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Velvet Revolution -- http://www.velvetrevolution.us -- has joined a broad coalition of veterans, peace, and political activist groups to announce a campaign today to urge that the U.S. Congress launch a formal investigation into whether President Bush has committed impeachable offenses in connection with the Iraq war....

In the same month that Congressional Democrats voted to override the Constitutional mandate that 2/3 of the Senate must approve presidential appointments, allowing a reactionary judge to be appointed with only 58 votes including 2 Democrats, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, consisting of 1 Green and 10 Democrats, voted 8 to 3, to favor cars over public transit, with the 8 being all Democrats, in a crowded City where driving a car can only be a luxury, and Supt of Schools Ackerman prais...

Proving that he is as adept in running the Federal Treasury to historic deficits(to the tune of more than $1 Trillion since he took office in 2001), the most incompetent White House CEO has also run his so-called November 2004 electoral "political capital" into a huge deficit in just 5 months. the latest polls show that George Bush has a negative rating on both his handling of the economy & the environment, as well as his handling of foreign policy, especially in the illegal U.S. Oc...

Audio: Exclusive Interview with HBO/NBC's JIM LAMPLEY on his Huffington Post firefight after blogging that Election 2004 was "the biggest crime in the history of the nation!" Plus: How The U.S. Press Has Sanitized The War in Iraq: Video/Transcript And Is Bush a Sith Lord?...

LaRouche PAC is printing 100,000 copies of this statement for distribution over the next two days in Washington, DC. Print out the PDF-formatted version of this statement and make copies to distribute to your local and state elected officials and Democratic Party and trade union activists - act with the urgency that the message of this statement requires! Contact LaRouche PAC for more information at 800-929-7566....

...Adds to the Industry's Record Profits ~ Interview with Bob Williams, director of the Politics of Oil Project at the Center for Public Integrity, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...

KATHMANDU: More than 10,000 activists rallied in Nepal's capital yesterday to demand a restoration of democracy, in the biggest protest against King Gyanendra since his February 1 power grab....

He said Schwarzenegger, a former bodybuilder and star of "The Terminator" movies," was playing politics in a bid to prepare himself for a run for president. "It's not fooling anybody to be running around raising money from Wall Street, K Street and rich Republicans all over the country," he said. "We are not the governor's dumbbells."...

Here are webpages for two petitions to Save the Filibuster, on the websites of the Sierra Club and the People for the American Way...

The battle over the filibuster continues to heat up in the U.S senate as the nomination of Texas Supreme Court justice Priscilla Owen comes under debate. Racial politics also entered the debate over the nomination of Janice Brown. We speak with Christy Harvey of the Center for American Progress and Jeffrey Johnson of People For The American Way....