EXCELLENT COMMENTARY

On My Switch From Clinton to Obama, by JOSEPH J. ANDREW: "The hardest decisions in life are not between good and bad or right and wrong, but between two goods or two rights. That is the decision Democrats face today. We have an embarrassment of riches, but as much as we may love our candidates and revel in the political process that has brought Presidential politics to places that have not seen it in a generation, we cannot let our family affair hurt America by helping John McCain." Read this article...

Have You Left No Sense Of Decency?, by Bob Cesca: "So what is the very serious corporate media, the only industry that is explicitly protected by the Constitution, doing to remedy their failures of the recent past? Rather than watchdogging the Bush administration and Senator McCain on Iraq, Iran, the economy and all the rest of it -- areas in which Senator McCain is laughably wrong and dangerously inconsistent -- what are we seeing instead? All three major cable news networks are wasting valuable air time on Senator Obama's former pastor. Why? Is the story newsworthy? Sure. Is wall-to-wall Wright coverage more important than Iraq or gas prices or the climate crisis? No way. But Reverend Wright is a scary, shouting black man and scary shouting black men equal ratings-sweet-ratings." Read this article...

Shameful Days: Why Won't The Media Pursue the Pentagon Propaganda Scandal?, by Arianna Huffington: "On April 20th, the New York Times published its expose of the Bush administration's use of Pentagon-approved, prepped, and financially-enriched 'military analysts' to appear on TV to help sell the invasion of Iraq, and then put a positive spin on the occupation -- even as conditions on the ground deteriorated." Read this article...

Al-Qaeda Readies in Pakistan, While America Waits, by JONATHAN MORGENSTEIN: "Picture this: A terrifying new report is delivered to the U.S. President. It states starkly that al-Qaeda is in the last stages of preparing to attack the United States. But the response is…nothing. The President takes no action, and the report goes basically unreported in the media. We’ve heard this story before. But this is not the infamous August, 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing entitled, 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.' This happened just over a week ago, when the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a scathing report about the mounting danger of a reconstituted al-Qaeda growing and plotting in the tribal sections of Pakistan. The President’s reaction now, as it was in 2001, was silence." Read this article...

Fastened To A Dying Animal: a short jeremiad regarding that affront to the nation's dignity known as the US election pro, by Phil Rockstroh: "Here in this crumbling empire once known as the American republic, here in a nation that, at present, for all practical purposes, only produces Cheetos and killer drones, whose architecture is being winnowed down to thriving rural meth houses and foreclosed upon suburban mchouses, whose corrupt corporate culture has bequeathed upon our suffering planet dying oceans and the hyper-caffeinated tsunami of Red Bull Capitalism -- the essential question confronts us -- how does one retain (not retail) one's humanity amid the catastrophic machinery and inane accouterment of our age?" Read this article...

Is There an Army Cover-Up of Rape and Murder of Women Soldiers?, by Ann Wright: "The Department of Defense statistics are alarming - one in three women who join the US military will be sexually assaulted or raped by men in the military. The warnings to women should begin above the doors of the military recruiting stations, as that is where assaults on women in the military begin - before they are even recruited. But, now, even more alarming, are deaths of women soldiers in Iraq and in the United States following rape." Read this article...

Hillary: No
She'd be better than McCain, but that's not a good reason to support her, by Bryan Zepp Jamieson: "But with Hillary, it's become impossible to give her that benefit of the doubt. In her eagerness to take support wherever she can get it, she's gone to some of the leading figures of what she once named the 'Vast Right Wing Conspiracy' in order to try and curry favor." Read this article...

NEW HUMOR

Back in the USSR - a cartoon by Mike Thompson of the Detroit Free Press

Freedom of choice - by artist Stephen Pitt at light-to-dark.com

Mad McCain - by artist Stephen Pitt at light-to-dark.com

Hillary goes nuclear- artist unidentified

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FREE MP3 MUSIC DOWNLOADS

We just recently added these three new anti-Bush songs:

The first one is: Fighting the War of Error. This is a terrific folk song with exceptional lyrics by singer/songwriter, JD Ross. Download Fighting the War of Error now.

The second one is called: Let Us Bomb by Jon Hartmann Music. This is a rock/pop song with terrific original music that incorporates Bush's own words rapping the lyrics to the music. Download Let Us Bomb now.

The third one is called: Money Trumps Peace. This song is also by Jon Hartmann and his band but this one has a Jamaican beat. This song like all of the other ones on his new CD called "George Bush Sings" uses Bush's own words to rap the lyrics to the music. Download Money Trumps Peace now.

If you want to get these songs or other songs, please go to our Music page and scroll down until you locate the ones you want.

All of our anti-war, anti-Bush music can be found on our Music pages listed in alphabetical order. We continually add new songs to our list.

IMPORTANT NOTICES

URGE THE SENATE TO SIGN ONTO HOUSE VERSION OF FISA: You can use Congressman John Conyer's petition to urge your Senators to sign onto the House verison of the FISA bill that has already been passed. The House version does not grant the telecoms immunity.

CALL YOUR CONGRESSPERSON AND CONG. JOHN CONYERS AND TELL THEM YOU SUPPORT H.RES 799 WHICH CALLS FOR HOLDING A HEARING ON THE IMPEACHMENT OF DICK CHENEY.This support is necessary to move this in committee and out of committee or else it may die in committee. Support Congressman Wexler's efforts to gather signatures in support of these hearings. He now has at least 210,000 signatures supporting impeachment hearings.

WHAT'S NEW

Analysis: Democrats quietly send word to Clinton it's over: "Apart from George McGovern, a plainspoken man who knows something about losing elections, not a single Democrat of national stature publicly urged Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday to end her campaign for the White House. They didn't have to. There was no shortage of other ways to signal, suggest, insinuate or instigate the same thing. And certainly no need to apply unseemly pressure to a historic political figure, a woman who has run a grueling race, won millions of votes and drawn uncounted numbers of new Democratic voters to the polls." Read more of this story...

McGovern, former Clinton backer, endorses Obama: "Former Sen. George McGovern, an early supporter of Hillary Rodham Clinton, urged her to drop out of the Democratic presidential race and endorsed her rival, Barack Obama. After watching the returns from the North Carolina and Indiana primaries Tuesday night, McGovern said Wednesday it's virtually impossible for Clinton to win the nomination. The 1972 Democratic presidential nominee said he had a call in to former President Clinton to tell him of the decision, adding that he remains close friends with the Clintons." Read more of this story...

Clinton lends herself $6.4M as Obama's lead grows: "A campaign aide says Hillary Rodham Clinton lent herself $6.4 million in the past month. Politically wounded and financially strapped, Clinton plunged back into the presidential campaign Wednesday even as Barack Obama declared that Tuesday's primary results left him with a 'clear path to victory." Read more of this story...

California superdelegates' wavering bodes ill for Hillary Clinton: "Hillary Rodham Clinton, stung last week by the defection of a prominent superdelegate, could lose the backing of more of these Democratic Party leaders and elected officials if she fails to make significant gains in the remaining month of presidential nominating contests, several California superdelegates said this weekend." Read more of this story...

Clinton Camp Says It Will Use The Nuclear Option: "Hillary Clinton's campaign today acknowledged plans to try to win seating of the disputed Michigan and Florida delegations to the Democratic Nation Convention at a meeting of the party's Rules and Bylaws Committee on May 31...With at least 50 percent of the Democratic Party's 30-member Rules and Bylaws Committee committed to Clinton, her backers could -- when the committee meets at the end of this month -- try to ram through a decision to seat the disputed 210-member Florida and 156-member Michigan delegations. Such a decision would give Clinton an estimated 55 or more delegates than Obama, according to Clinton campaign operatives. The Obama campaign has declined to give an estimate." Read more of this story...

Iraq's first lady unharmed after her motorcade is bombed: "A bomb hit a motorcade carrying Iraq's first lady through Baghdad on Sunday, while the U.S. military said a roadside explosion killed four Marines in the deadliest attack in western Anbar province in months.
The motorcade bombing in Baghdad's Karrada district injured four of Hiro Ibrahim Ahmed's bodyguards but left her unharmed, according to the office of her husband, President Jalal Talabani." Read more of this story...

La. Democrat Wins In GOP Stronghold
Strategy to Link Victor to Obama Falls Short: "A Louisiana Democrat captured a House seat held by Republicans for the previous 33 years, defeating a former GOP state legislator yesterday in a special election that Republicans tried to turn into a referendum on Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.). With all precincts reporting, State Rep. Donald J. Cazayoux Jr. had 49 percent of the vote to Woody Jenkins's 46 percent, overcoming a barrage of ads from GOP committees that tried to paint Cazayoux as an ally of Obama, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, and of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)." Read more of this story...

'91 war, not Iraq war, was over oil, McCain clarifies: "Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) clarified his comments Friday after suggesting the Iraq war was motivated by U.S. reliance on foreign oil. His explanation: He was talking about the 1991 Persian Gulf War, not the current conflict. It was the second time in as many days that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee had to clear up his comments. On Thursday, he backed off his assertion that pork-barrel spending led to last year's deadly bridge collapse in Minneapolis. At issue Friday was a comment at a morning town hall meeting in Denver, when he said his energy policy would eliminate U.S. dependence on Middle East oil and would 'prevent us from having ever to send our young men and women into conflict again in the Middle East.'" Read more of this story...

Obama defeats Clinton in Guam caucuses by 7 votes: "Sen. Barack Obama won Guam's Democratic presidential caucuses Saturday by just seven votes, according to a Guam election official. With all 21 precincts reporting, Obama finished with 2,264 votes, or 50.1 percent. Sen. Hillary Clinton got 2,257 votes, or 49.9 percent. Each candidate picked up two delegates." Read more of this story...

Obama Campaign Files FEC Complaint Against Pro-Clinton Group: "Barack Obama's campaign has filed a formal complaint over a pro-Hillary Clinton group running ads attacking the Illinois senator on jobs and the economy in the critical primary state of Indiana." Read more of this story...

Clinton campaign opposes giving Obama more Mich. delegates : "Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign opposes Michigan's plan to give fewer delegates to her and more to rival Barack Obama, a campaign spokesman said Thursday...Michigan Democrats on Wednesday voted to back a plan that would give Clinton 69 delegates -- four fewer than the 73 she gained by winning the state's Jan. 15 primary. Obama would get 59 pledged delegates even though he took his name off the ballot, forcing his supporters to vote for Uncommitted." Read more of this story...

More Than 43,000 Unfit Troops Deployed: "Since 2003, tens of thousands of troops have been sent to Iraq or Afghanistan even though they were ruled medically unfit for combat, Pentagon records show. 'It is a consequence of the consistent churning of our troops,' says the president of a veterans group. 'They are repeatedly exposed to high-intensity combat with insufficient time at home to rest and heal before redeploying.'" Read more of this story...

Bob Barr to run as Libertarian: "Bob Barr, the conservative former Georgia congressman, will announce next week that he's running for president as a Libertarian, according to a source familiar with his plans. Barr launched an exploratory committee last month and sent out a news advisory this morning touting a press conference next Monday at the National Press Club 'to discuss his future plans and the 2008 election.'" This is good news because it will take some votes from McCain and give him a challenge from the right. Read more of this story...

Hillary Will Drop Out by June 15: "A senior campaign official and Clinton confidante has told me that there will be a Democratic nominee by June 15. He could not bring himself to say the words "Hillary will drop out by June 15," but that is clearly what he meant. I kept saying, 'So, Hillary will drop out by June 15,' and he kept saying, 'We will have a nominee by June 15." He stressed what a reasonable person Hillary is.'" Read more of this story...

BUSHSPEAK

"This is a nation that loves our freedom, loves our country." --Washington, D.C., May 17, 2003

"Other Republican candidates may retort to personal attacks and negative ads."--fund-raising letter from George W. Bush as quoted in The Washington Post, March 24, 2000

"My administration has been calling upon all the leaders in the---in the Middle East to do everything they can to stop the violence, to tell the different parties involved that peace will never happen."--Crawford, Texas, August 13, 2001

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