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CounterPunch, CA The 2007 Defense Authorization Act and the “Reform” of the Insurrection Act of 1807

By Col. DAN SMITH (h)

Messages are circulating on the Internet that raise an alarm over a provision of the FY2007 Defense Department Authorization Act (PL 109-364) that expands presidential discretion to declare martial law and to federalize the National Guard in [...]

Huffington Post, NY

Since maintaining the status quo in Iraq is plainly untenable, the debate over what course to take seems to be boiling down to two options: pull out slowly in a phased reduction of troops, or increase troop levels and try to stabilize the country. But both these options will have the same effect: [...]

BuzzFlash, IL A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION (m)

by Dave Lindorff, co-author of “The Case for Impeachment”

If the Democratic Party were a real opposition party — a party of principle filled with fighters — I’d say maintaining control of the Senate, even with by a margin of a single, fragile vote, would be important and valuable.

But that’s not [...]

Atlantic Free Press, Netherlands Thursday, 16 November 2006 by Stephen Lendman

Lyndon Johnson was a conflicted man about Vietnam almost from the time he took office. As early as May, 1964, he confessed his doubts about the conflict to his good friend Senator Richard Russell in one of the many phone calls he taped in the Oval Office. [...]

By Ahmed Amr*

Any day now, the fabulous Baker boys will go public with yet another plan to handle the Mess on Potamia. You can bet your last dollar that the Iraq Study Group will produce a Band-Aid solution tailored to save Bush’s face or - as they like to say in the Beltway – protect [...]

CounterPunch, CA Jimmy Carter’s Roadmap

By NORMAN FINKELSTEIN

The historical chapters of Palestine Peace Not Apartheid are rather thin, filled with errors small and large, as well as tendentious and untenable interpretations. But few persons will be reading it for the history.

It is what Carter has to say about the present that will interest the reading public and [...]

Monthly Review, VA

by Rick Wolff (m)

Exit polls conducted at last week’s elections reveal the contradictions and limits of the Democrats’ victories.  As reported in the New York Times (November 9, 2006, page P7), the four fifths of US voters who are white preferred Republicans (52 to 48 percent), while Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians chose Democrats [...]