Between their surfacing in January 2001 and the fateful January 2003 State of the Union Address in which President Bush used specific information from the forgeries to make his case for war to the American people, the Niger documents had been discredited on 14 separate occasions.

Dick DeVos, billionaire co-owner of Amway, will likely win the Republican Party primary for the governor’s race in Michigan. He sure has paid enough for it.

Nominal leader of the Democrats in Congress Nancy Pelosi, following talking points produced by the Republican National Committee, recently told her fellow Dems to keep impeachment off the table.

Black is white. War is peace. Impeachment is good for Republicans. Haven't you heard? The Republicans say so. The Democrats say so. It just must BE so.

Undocumented and documented immigration to the United States is at a record high in absolute numbers. The Pew Hispanic Center estimates that there are as many as 12 million undocumented.

Glenn Greenwald's new book "How Would a PATRIOT ACT? Defending American Values from a President Run Amok," lays out a powerful, concise, and well-researched argument that President Bush is a threat to our government's system of checks and balances and to our individual liberties.

Big Brother is watching you. At least when you’re on the phone -- he knows what numbers you’ve called, how many times and for how long, what numbers people at those numbers have called, and so on.

In the midst of probably the greatest crime wave in history the target of the Bush Surveillance State is obviously misplaced. The greatest enemy of the US Constitution and the American middle class way of life are not citizens, but US global corporations. 

The Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee, voting 10 to 8, voiced approval for the Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA), which would amend the US Constitution to outlaw same-sex marriages and civil unions.

US Senator Menendez (D-NJ) is “looking closely” at signing on to US Senator Russell Feingold’s (D-WI) bill to censure President Bush, Senator Menendez told Atlanta Progressive News during an in-person interview.

Past and present immigration have many things in common. Both are largely the result of severe economic dislocations effecting regions following under the sway of industrial capitalism.

Al Gore may be a “recovering politician,” but “You always have to worry about a relapse,” Gore told Atlanta Progressive News.

While conducting research upon completion of his sociology Ph.D. in Houston in 1979, Dr. Robert Bullard noticed that all the city’s garbage dumps were located in and around neighborhoods inhabited primarily by African Americans.

Within the last week, Karl Rove told President Bush and Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten, as well as a few other high level administration officials, that he will be indicted in the CIA leak case and will immediately resign his White House job when the special counsel publicly announces the charges against him, according to sources.

Bush's approval rating is now at 29%, and disapproval at an astonishing 71%.  Well, it's astonishing that it took so long to get there.  But it's also record-setting. 

It is not often that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld finds himself aggressively questioned about the Iraq War. When that happened at a May 4 event, many in the media seemed not to know what to make of it.

An international appeal for help is being circulated. For the promotion of democracy in the one country that needs it the most, the US, the newly founded International Endowment for Democracy (IED) seeks to raise international funds to assist pro-democracy groups within the US.

Dick DeVos, co-owner of Amway, will likely win the Republican Party primary for the governor’s race in Michigan. He sure has paid enough for it, spending millions of his personal fortune on a glitzy television and radio ad campaign to hide the facts about his own agenda.

Seizing any weapon with which to attack the growing movement for immigrant workers’ rights, the Republican Party and the right wing have found a new gripe: the recording of a Spanish-language version of the United States’ national anthem.

Ray McGovern wasn't aiming to make Donald Rumsfeld stutter and stammer like a kid caught cheating on a test when he asked him last week why he'd lied us into a war.  That was just a side benefit.