DENNIS KUCINICH ON MSNBC TUCKER NOV 06, 2007

11-09-2007 • YouTube

Dick Cheney Impeachment (The media are doing their best to keep this whole effort quiet)

Iraq War Opposition At Record High

11-9-2007 • HuffPo

Opposition to the war in Iraq has reached an all-time high. Support for the war in Iraq has dropped to 31% and the 68% who oppose the war is a new record. Despite the drop in violence in Iraq, only 1 in 4 Americans believes the U.S. is winning the wa

U.S. to release 9 Iranians it seized in Iraq

11-8-2007 • McClatchy News

The U.S. military soon will release nine Iranians it's holding in Iraq, including two held since January on suspicion that they'd funneled weapons and financial support to Iraqi Shiite Muslim militias.

1 in 7 Iraqis now displaced

11-8-2007 • McClatchy News

The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction offered a generally optimistic picture of security developments in Iraq in his quarterly report, but noted that while violence was down, 1 in 7 Iraqis — 14% of Iraq's population — is now displ

US fears Israeli strike against Iran over latest nuclear claim

11-8-2007 • London Times

A claim by President Ahmadinejad that Iran has 3,000 working uranium-enriching centrifuges sent a tremor across the world yesterday amid fears that Israel would respond by bombing the country’s nuclear facilities.

Turning Around the Antiwar Movement

11-8-2007 • AntiWar

The Neocons are still winning. Four and a half years after the Neocons tricked the nation into launching the most foolish military adventure in its history, the U.S. military continues to execute their policies. The occupation of Iraq and the six-yea

War Funds Absent From Pentagon Budget

11-7-2007 • AP

House and Senate negotiators agreed Tuesday on a $460 billion Pentagon bill that bankrolls pricey weapons systems and bomb-resistant vehicles for troops, but does not pay for combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Military may ease standards for recruits

11-6-2007 • AP

Faced with higher recruiting goals, the Pentagon is quietly looking for ways to make it easier for people with minor criminal records to join the military. This comes as the number of Army recruits needing waivers for bad behavior - such as trying dr

2007 is deadliest year for U.S. in Iraq

11-6-2007 • AP

The U.S. military announced the deaths of five more soldiers, making 2007 the deadliest year of the war for U.S. troops. At least 852 American military personnel have died in Iraq so far this year — the highest annual toll since the war began in 2003

Don't Enlist

11-04-2007 • Laurence M. Vance

All four of the services met or exceeded their recruiting goals for 2007, as did four of the six reserve components. Why?

Rice fails to calm Turkish leaders over rebels' presence in Iraq

11-4-2007 • McClatchy News

Turkish officials indicated Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had failed during two days of talks to persuade them not to send troops across the Iraqi border to attack Kurdish rebels based there. "All options are on the table. How, when and wh

Iraq conference looks to tensions on Turkey border

11-4-2007 • Reuters

Turkey stepped up pressure on the United States to help curb attacks by Kurdish rebels from northern Iraq as a conference on Saturday of Iraq's neighbors and major powers sought to lower cross-border tensions.

Pakistan Declares State of Emergency: Is This a Coup?

11-3-2007 • Mondoreb

Is the State of Emergency a coup? The Constitution is now suspended: is this an Army take-over? Though the Washington Post and others are saying President Musharraf is declaring a state of emergency, other sources are saying that Musharraf is not ful

US Air Force struck Syrian nuclear site

11-03-2007 • Jerusalem Post

The September 6 raid over Syria was carried out by the US Air Force, the Al-Jazeera Web site reported Friday. The Web site quoted Israeli and Arab sources as saying that two US jets armed with tactical nuclear weapons carried out an attack on a susp

Japan pulls out of Iraq War

11-1-2007 • AFP

Japan on Thursday ordered home ships engaged on a refuelling mission in the Indian Ocean, halting the close US ally's main role in the "war on terror" due to domestic opposition.

Bush equates ignoring his War on Terror with ignoring Lenin, Hitler

11-1-2007 • AP

President Bush compared Congress' Democratic leaders Thursday to people who ignored the rise of Lenin and Hitler early in the last century, saying "the world paid a terrible price" then and risks similar consequences for inaction today.

From the Desk of Donald Rumsfeld . . .

11-01-2007 • Washington Post

Staff Memos - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld argued that Muslims avoid "physical labor", "keep elevating the threat," "link Iraq to Iran" and develop "bumper sticker statements" to rally public support fo

Taliban overrun another Afghan district

11-01-2007 • Reuters

Taliban rebels have overrun a district centre in western Afghanistan as fighting took place in a nearby area captured earlier this week, a provincial official said on Thursday. The Taliban have massed in unusually large numbers in the last week in t

General Abizaid: Middle East Conflict Will Take 25-50 Years

11-01-2007 • Mondoreb & Ginn

Former commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, Army General John Abizaid, says the U.S. conflict in the Middle East could take up to 25-50 years to resolve and that America's been lucky not to have had another 9/11 incident.

No end to US's war budget woes

10-30-2007 • Asia Times

The costs of the overall US global "war on terror", including, but not limited to the Iraq war, just keep rolling along and piling up. The title "The Growing Budgetary Costs of the Iraq War" of an October 24 House Budget Committee

Iraqi Dam Seen In Danger of Deadly Collapse

10-30-2007 • Washington Post

The largest dam in Iraq is in serious danger of an imminent collapse that could unleash a trillion-gallon wave of water, possibly killing hundreds of thousands of people and flooding two of the largest cities in the country, according to the U.S. Arm

FOX News Sunday: Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran (VIDEO)

10-29-2007 • CrooksandLiars

It’s Sunday morning, so it’s time once again to let the FOX News panel of Brit Hume, Mara Liasson, Bill Kristol and Juan Williams to get their wargasm on.

Fearing Fear Itself

10-29-2007 • New York Times - By PAUL KRUGMAN

there isn’t actually any such thing as Islamofascism — it’s not an ideology; it’s a figment of the neocon imagination. The Term was created to transition from pursuing Osama bin Laden, who attacked America, to Saddam Hussein, who didn’t.

Congress Must Re-Assume War Powers, Lawmakers Say

10-29-2007 • CNSnews.com

At a press conference Thursday on Capitol Hill, Reps. Walter B. Jones (R-N.C.), William Delahunt (D-Mass.), Ron Paul (R-Texas) and Wayne Gilchrest (R-Md.) announced H. J. Res. 53, the Constitutional War Powers Resolution.

BREAKING--Bike Bomb: Terrorism Goes Low-Tech

10-29-2007 • Mondoreb

As if car bombs and IEDs weren't enough to worry about, terrorists have a new tool in their arsenal of destruction: the bike bomb. 24 Iraqi police officers killed and others were wounded. More on this deadly new threat

Guantanamo military lawyer breaks ranks to condemn 'unconscionable' detention

10-28-2007 • The Independent

An American military lawyer and veteran of dozens of secret Guantanamo tribunals has made a devastating attack on the legal process for determining whether Guantanamo prisoners are "enemy combatants". The whistleblower, an army major inside

Petraeus Throws Out the Book, Launches Airstrikes

10-28-2007 • Wired

According to the manual, "an air strike can cause collateral damage that turns people against the host-nation government and provides insurgents with a major propaganda victory. U.S. Air Force pilots in Iraq have flown 996 sorties involved dropp