One Utah

Our career military friend, “American born and bred,” Just Checking (JC) reminds us that being a good American is never obvious. For JC, it means serving in the military to make the world safe…for which we thank him.
I wish it were that simple. According to the National Intelligence Estimate and many other [...]

Can we impeach the fucker now?
h/t Think Progress “
Washington Post publishes additional details about the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping, noting that the National Security Agency approached Qwest “more than six months before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.” But the Body Politik’s Igor Volsky points out that President Bush has claimed that the program was [...]

Seymour Hersh has a new article about the coming U.S. attack on Iran in The New Yorker. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer interviewed him this morning. Scary, scary stuff. Must-read.

At a White House meeting with Cheney this summer, according to a former senior intelligence official, it was agreed that, if limited strikes on Iran [...]

As the government in Myanmar is finding out, it’s hard to keep oppression, corruption and institutional violence a secret in the age of blogging, satellite surveillance and global economics. So when Dick Cheney and others convened in Salt Lake for a meeting of the “secret” Council for National Policy, I was skeptical. After all, this [...]

Raw Story reports that Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) says he is “seriously thinking about calling a privileged resolution on impeachment of the vice president and forcing a vote on the floor of the House.” A member submitting a privileged resolution proposing impeachment is entitled to recognition for one hour in which to debate it. [...]

Rocky’s presentation on impeachment is now online at:  Compelling Case for Impeachment
If you haven’t seen it, I also recommend watching how Rocky spanked Bill O’Reilly on his very own Faux News program. Rocky Anderson Spanks Bill O’Reilly.
I think Bill thought he was gonna had up some small mountain-town mayor for an easy kill.  Not so [...]

Bush League War Drums Beating Louder on Iran
By Ray McGovern
t r u t h o u t | Guest Contributor Friday 24 August 2007
It is as though I’m back as an analyst at the CIA, trying to estimate the chances of an attack [...]

What’s left to say about the disaster that is Crandall Canyon? The federal government and a strident, political mine owner tell us they know what they’re doing. They refuse help from a highly-trained, unionized mine rescue team. They ignore reports showing continuous, human-induced seismic activity in the mountain. Now, after more than a week of [...]