President Bush claimed in his State of the Union speech to have prevented four terrorist plots.  Phew!  It's a good thing to know that we tossed out our Bill of Rights for some actual REASON – I mean other than turning Iraq into a training ground for terrorism.

While Washington DC’s January weather isn’t typically the kind that would encourage out-of-town visitors to head to the country’s capitol, thousands of Americans will be doing just that this coming weekend. Their message? Stop the war.

Last week US Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) introduced H.R. 508, the "Bring the Troops Home and Iraq Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2007," the strongest of all current US Congressional bills which seek to de-escalate the US Invasion of Iraq.

You think you're tired and worn down and you got beat bad, right?  Is that what you think?  When you pulled off the most powerful offensive attack in league history on February 15, 2003, putting millions of people in the streets against this war, you think no points went up on the board, right?

Even though Democrats rolled up a 7-million vote victory margin Nov. 7th in protest of the war in Iraq, President Bush's intransigent response January 10th was to call for the escalation of U.S. troops rather than for their withdrawal.

The reviews are in, and they are terrible. The reaction to the President’s speech of January 10 –from the public, the media, and the overwhelming majority of Democrats and many influential Republicans in congress — shows just how isolated George Bush has become on the question of Iraq.

It began with that monstrous young man so evil we needed to blindfold him and strap him to a board, that confusing young man who looked like Christ but cast us in the role of crucifiers, that treasonous young man who brought dark and heathen evils across linguistic and cultural borders and brought torture onto the list of accepted government actions.

Americans angered by Bush's plans to escalate the Iraq war will flood the streets of Washington on Saturday, January 27, in a massive national peace march organized by United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ).

The Bring Our Troops Home and Sovereignty of Iraq Restoration Act is the first comprehensive legislative proposal to end the occupation and provide a framework to help bring stability back to Iraq.

The Bush administration’s call to escalate the war in Iraq has been met with a resounding “No!” Twenty-four hours after Bush’s announcement about sending 21,500 more troops, emergency protest actions were organized in nearly 1,000 neighborhoods and town squares.

Nearly two weeks after hearing arguments in the January 4 pre-trial phase of Lt. Ehren Watada’s court martial for refusing to deploy to Iraq, and explaining his refusal to the press, military circuit judge Lt. Col. John M. Head today issued brief, tersely worded rulings January 16, 2007.

As the U.S. government continues its tragic misadventure in Iraq, more and more soldiers are seeing the illegality and immorality of the war and are deserting. One outspoken soldier who refused deployment to Iraq, Lt. Ehren Watada, is being charged with ‘contempt of government officials.’

Bush just connected Iraq to 9-11 again, and the media will not tell you it was a lie. Bush just gave a list of reasons why this time his escalation of the war will work. The reasons amounted to: 1) We'll have more troops. 2) We'll go into neighborhoods holding hands with Iraqis. 3) Maliki won't "tolerate" any interference

Under the banner of "America Says NO to More Troops! End the War!" the antiwar movement will launch a national surge of protest within 24 hours of Bush's announcement of plans to send more troops to Iraq.

We’ve had so much hype about the proposed “surge” of troops in Iraq, for weeks now, that when President Bush finally releases the details of the plan, perhaps as early as Wednesday, they will likely come as a surprise to no one.

In the waning days of 2006, the reality of institutional racism and aggressive imperialism were laid bare again in the U.S. The police shooting of African American Sean Bell and his two friends in Brooklyn, New York on the morning of November 25 were followed on December 6th by a report from the Iraq Study Group convened by the US government to, as the authors of the report note, "solve the problem of Iraq."

Fervently embracing a cause that she took up after her son’s death, pacifist Cindy Sheehan affirmed in Cuba that the atrocities committed by the government of George W. Bush in the world is shameful for many Americans.

Last week, two men died. One of them was an insignificant nonentity who hardly troubled people’s thoughts when he was in office thirty years ago, a man universally hailed for his “decency” and collegiality toward fellow politicians and members of his country’s political elite; the other, a brutal tyrant.

Unlike the previous majority party in Congress, the Democrats who take power today know their weaknesses.  They know they're not very good at the whole press conference thing where you're supposed to stand there and say something people care about. 

The Liberal Party leadership race which wrapped up on Dec. 2 in Montreal had all the elements of dramatic horse race, culminating in a delegate vote which saw Stephane Dion emerge from the pack to catch Michael Ignatieff at the fourth-round wire.