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On Monday, Vice President Dick Cheney appointed his legal counsel, David Addington, to be his new chief of staff following the resignation of Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Addington once wrote the war on terorrism has rendered the Geneva Conventions "obsolete." We speak with investigative reporter Murray Waas and hear former Ambassador Joseph Wilson speak out on the outing of his wife, CIA operative Valerie Plame....

A Call for Everyone, and Especially People Dispersed from New Orleans, to Act on Nov 2nd to Drive Out the Bush Regime by Malik Rahim, Common Ground Collective, New Orleans...

As part of their coverage before and immediately after the October 31 Supreme Court nomination of federal appeals court judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., CNN and National Public Radio (NPR) featured commentary from Lawrence Lustberg, a criminal defense lawyer and acquaintance of Alito who claimed on NPR that Alito "will not overrule precedent lightly" and who on CNN openly supported the nomination. However, neither NPR nor CNN challenged Lustberg with prior statements he has made about Ali...

World Can’t Wait! Drive Out the Bush Regime has called for nationwide protests and student walkouts on Nov. 2, the first anniversary of Bush's "re-election." At last count people in 67 cities, at 43 colleges and universities, and 90 high schools (at last count) will leave work and school and gather in the city centers to declare No! This Regime Does Not Represent Us! and to launch a movement to drive Bush from power. (www.worldcantwait.org). San Francisco convergence point is Civic ...

President Bush nominated federal appeals judge Samuel Alito Jr. to the Supreme Court Monday, just four days after Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination. The 55-year-old Alito is widely seen as a judicial conservative who has been nicknamed "Scalito" for his philosophical similarities to Justice Antonin Scalia. In 1991, Alito backed a Pennsylvania law that required women to inform their husbands before they sought an abortion. His support came in the form of a dissenting vote in the ...

By STEVEN HIGGS...

Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination Thursday to be a Supreme Court justice. She had come under intense criticism from the Christian Right and many Republican senators. We have a roundtable discussion on Miers’ withdrawal and the political implications, and what may lie ahead in the next nomination....

The indictment in the CIA leak investigation of Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, has deepened the political crisis of the Bush administration, while further exposing the methods of criminality and conspiracy that extend from the White House on down....

Months ago it was apparent that the Bush administration was losing its initiative and momentum. Bush didn’t walk with the same old swagger and his much-vaunted political capital had lost much of its value. Tensions and fissures were evident in the Republican Party — not an open rebellion by any means, but substantial enough that the single-mindedness that had been the signature of the Bush administration and Republican Party was less evident. At the same time, the resistance to the admi...

The withdrawal of the nomination of White House Counsel Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court is a powerful demonstration of the Bush administration’s extraordinary dependence on ultra-right and Christian fundamentalist elements, who enjoy effective veto power over key government decisions....