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It's difficult to watch Democrats play checkers while Republicans play chess with Iraq. It's particularly difficult on Memorial Day as more Americans and Iraqis die. By Thom Hartmann

Thirty years ago this month, in the small seacoast town of Seabrook, New Hampshire, a force of mass non-violent green advocacy collided with the nuke establishment. A definitive victory over corporate power was won.

The glaciers of the Himalayas store more ice than anywhere on Earth except for the polar regions and Alaska, and the steady flow of water from their melting icepacks fills seven of the mightiest rivers of Asia.

Thirty years ago, they stormed the New Hampshire coast, arriving by foot and by boat, to be met by state police, National Guard troops and a governor roaming the site in army fatigues.

Draft the war supporters. Send them to Iraq. Let them put Humpty-Dumpty back together again. They deserve it. We deserve it. The good people of Iraq deserve it.

Don't Look to the Congressional Democrats. By Jeremy Scahill

Nancy Pelosi is the Speaker of the House and Hillary Clinton is a major contender for the presidency. According to the US Labor depart, 40 percent of managerial jobs are held by women, who also fill the majority of seats in college classrooms. \ by Caryl Rivers

by Benjamin R. Barber

Except for giant meteorite strikes or other such catastrophes, Earth has never experienced anything like the contemporary human juggernaut. We are in a bottleneck of overpopulation and wasteful consumption that could push half of Earth's species to extinction in this century. / by E.O. Wilson

Recently the International Panel on Climate Change issued a report predicting an alarming array of impacts of climate change around the globe, including drought, floods, lower crop yields, threatened food security, wildfire and ocean acidification. / by Jane Goodall

Vermont State Senate Moves Forward On Impeachment

BAGHDAD — A wall U.S. troops are building around a Sunni enclave in Baghdad came under increasing criticism on Saturday, with residents calling it “collective punishment” and a local leader saying construction began without the neighborhood council’s approval.The U.S.

by Christopher Brauchli

No sensible person ever made an apology. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Stephen LeahyBROOKLIN, Canada - Today’s children will live in a new world of climate change and greatly diminished natural resources, which may give way to a nightmarish reality, or it could give birth to a happier and lighter way of living on the Earth, say environmentalists.The scientific evide

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Preaching love and campaign-finance reform, 97-year-old "Granny D" spoke in Chico Monday.Surely one of America's oldest political activists, Doris "Granny D" Haddock is renowned for promoting her cause by walking across the country when she was 89. By Larry Mitchell

It's become a TV ritual: Every year on April 4, as Americans commemorate Martin Luther King's death, we get perfunctory network news reports about "the slain civil rights leader." By Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon

Matthew Dowd was once a Texas Democrat. Then he wasn't. In the 1990s he fell in love with George Bush. He loved his knack for bi-partisanship, his talk of going beyond business as usual, his focus on education. (Aren't those the very qualities being projected on Barack Obama?) By Pierre Tristam

The United States will be ready to launch a missile attack on Iran's nuclear facilities as soon as early this month, perhaps "from 4 a.m. until 4 p.m. on April 6," according to reports in the Russian media on Saturday.

Government in the liberal democracies of the developed world is based on an experiment undertaken in the last half of the 18th century. That experiment theorized that the public interest could be protected under a system of laws enacted by the vote of the people's elected representatives.

"Standing in Afghanistan, you called the Iranian holding of fifteen British sailors who it is likely strayed in to Iranian waters: 'Cruel, callous, inhumane and unacceptable.' Breathtaking.Compared to the behavior of the UK and US troops, their treatment in Iran is seemingly a health spa." By Felici

Coalition Announces Launch of "Jews Against the War" to Give Voice to Growing Anti-War Jewish Majority

The Wide-Spread Use of Advanced Extraction Techniques are Killing the Mother of All Oil Fields. By Matthew S. Miller

"According to local labor leaders, transferring ownership to the foreign companies would give a further pretext to continue the U.S. occupation on the grounds that those companies will need protection. " By Emad Mekay

The international news media is flooded with images of a woman in a pink headscarf recounting a shattering experience of rape by members of the Iraqi National Police. By Yifat Susskind

Cinzia Bottene, a housewife who has become the public face of the movement, was ecstatic with the turnout for the march, estimated by the police at 80,000 and by the organizers at 200,000. By Medea Benjamin

The Justice Department has routinely misrepresented the number of terrorism prosecutions, possibly undermining decision-making in the war on terrorism, an independent government audit has found.

The lack of security in Iraq is leading now to a collapse in food supplies. By Dahr Jamail and Ali al-Fadhily

Karl Rove, then White House deputy chief of staff for President George W.