Bush Special Prosecutor is Top Question for Obama
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Obama Must Restore the Central Role of Federal Courts
By JOANNE MARINER | CounterPunch.org
January 2, 2009
Last week, the heads of four prominent civil liberties and human rights organizations — the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Amnesty …

2008: The Year That Was
By Glenn Greenwald | Salon.com
Jan. 1, 2009
Befitting an administration that has spent eight years obliterating America’s core political values, its final year in power — 2008 — was yet …

By David Swanson | LetsTryDemocracy.org
WHAT: A long column of figures dressed all in black with white death masks and bearing the names of those killed in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Palestine. The march will be followed …

Aren’t you proud of your country when you find out that we’re only one of two that refused to sign a treaty calling for a halt in production of cluster bombs, and when you hear …

On Feb. 20, one month after Barack Obama is sworn in as our next president, he must file a brief to let the Supreme Court, and the American people, know how he stands on the …

By Paul Berenson | The Paul Berenson Show
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!! We’ve been waiting a long time for change, and maybe now we’ll get it!
Gov. Blago appoints a Senator to replace Obama, but the …

Next week marks the beginning of the 111th Congress and I am ready to hit the ground running and get to work for you. On January 6, you are invited to stop by 318 …