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Dean: AP; Holtzman: The Nation
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Former Nixon aide John Dean and former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman, who were foes during the early stages of the Nixon impeachment hearings in 1973, sound off in separate interviews on the prospects of impeaching President Bush. (Dean and Holtzman will debate the topic at UCLA on Sept. 13 at a Truthdig/The Nation Institute-sponsored event.)
Click here for the Dean interview
Click here for the Holtzman interview
Posted on Sep 12, 2006
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AP / Nick Ut
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By Blair Golson — John Dean, the man who famously blew the whistle on the Nixon White House during the Watergate hearings, gives a primer on the discussion he will conduct with former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman on Sept. 13 at UCLA, “Bush and the Potential for Impeachment.” Hint: Democrats shouldn’t go for impeachment unless they can convict Bush and remove him from office.
Posted on Sep 12, 2006
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Courtesy Lions Gate Films
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By Robert Scheer — John Lennon historian Jon Wiener supplements his Truthdig article on John Lennon and the Politics of Deportation in this interview with Truthdig editor Robert Scheer.
Posted on Sep 12, 2006
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By Robert Scheer — Bush was correct in saying Monday night that “Our nation is being tested in a way that we have not been since the start of the Cold War.” Unfortunately, it’s Bush’s administration that is testing us—with its relentless incompetence, attacks on our civil liberties and inability to acknowledge the bankruptcy of its policies.
Posted on Sep 12, 2006
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Courtesy Dennis and Elizabeth Kucinich
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By Robert Scheer — U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich and his wife, Elizabeth, discuss their recent personal peace-building initiative in Lebanon, where the congressman was the first U.S. official to tour the area and meet with the country’s leaders in the wake of its war with Israel. Truthdig Editor Robert Scheer conducts the interview.
Full audio version available
Posted on Sep 12, 2006
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Courtesy Lions Gate Films
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By Jon Wiener — The documentary “The U.S. vs. John Lennon,” which opens today, recounts President Richard Nixon’s campaign to deport the Beatle because of his antiwar activism. In this report, Jon Wiener, a Lennon historian who consulted on the film, writes that President Bush has gone much further than Nixon in using immigration law to get rid of noncitizens whom the White House doesn’t like.
Posted on Sep 12, 2006
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From C-SPAN.org
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By Blair Golson — Former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman, co-author of “The Impeachment of George W. Bush,” will be discussing that topic at UCLA on Wednesday, Sept. 13. She speaks with Truthdig about the president’s use of signing statements and how it will feel to share a stage at UCLA with onetime Nixon aide John Dean.
Posted on Sep 12, 2006
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By Marie Cocco — The fledgling congressional movement to strip power from Rumsfeld and shift it to the U.S. generals in Iraq is nothing more than a ploy started by a politician afraid of losing his job.
Posted on Sep 11, 2006
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To commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, we have assembled a collection of the most memorable and compelling footage related to that day—some of it iconic and unforgettable, like the images of the planes crashing into the towers, some of it more below the radar, like Jon Stewart’s first show after the attacks.
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By Joe Conason — The revelation that Richard Armitage first disclosed Valerie Wilson’s identity as a covert CIA operative doesn’t change the fact that it was Karl Rove and Scooter Libby who used that information in an attempt to punish Ms. Wilson for her husband’s criticism of the Bush administration.
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By Ellen Goodman — Here is something I never imagined five years ago: that America would lose its status as the good guy in the struggle against terrorism.
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By Marie Cocco — After five years, we must ask: How did the path from Ground Zero somehow lead us to Abu Ghraib? Where did the elemental goodness that inspired us in those first days and weeks after the attacks on New York and the Pentagon go?
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By Paul Cummins — The co-founder of the trailblazing Crossroads and New Roads schools in Santa Monica argues that if we can’t fund cuts in class sizes and improve educational resources, nothing else we do will matter a whit.
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By Robert Scheer — While Bush was distracted with Iraq, the patrons of terrorism were very much in business back where the 9/11 attack was hatched, turning Afghanistan into a narco-state that provides a lucrative source of cash for the “evildoers” Bush forgot about.
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By Marie Cocco — When it pays better to be old and retired than young and working, we can no longer indulge Bush’s fantasy that the economy is on the right track.
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By Jabari Asim — Upon her return from jail on a perjury conviction, the rapper Lil’ Kim almost made us believe that imprisonment had afforded her time to reflect upon the demeaning portrayal of women in the rap genre. Almost.
Posted on Sep 5, 2006
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In this week’s collection of our favorite videos: Bush talks nonsense; a mayor courageously speaks out against the war; Pat Buchanan longs for the white America he grew up in; Stewart and Colbert address the idol-worshipers of television; and Keith Olbermann gives Rumsfeld a Murrow-style smackdown.
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Truthdig salutes Rocky Anderson, the Salt Lake City mayor who spoke out against the war and reminded the world that “blind faith in bad leaders is not patriotism.” Anderson welcomed Bush to his city with a fiery protest speech and these searing lines: “A patriot does not tell people who are intensely concerned about their country to just sit down and be quiet; to refrain from speaking out in the name of politeness or for the sake of being a good host; to show slavish, blind obedience and deference to a dishonest, war-mongering, human-rights-violating president.”
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By Robert Scheer — Bill Clinton doesn’t seem to know the difference between getting mothers and their children off the welfare rolls and getting them out of poverty.
Posted on Aug 29, 2006
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AP / Jorge Rey
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By Tom Hayden — Veteran social activist Tom Hayden interviews Cuban National Assembly President Ricardo Alarcon.
Posted on Aug 29, 2006
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AP / Hasan Sarbakhshian
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By Parag Khanna — The semiautonomous northern region of Iraq is an island of relative stability in an ocean of turmoil. If America does not support Kurdistan’s independence, we may well lose our best shot of having a desperately needed secular ally in the region. New America Foundation fellow Parag Khanna, just back from the area, reports.
Posted on Aug 29, 2006
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By Marie Cocco — A new study reveals the “ownership society’’ of conservative dreams for the fraud it is; do-it-yourself financing doesn’t work when the upper class owns 80% of the nation’s stock.
Posted on Aug 28, 2006
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By Molly Ivins — Today’s antiwar crowd can take a lesson from the New Age cowboys who steer their steer by persuasion and suggestion, rather than macho eruptions of testosterone.
Posted on Aug 28, 2006
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By Jabari Asim — New Orleans’ sudden death was equivalent to the slow deaths of cities like Philadelphia, Newark and Oakland. So many of the same conditions exist; only the weather is different.
Posted on Aug 27, 2006
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By Andy Borowitz — When a reporter noted that the moon has no people at all, Mr. Cruise became argumentative: “Who told you that? Psychiatrists? Brooke Shields? That is such a load of cr--!”
Posted on Aug 25, 2006
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Bhutto’s Husband Wins Pakistan Presidency
