By Michael Ventura, Letters at 3AM

Turnabout on (and ignorance of) Iran. Before Bush failed to get so much as a censure of Iran from the G8 participants, word was that “Israeli intelligence officials say they have evidence that the Hezbollah attack was partly ordered by Iran” (The New York Times, July 16, Week in Review, p.1). Clearly, action against Iran was in the works. After Bush found no support for that, the tune changed. For some days Iran was hardly mentioned; then, perhaps to quiet neo-cons demanding blood, U.S. intelligence officials let drop that “available intelligence does not offer proof that Iran inspired or directed kidnappings and rocket launchings that set off the war with Israel” (The New York Times, Aug. 5, p.7). In fact, regarding Iran, we don’t know much. A “senior U.S. diplomat” told Time magazine’s Joe Klein: “We really don’t have any real idea about what goes on inside that government” (Time, July 24, p.31). For nearly 30 years Iran has been a major player in the region, yet we remain in the dark about how Iran makes decisions. Incredible, isn’t it? And incredibly dangerous, for us and for all who depend upon our judgment.

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By Rebecca Ransom

WASHINGTON-In a reversal last week, Washington’s town counsel, attorney David Miles, advised the Board of Selectmen that it is not obligated to allow a special town meeting on a resolution calling for the impeachment of President George W. Bush.

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By Timothy Sexton

Impeachnet.net is calling on all supporters of freedom, civil rights, intelligence and peace to do something special for 24 hours beginning at noon eastern time on September 1.  Simply replace the home page of your web site or blog with one image.  A black background and white letters saying simply Impeach.Go here to find out more and get the html code.

What is the use, you ask?  What will it accomplish?  Nothing.  Except for showing how much support is out there for removal of the criminal in the White House.  Nothing, except perhaps getting whatever distracting celebrity news that will take away from the crimes of Bush on September 1 pushed back down the list of stories covered on the news as the conservative media finds themselves unable to ignore this real news when every reporter is faced with the word impeachment when he’s surfing the net looking for information on Scott Peterson’s wife’s bathroom habits.

It is designed solely to bring to the public consciousness the fact that the leader of our country has committed innumerable impeachable offenses, yet so far has faced less Congressional oversight for the real crimes committed while President than Bill Clinton faced for the crimes he never committed in the Whitewater affair before becoming President .

What a sad state of affairs that our GOP-controlled Congress has spent less than one one-hundredth the amount of money investigating the crimes of Pres. Bush than they did investigating a land deal in Arkansas.  Still proud of your Congressman?  Still want to send him or her back for another shot at destroying America?

Impeach.

Now.

All of them.

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By Sarah Karush

DETROIT - A federal judge on Thursday struck down

U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor in Detroit is the first judge to rule on the legality of the National Security Agency’s program, which the White House says is a key tool for fighting terrorism that has already stopped attacks.

“Plaintiffs have prevailed, and the public interest is clear, in this matter. It is the upholding of our Constitution,” Taylor wrote in her 43-page opinion.

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By Riana V. Robert and Lauren Sullivan

Can the American people impeach a president who has started an illegal war of aggression in defiance of the United Nations, spied on the American people, authorized the kidnapping and torture of innocent civilians, and repeatedly declared his intent to ignore laws enacted by Congress? All across the country, dozens of grassroots groups, city councils, and state legislatures are initiating impeachment inquiries and actions in response to the crimes committed by President George W. Bush and members of his administration. In May 2006, the Santa Barbara Impeachment Coalition (SBIC) joined their ranks.

When the president was inaugurated, he took a solemn oath with his hand on the Bible, to uphold the Constitution and the laws of the land. No sooner had George W. Bush taken office than he and his administration began violating laws and subverting the Constitution. Here are just a few of the offenses committed by the president: relying on torture and lies to cover up summary arrests and detentions devoid of the constitutional right to due process (there are currently about 660 people held at Guantánamo Bay alone, the vast majority of them without charge); lying about weapons of mass destruction to mislead Congress and the American people into an illegal and unjustified war on Iraq; and authorizing domestic surveillance of the American people without constitutionally required warrants.

The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) recently won a major victory against the Bush administration in the case Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, in which the Supreme Court ruled that the military commissions set up by the Bush administration to try Guantánamo detainees were unconstitutional. The CCR has now released a book called Articles of Impeachment Against George W. Bush and a short video with highlights from the book.

It is essential that the people take action because Congress, dominated by Bush supporters, is unwilling to act. Our system of checks and balances is not working. Bush is wielding powers that do not reside in the executive branch of our government. We must remember that “eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” In America today, we are in danger of losing our liberty and becoming a tyranny due to the intolerable abuse of power by this president. We are in a grave crisis. If we do nothing, the struggle to remain a constitutional democracy is lost. The Constitution provides the means to deal with the egregious misbehavior of those holding high office. We must pursue impeachment because our very liberty depends on it. If “We, the American people” come together in great enough numbers, Congress will be forced to act.

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UPDATED! Followup on August 17.2006 

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By Dan Dorfman

The stock market may be holding up admirably well in the face of many uncertainties, but the risks just won’t quit popping up. One of the newest is the threat of a political move to impeach President Bush if the Democrats can achieve substantial gains in the midterm elections and recapture control of the House and Senate.

This impeachment scenario, which may strike some as far-fetched, is on the mind of a well-regarded Boston investment strategist, Bill Rhodes, the head of Rhodes Analytics and a former Merrill Lynch strategist who doles out investment advice to a lineup of institutional clients with roughly $1 trillion in assets.

November’s midterm elections are inching closer, and the message from one political pundit after another is that if they were held today, the Democrats would stand a good shot of regaining control of the House and Senate. The chief reasons are the public’s growing opposition to the war in Iraq and the president’s sliding ratings in the polls.

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By Ted Lang

I am an American, but I hate my government for not only doing nothing to stop the totally unnecessary slaughter of innocent and unarmed men, women, children, the aged and the infirmed in Lebanon, but for encouraging, aiding and abetting the holocaust as well in supplying additional precision weaponry to carry out the mass murders. Bush may be heavily guarded and feel secure in his bunkers in Crawford and Washington, but he’s got an unavoidable rendezvous with some serious reckoning. And the sooner this serious reckoning takes place, the better for all Mankind. Bush must be impeached immediately. If this doesn’t happen, we will assuredly be irreversibly enmeshed in Bush, Israel and Great Britain’s plot to ignite World War III and to launch the New World Order global government.To facilitate impeachment, and to bring the Bush crime and war machine to a halt, the American political environment must now be inundated with the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. “Politics-as-usual” or PAU will be the prescription to bring about the most horrendous conditions in America since those early dark days of the American Revolution, when the impending crushing force of the world’s most powerful nation, Great Britain, was about to be unleashed on the people of the American colonies.

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By Phyllis Sides

RACINE, WI — The Racine Coalition for Peace and Justice is launching a petition drive to impeach President Bush and the Vice President Dick Cheney.

The group is to meet tonight to nail down the language to be used in an impeachment petition.

“We made the decision but the details are not in place,” said coalition member Dick Kinch. “We’ve not decided on the text of the petition but it will probably include both Bush and Cheney. We hope to have a resolution on the spring ballot.”

The subject came up when the group was collecting signatures for the petition to bring the troops home from Iraq.

“We were collecting signatures and many people said they would like to sign a petition for impeachment,” Kinch said. “It encouraged us to think about it. And by us, I mean the Racine Coalition for Peace and Justice. It is something we would like to do.”

Racine probably would be the first place in Wisconsin to mount such a campaign, he said. Although talk of impeachment is not limited to Racine or Wisconsin, Kinch said. “I’ve run across several people, in my travels around the country, who’ve wondered why there hasn’t been an impeachment movement,” he said.

The coalition is sponsoring a series of presentations in September in support of the petition drive. The first of the series, “Endless War: The Case for Impeachment”, will be presented by Julie Enslow of Peace Action Wisconsin, Sept. 13 at 7 p.m. at Olympia Brown Unitarian Universalist Church, 625 College Ave. The second will be a presentation by Matt Rothschild of The Progressive magazine, 7 p.m., at the Racine Library.

Details on a third event are to be announced.

For more information, call Kinch at (262) 638-0204.

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By Steven Thomma

WASHINGTON - Former Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower once dismissed centrist politics with a wisecrack he’d heard from a farmer: “Ain’t nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.”

This summer, there’s no more dangerous place for a politician to be than the middle of the road. Primary voters and interest groups in both parties are pushing hard for partisan purity and punishing those who stray too close to the center - or the dreaded other side.

Next up is Sen. Lincoln Chafee, R-R.I., who faces a strong conservative challenge from Cranston Mayor Steve Laffey in a Sept. 12 primary.

Chafee, considered his party’s best hope to hold the seat in the liberal state, has nonetheless come under a barrage of criticism from conservatives. They’re weary of his support for abortion rights, federal spending and gay marriage and opposition to the Bush tax cuts.

Even if they subsequently lose the seat to a Democrat, some conservatives say it would be worth it to get rid of Chafee. Says the Club for Growth, an anti-tax group opposing Chafee: “It wouldn’t be much of a loss if a new Democrat senator were elected, as he would vote much the same as Chafee does now.”

It might not make a difference to them on the tax issue. But nationally, this could be a close election where the loss of Rhode Island might turn over the entire Senate to Democratic control.

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source: The San Francisco Bay Guardian Online

EDITORIAL Mainstream media reporters and pundits, as well as our cynical colleagues at the SF Weekly and the rest of their corporate alt-weekly chain, love to bash the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and the city councils of other Bay Area cities for passing resolutions on big questions like war, human rights, or impeachment.

We don’t share that view. Resolutions take almost no time or effort to pass, yet they are important barometers of popular political sentiment, tools that are particularly important given how both major political parties have shown more willingness to listen to their corporate backers than their lowly constituents. People need avenues to make their voices heard without the filters imposed by the leadership of the Democratic and Republican parties.

That’s why we’re happy that citizens in both San Francisco and Berkeley will get a chance to vote this November on the question of whether Congress should initiate impeachment proceedings against President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for their many high crimes: fraudulently leading the United States into war, illegally spying on Americans, torturing enemies, claiming unconstitutional executive power, violating binding treaties, and engaging in war crimes and profiteering, among others.

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