For the past few weeks a sometimes comic debate has been simmering in the American press, focused on the question of whether there is an Israeli lobby and, if so, just how powerful it is.
Four hundred thousand people coursing for miles through Chicago streets on May 1 - laughing, clapping, chanting joyously, bearing signs as heart-breakingly plaintive as "We Are Workers, Not Criminals" and "No Human Being Is Illegal" - came...
There are now 37 Congress Members backing an investigation into grounds for impeachment related to the war. Rep. Hilda Solis has joined the list of cosponsors of House Resolution 635, introduced by Congressman John Conyers. ...
George W. Bush likes to portray himself as a down-home Texan, the kind of guy you’d love to barbecue steaks or hunt with on the weekend. As most people know, Bush is in fact a child of Eastern establishment privilege, weaned in suburban...
AUSTIN, Texas -- Either the so-called "lobby reform bill" is the contemptible, cheesy, shoddy piece of hypocrisy it appears to be ... or the Republicans have a sense of humor.
As the Bush/neo-con kleptocracy disintegrates in a toxic cloud of
military defeat, economic bankruptcy, environmental disaster and
escalating mega-scandal, its attack on basic American freedoms---its
"New Totalitarianism"---has...