had Committed, That Would Be a Different Story.”On Monday, Rep. Pelosi appeared on ABC’s The View and suggested impeachment is off the table because there is no evidence President Bush has committed any criminal acts. We ask Rep. Dennis Kucinich for a response. Kucinich recently introduced a single article of impeachment against President Bush. The article accuses Bush of deceiving Congress to authorize the invasion of Iraq. [includes rush transcript] JUAN GONZALEZ: We’re talking about the use of public
subsidies for sports stadiums. We’re joined from Washington, D.C. by
Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich. And here in New York, we have Bettina
Damiani, the project director of Good Jobs New York, and Neil deMause,
author of Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money into Private Profit.
But, Congressman Kucinich, you’ve been leading the fight for
impeachment, and I know you have to go very soon, so I wanted to ask
you about an interview with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that aired on The View earlier this week. She was asked about impeachment.
JOY BEHAR: You’ve ruled against impeaching George
Bush and Dick Cheney, and now Kucinich is trying to pass that. Why do
you insist on not impeaching these people, so that the world and
America can really see the crimes that they’ve committed? REP. NANCY PELOSI: Well, I think that it—I think it was
important, when I became Speaker—and it’s, by the way, a very important
position—President, Vice President, Speaker of the House—I saw it as my
responsibility to try to bring a much divided country together to the
extent that we could. I thought that impeachment would be divisive for
the country. In terms of what we wanted—set out to do, we wanted to raise the
minimum wage, give the biggest increase in veterans benefits to
veterans in the seventy-seven-year history, then pass research for stem
cell research, all of that. This week, we’re going to pass equal pay
for equal work. It has been a long time in coming—pay equity. We’re
going to pass legislations for product safety, for toys that children
put in their—there’s an agenda that you have to get done. You have to
try to do it in a bipartisan way. The President has to sign it. If somebody had a crime that the President had committed, that would be a different story.
JOY BEHAR: Can they still do it after he’s out? BARBARA WALTERS: When we—when I interviewed you last year, you had just begun, and you were going to clean up the mess, remember? REP. NANCY PELOSI: And we did. BARBARA WALTERS: You look around this country, 75 percent of the country—forget George Bush—thinks that Congress is doing a lousy job. ELISABETH HASSELBECK: I think it’s 91 percent now. REP. NANCY PELOSI: Well,
I don’t disagree with that, because largely it’s predicated on ending
the war in Iraq. That’s the main question, and we were not successful.
In our House of Representatives, I’m very proud of our members, because
they voted overwhelmingly over and over again to bring the war to an
end, bring the troops home safely and soon, sent it to the Senate, and
it hits a dead end. But in terms of that particular standard, I would say I disapprove, as well. But we do—we passed some of the things I just mentioned, the energy bill. We worked in a bipartisan way, Innovation Agenda. We have to create jobs, expand healthcare, protect the American people and educate our children. And you can’t do that if you’re trying to impeach the President at the same time, unless you have the goods that this president committed crimes. JUAN GONZALEZ: That was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Congressman Kucinich, your response to her take on the situation with impeachment?
REP. DENNIS KUCINICH: Well, now that I’ve heard that the
Speaker is looking for evidence that crimes may have been committed, I
certainly want to direct her attention to the thirty-five articles of
impeachment that I presented, which assert quite directly that crimes
have been committed, including taking this nation into a war, an
illegal war, based on lies; including the deaths of over a million
innocent Iraqis, which constitute a war crime; including wiretapping,
rendition, torture, illegal detention. There are many examples of laws
that have been broken. And the reason why the Judiciary Committee should hold a hearing
on the impeachment itself is because there needs to be a public airing
of this. So, I have a great deal of respect for Speaker Pelosi, and I
think that since she made that statement on The View, there’s
an opportunity now for us to come forward and to lay all the facts out
so that she can reconsider her decision not to permit the Judiciary
Committee to proceed with a full impeachment hearing. I just want to state this, that I appreciate that she consented
to a hearing on Friday. It was a six-hour hearing, over a dozen
witnesses. Twenty-four members of Congress attended. It’s being taken
seriously. I think the idea that nothing can be done right now because
we’re on the eve of an election raises questions about our
constitutional responsibility to be a check and balance to
administration abuse of power. If in fact we’re in a war that’s based
on lies, and we have thousands of troops whose lives are on the line
every day, we owe it to them and we owe it to the American people to
set straight the public record. And then, whether or not it results in
the President being removed from office before the end of his term is
another matter. I want to further say that with the possibility of a war in Iran
in the offing, a war against Iran, a war that would be a result of a
pre-emptive attack, much like the one that the United States launched
against Iraq, it becomes very important that we hold this
administration to the highest standard of having to verify the
statements they make to take us into one war and to try to take us into
another. JUAN GONZALEZ: Well, Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, thank you, once again, for joining us.
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Thu, 31 July 2008
Obama sells Europeans on Afghan war European public hails Obama as the anti-Bush, but politicians cool to idea of more troops in Afghanistan The Guardian headline said “Obama gets rock star welcome” One Berliner called it “an Anti-Bush rally”, and the Financial Times Deutshland called it an “ad for the war on terror “. In a speech laden with cold war rhetoric, Democratic Presidential hopeful Barack Obama stood before more than 200,000 people in Berlin on thursday and summoned Europeans and Americans to work together on many issues, from Iraq and Afghanistan to the “War on Terror” and climate change. Andreas Zumach of Die Tageszietung: European politicians are somewhat glad about the general statements Obama made on the need for improving the Euro-Atlantic alliance again. They have read about what he said on more cooperation on global issues like climate change, on the US in the future more obeying international law. They are very wary, especially the ones in Germany, France, and the other big European countries, about the clear message he sent on Afghanistan, where he very clearly and undiplomatically said, "We need more of your troops in Afghanistan," which means more war fighting done by the Europeans in a war that's bound to be lost. More critiques of liberal infatuation with vagues promises of change: Pepe Escobar: Obama's foreign policy team is Clinton's team Category: Alternative media -- posted at: 3:26 AM Comments[0] | ||
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