New Executive Order Could Lead to Endless Chain of Repression

July 20, 2007 By Matthew Rothschild If you go to an anti-war protest, and the Treasury Secretary claims you "pose a significant risk" of committing an act of violence, he can put a freeze on all your financial assets, including your home.

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Conyers: White House lied about Rove

"Our system of government does not allow the White House to demand this kind of blind faith and secrecy."

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David Bromwich: Character of G.W. Bush

More lies from the Bush administration---building up another false case to start another failed war. "Never wholly separate in your mind the merits of any political question from the men who are concerned it it." Edmund BurkeThe men occupying the White House have lost contact with reality.

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Firefighters Speak Out About Giuliani's Record In New York City

The firefighters in New York City have put together a video explaining their opposition to Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign. It's a powerful video in which firefighters explain how Giuliani's decisions put them at risk.

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Paul Begala: George W. Bush is One Tough Hombre

Mr. Bush is tough enough to invade a country that was no risk to America, causing tens of thousands of civilian deaths and shedding precious American blood in the process. Tough enough to sanction torture. Tough enough to order an American citizen arrested and held without trial.And we still have 567 days to go.

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Bush and Cheney walk, too

Even as the president confesses that Scooter Libby engaged in a cover-up -- after all, that was the verdict -- he completes the ultimate obstruction of justice in the Plame affair.

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Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment: You ceased to be the President of

From C&L: Keith Olbermann delivers arguably his most pointed and most powerful Special Comment yet on the ramifications of Bush’s commutation of Libby’s sentence.

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New NSA Whistleblower Speaks

A former member of U.S. military intelligence has decided to reveal what she knows about warrantless spying on Americans and about the fixing of intelligence in the leadup to the invasion of Iraq. She says she was given an orally communicated waiver to spy on US, Canadian, French, German, Australian, and British citizens without probable cause.

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