‘Your government is moving each day closer to a theocracy, where a narrow and hateful brand of Christian fundamentalism will rule.’ Far-right Christian fundamentalist leaders are demanding the Bush regime speed up…
The Abu Ghraib files
Now released on Salon.com 279 photographs and 19 videos from the Army’s internal investigation record a harrowing three months of detainee abuse inside the notorious prison — and make clear that many…
Christian Fascists Taunt Democrats Abandon of Feingold’s Censure Motion
By Stanley Rogouski, 3/17/06 Russ Feingold is a third term Senator from Wisconsin, a Rhodes Scholar, and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Wisconsin and Harvard Law School. He’s…
Reasons to March
By MIKE MARQUSEE, 3/17/06, CounterPunch.org Three years ago, at one of the huge demonstrations that preceded the invasion of Iraq, I ran into a 16-year-old friend, visibly excited by the size of…
Civil War in America
By Margaret Kimberly, The Black Commentator. Posted March 17, 2006. Every year the Sons of Confederate Veterans use the North Carolina statehouse to celebrate their annual Confederate flag day ceremony. It has…
Rabbi Sounds the Alarm on the “Christocrats”
Revolution #039, March 19, 2006, posted at revcom.us Rabbi James Rudin is the senior interreligious advisor of the American Jewish Committee and a member of that organization’s board of governors. He’s the…
Pledges and Punishment
By Esther Kaplan, AlterNet. Posted March 15, 2006. The director of an HIV prevention program explains how the Christian Right’s growing control over U.S. foreign aid policy may cost Indian prostitutes their…
House OKs birth control funding ban
Low-income women would be affected By KIT WAGAR, 3/16/06, Kansas City Star JEFFERSON CITY ( The Missouri House voted Wednesday to ban state funding of contraceptives for low-income women and to prohibit…
In Vermont, efforts to impeach Bush fan emotions
By Jason Szep Thu Mar 16, 8:47 AM ET NEWFANE, Vermont (Reuters) – Known for picturesque autumn foliage, colonial inns, maple sugar and laid-back villages, Vermont seldom makes much of an impact…
Do You Feel Safe With This Man’s Finger on the Button? – The Bush Doctrine of Nuclear Preemption
By GREG MOSES, 3/17/06, CounterPunch.org As our ears prick to the drumbeat of Bush v. Iran, a highly respected researcher from the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) warns that Washington is edging…