Bush's Last Chance on Climate
Janet Redman : Environment
At the G-8 Summit, he can help the developing world bear the brunt of climate damage caused by the developing world. But don't hold your breath.

Janet Redman : Environment
At the G-8 Summit, he can help the developing world bear the brunt of climate damage caused by the developing world. But don't hold your breath.
Elizabeth Holtzman : Executive
If we don't act now, future generations will see that a weapon intended to defend the rule of law grew rusty and unusable on our watch.
Robert Scheer : Oil
Sure, greedy consumers play their part. But George W. Bush is responsible for the five-fold increase in the price of oil.
Ross C. Anderson : Spoken Word
After eight years of misgovernment, Americans must join together to restore our democracy, the rule of law, and our nation's moral standing on history's high road.
Robert Scheer : Saudi Arabia
How have the Saudis thanked George W. Bush for protecting their sorry oil well of a country? Just check the price of gas.
Move On.org : Presidential Election 2008
Think you can tell the difference between McCain and Bush? Take the Bush-McCain challenge!
The Editors : Guantanamo Bay
New revelations of political interference in the prosecution of Gitmo prisoners shows Team Bush scrambling to keep one step ahead of history--and of criminal charges.
Michael Takiff : Dick Cheney
Two outrageous statements by Bush and Cheney demonstrate their scorn and contempt for the American people and for the armed forces they command.
Robert Scheer : Iraq War
Presiding over a disastrous war and an unconscionable taxpayer bailout of Wall Street, why is George W. Bush still smiling?
David Cole : Torture
Bush has made history by being the first American President to use his veto power to preserve torture.
Eyal Press : Republican Party
In his recent memoir, former GOP insider Lincoln Chafee boldly decries the Bush era.
Robert Scheer : US Military
Curb your enthusiasm. No matter who wins, we can't reverse the damage of Bush's bloated military budget.
Naomi Klein : Economic Policy
Bush turns out to be the undertaker of the free market's false promises to ordinary Americans.
The Editors : George W. Bush Administration
What happens when the President gives a State of the Union address and nobody listens?
Allan Nairn
A leader who waged war with impunity shouldn't be surprised to someday be called to account for his actions.
Robert Scheer : U.S. Economy
After all he's done for them, why is it that Bush only gets a 12 percent favorability rating in Saudi Arabia?
Despite new evidence on Iran's nuclear ambitions, President Bush is sticking to his story--an inflated threat assessment some leading Democrats have bought into.
Bush's coddling of Pervez Musharraf defies all reason--and bears some unsettling similarity to his own offenses and misteps as President.
: George W. Bush Administration
Bush may be a discredited President, but he can still do a lot of damage in the last sixteen months of his presidency.
Robert Scheer : Democratic Party
A deceitful President, masking the chaos his $3 trillion war has unleashed with photo-ops from Iraq, now confronts cynical Democrats in Congress poised to write another check, willfully blind to the waste of US and Iraqi lives.
If the President is allowed to invoke the divine right of kings, the American Revolution will have come full circle.
Describing the recent bridge failure and steam-pipe explosion as "cowardly attacks on our way of life," Bush today opened a new front in his permanent war on everything.
The burgeoning movement to impeach Bush and Cheney is a rational response at a time when 80 percent of Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction.
The Nation's John Nichols discusses the case for impeaching President Bush with conservative Constitutional scholar Bruce Fein, in this excerpt from the July 13 edition of Bill Moyers Journal on PBS.
Katha Pollitt : Jails & Prisons
Dear George Bush: Don't stop with Scooter Libby. Why not go all the way and pardon everyone unfairly held behind bars?
The White House announced that the President has run out of his own bad ideas and is looking elsewhere for new ones, even if they don't make any sense.
Liberated from having to serve time for his crime, he shares a perch with Bush and Cheney, somewhere high above the law.
A close reading of L. Paul Bremer's memoir shows the President knew details about torture far earlier than he has acknowledged.
Robert Scheer : Attorney General
As Congressional testimony reveals Alberto Gonzales's loathsome behavior as Attorney General, remember he was carrying out the wishes of George W. Bush.
: Iraq War
Despite the Administration's crude and dishonest attacks on efforts to end the war, Congressional Democrats can't back down now.
An "impeachment from below" movement is gathering steam, and Congress needs to pay attention to it.
A majority of Iraqis now say it's OK to attack American troops. Thanks, George.
Polling experts say that Bush's numbers are at an all-time low, and that only certain toxic molds have come close to those numbers in the past.
Bush needs to acknowledge how little Colombia and Guatemala are doing to combat cocaine trafficking to the United States.
Aziz Huq : Civil Rights & Liberties
What kind of executive branch of government did the framers of the Constitution have in mind? Not the runaway powers now claimed by the Bush Administration.
Is George W. Bush the worst President the United States has ever seen?
Bush's military budget has less to do with running the country than with rewarding his pals and paying off his political debts.
More proof that Bush has been the most dangerous President in American history.
Looking for reasons to impeach the President? Listen to the testimony in Scooter Libby's perjury trial.
Unfortunately, the Constitution's impeachment clause only works for criminals, not the grossly incompetent.
Elizabeth Holtzman : Executive
Between Iraq, Katrina and wiretapping, the case for removing Bush is overwhelming.
Jim Webb's gutsy response to Bush's unconvincing State of the Union message bodes well for the Democratic Party.
Scott Ritter : Democratic Party
President Bush's State of the Union address proved he is hellbent on going to war with Iran. Here's what the Democrats must do to stop him.
Nicholas von Hoffman : Iraq War
Bush is soft-pedaling the idea of sacrifice as a way of making his war palatable to ordinary Americans. But the tactic isn't working all that well.
No State of the Union message can erase the world's dismal verdict on Bush and the Iraq War.
: Iraq War
Can a single man force a nation to fight an unpopular war? Here's how
Congress can stand up to Bush.
It's not the surge we're worried about. It's the soldiers.
A challenge to the President's moral integrity, wayward policies and strategies as he leads the American people deeper into war.
: Iraq War
Blocking Bush's escalation attempt is the first step toward bringing the troops home.
Katrina vanden Heuvel : Iraq War
By ignoring his advisors and the will of the people, Bush is recklessly using American lives to salvage a delusional policy.
Nicholas von Hoffman : US Military
The surge is Bush's last throw of the dice. If it fails, he may decimate an exhausted Army and leave the nation without reserves.
President Bush has said many dumb things in defense of his Iraq policy. Citing the Vietnam War as a model is his most ludicrous.
: George W. Bush Administration
As voters expressed their disgust, this election signaled a repudiation of the corrupt Bush regime, a clear antiwar victory and the collapse of the conservative order.
Robert Scheer : Saddam Hussein
Bush insisted that Saddam Hussein's trial be held in Iraq so that an international tribunal would never expose America's history of support for the tyrant.
The Iraq Study Group report comes too late for the 600,000 people who died in carnage that is likely to worsen. It won't satisfy the antiwar movement because it sets no timetable for withdrawal. But it does mark the beginning of the end of America's criminal war of aggression.
John Kerry should stop being nice about the Deserter in Chief. He should be reminding voters that the President who has sent more than 3,000 US soldiers and allies and untold thousands of Iraqis to their deaths deserted his post during the Vietnam War.
Robert Scheer : White-Collar Crime
Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling would have remained small time crooks were it not for the energy industry deregulation measures they effectively purchased from Bush I and II.
"Some expert on CNN said, 'A stitch in time saves nine.' And I thought, Doesn't anyone speak clearly anymore? Nine what?"
Robert Scheer : Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
If George W. Bush took the latest National Intelligence Estimate seriously, he would end the ineffectual "war on terror" model and treat terrorism as a pathology to be clinically and relentlessly excised.
The Decider takes on that bothersome Constitution and that meddling
Congress.
President Bush's address to the UN General Assembly was less disdainful than earlier speeches, but it shined a light on the President's willful blindness to the complexity of the problems facing the Mideast and the world.
Thanks to an acquiescent Congress, we are now being governed by an Administration that is radically trying to change the nature of our democracy.
Everyone knows what his predecessors liked for dinner. But there's one special dish we'd really like to serve George W. Bush.
Robert Scheer : Terrorism Targeting the US
Investigators have known for a decade about terrorist plots to bring down passenger jets with liquid explosives. So why, all of a sudden, did Bush ban most liquids on flights?
In a news brief from the future, Bush continues to do whatever it takes to protect us from terror.
Bush's boorish comments at the G-8 summit revealed more than his ignorance of the Mideast: His policies have made the US a helpless bystander as the entire region burns.
Brooke Allen & Patrick Doyle : Religion
No President in living memory is as overtly religious as George W. Bush. But just how well have the President and his henchmen kept the commandments?
Desperate to report progress in Iraq Bush boasts that the newest Iraqi leader has taken his phone call twice. Wow. And it only cost $200 billion and thousands of dead and maimed Americans.
If democracy represents the will of the people, then there is either something wrong with democracy in the United States and Britain or something wrong with the people on both sides of the Atlantic.
Robert Scheer : Immigration to the US
Bush has taken a sensible stance on immigration, but his plummeting credibility will prevent people from embracing his proposals.
Robert Scheer : Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Gen. Michael Hayden, nominated by President Bush to head the CIA, is the man responsible for the most extensive attack ever on the privacy of US citizens.
The idea of impeaching the President is not such an unlikely notion after all.
Eric Alterman : Journalists & Journalism
The FBI's bid to examine Jack Anderson's papers is the latest battle in the Bush Administration's war against the media.
Bush's goofily unmoored positioning of himself as "the decider" duncifies us all.
: Iraq War
Reality, for the moment, has trumped Bush's spin. The retired generals' revolt and the Rumsfeld imbroglio prove the President can no longer rely on false or disingenuous assertions to cover his failures.
Robert Scheer : Nuclear Arms & Proliferation
Bush's nutty nuclear braggadocio on Iran is a sign of weakness, not strength, proof that his five-year Administration is an abysmal failure.
As Prime Minister-elect Romano Prodi takes the reins of power, Italians should seek evidence of Berlusconi's true role in the run-up to the Iraq War.
David Corn : US Intelligence/Covert Ops
If President Bush wants to tell the truth to the American public, he can make Cheney, Rove and Libby come clean about their role in the Plame affair.
Card is out, Bolten in. The Senate is stuck on immigration. And every day brings more bad news. Take care of this, will you, Josh?
John Nichols : Russell Feingold
By failing to support Russ Feingold's motion to censure the President for illegal domestic spying, Democrats are taking the same path of overly calculated caution that cost them elections in 2002 and 2004.
One tough question from an elderly gentleman in Cleveland punctured the President's pretensions about the reasons for launching the disastrous Iraq war.
Bush's approach to maintaining control: Can you say Caine Mutiny?
As Bush continues to insist the US is bringing peace and freedom to Iraq, his latest plan to quell the insurgency spends billions more to stem the use of improvised explosive devices.
Bush's low approval rating is irrelevant, considering who is still on his side.
Patricia J. Williams : Globalization
The Dubai flap is no surprise, considering Bush always promised to run America like a corporation--even if the corporation is Enron.
Turnabout is fair play when it's the terror card you're playing.
Opposition to President Bush's visit to India was so intense that the only public space deemed acceptable for him to deliver a speech is a crumbling old fort that also houses the Delhi zoo.
: Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
Rather than undermine Hamas, the Bush Administration should accept the results of the Palestinian election and pursue a policy of cautious engagement.
Michael Brown is just one of many members of Team Bush who did a
heckuva job.
Although his language is less blatant than Richard Nixon's, George Bush is claiming the same imperial powers today that led Congress to pass the Foreign Intelligence Security Act.
George W. Bush's irrational governance has wrought yet another outrage: The Administration's $2.77-trillion budget request.
Instead of Bush's imperial presidency, America needs the vision of Congressional progressives: rapid withdrawal from Iraq, universal healthcare, campaign reform and a shift to renewable energy.
As his State of the Union message approaches, we deserve a rest from the fundamentalist presidency of G.W. Bush, whose guiding principles are antithetical to democracy and will only accelerate our decline.
Patricia J. Williams : Journalists & Journalism
If we are suspending the law in deference to Bush's unchecked impulses,
let's call it by its proper name: Benign lawlessness? Gitmo Governance?
Fear Factor?
Elizabeth Holtzman : Executive
The time has come to call for the impeachment of President Bush. Any President who maintains he is above the law--and acts repeatedly on that belief--seriously endangers our consitutional system of government.
Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith : Supreme Court
Revelations of the Bush Administration's domestic spying program have sharply shifted the focus of Samuel Alito's Supreme Court confirmation hearings from domestic and social issues to executive privilege during times of war. Here's a list of questions Alito should be asked to fully elicit his views on the scope and limits of presidential power.
Chastised by Russ Feingold for extrajudicial spying, the President who would be king invokes the divine right of kings.
David Cole : Civil Rights & Liberties
The Bush Administration believes it can ignore the rule of law--in pursuit of torture, Pentagon surveillance of antiwar groups and now, domestic spying. We must continue to insist that in a democracy, the rule of law cannot be ignored.
A belligerent President has vowed that warrantless domestic spying will continue. He also hopes to quash open debate of the issue in Congress on security grounds. Given the palpable outrage over the President's contempt for basic constitutional law, will illegal wiretaps lead to the undoing of the Bush presidency?
Jonathan Schell : Civil Rights & Liberties
The Bush Administration is not a dictatorship, but it has all the markings of one in embryonic form. Bush has declared himself to be above the law, and members of Congress have no choice but to accept the challenge. Either the President upholds the laws of this country, or he must leave office.
Robert Scheer : Saddam Hussein
Ethnic cleansing, chemical weapons, self-appointed executioners: Sound familiar? The US occupation in Iraq has created conditions just as bad--if not worse--than Saddam Hussein's ruthless regime. And the increasingly isolated George W. Bush insists on staying the course.
Jeremy Scahill : Journalists & Journalism
Given the Administration's record of attacking Al Jazeera verbally and militarily, is it conceivable that President Bush tried to convince Tony Blair to bomb its international headquarters? Only publication of an explosive memo will prove it.
When George W. Bush met Muhammad Ali at the White House last week, the Champ had one last rope-a-dope up his sleeve. You don't have to guess who won this match.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and Argentine soccer hero Diego Maradona led thousands in a massive rebuke of George W. Bush, his trade policies and his neoconservative agenda at the Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata Argentina. Despite some sporadic violence, the protest focused on developing indigenous alternatives to US-led trade initiatives policies.
Eyal Press : Campaigns & Elections
Bush's lavish subsidies and reckless attempts to export democracy through the barrel of a gun violate conservative principles. Republican realists are finally catching on.
Elizabeth de la Vega : Bush's Lies
The Bush Administration should be prosecuted for conspiracy to defraud the United States by using half-truths and recklessly false statements to lead the country into an illegal war. This article is a collaboration with TomDispatch.com.
Indictments or not, what America knows now about the outing of Valerie
Plame is that Bush Administration officials deliberately leaked
information that potentially damaged the nation--then lied about it.
As the Bush Administration's incompetence turns Iraq into a terrorist training camp, Americans should look to FDR, who waged war for unavoidable threats, not ideology, while still fostering good will among US allies.
Where normal human
beings see a storm-devastated community, George W. Bush sees only a
photo opportunity.
Liza Featherstone : Peace Activism
Last week's antiwar rally in Washington sent a
single, unequivocal message: At home and abroad, the Bush
Administration is a complete failure.
It takes a hurricane to raise awareness that the numbers of poor people are growing on George Bush's watch. Will that be enough for the President to begin to level the playing field?
America's narcissism and willful blindness to its own moral failings have been placed in sharp relief as the nation fitfully responds to the needs of storm victims.
Long fooled by the Bush image machine, Americans now understand that this Administration can only deliver spin, not substance; photo ops, not action.
Such a tough hombre: When the hurrincane hit, Bush did a 9/11 reprise.
Calvin Trillin : War on Terrorism
The true and patriotic purpose of presidential loafing revealed.
Will one woman's solitary protest become a turning point for a nation disillusioned with a President and his war?
Alexander Cockburn : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left
Bush may be falling in the polls, but his political agenda is flourishing.
The "war on terror" is turning out to be nothing more than a recycled formulation of the dangerously dumb "domino theory."
Bush's political capital can't buy him support on the Iraq war and Social Security.
Patricia J. Williams : Religion
Recently it seems discussion on culture goes well beyond careless epithet and into a land with no common ground.
The fight over stem cell research has divided Congressional Republicans.
Remember what Bush was like before bin Laden?
In visiting discriminatory Latvia, Bush invites criticism from Russia.
A presidential commission's report shines a light on a "crazy" Iraqi informant.
Robert Scheer : Arms Spending & Proliferation
Trying to follow the US policy on the proliferation of nuclear weapons is like watching a three-card monte game.
Robert Scheer : US Foreign Policy
As a political marketing device, Bush's address was brilliant.
Bush will never be absolved of his immoral war.
Naomi Klein : Iraqi Reconstruction/ Occupation
Genuine impunity breeds a kind of delusional decadence.
"Mosh" could be one of the most overtly political pop music videos ever produced.
Bush's hometown is still behind him, but not with the enthusiasm of 2000.
Thanks to damage caps and other measures, victims are often unable to sue.
A new source has what she says is personal knowledge about why Bush prematurely left his Texas National Guard unit in 1972.
When the Bushes need a fixer, they turn to James Baker III. He and his firm benefit.
Victor Navasky : Media Analysis
What Rather got right relates to yet another presidential narrative.
Russ Baker : Presidential Election 2004
Evidence suggests that Bush left his National Guard unit for reasons pertaining to his inability to continue piloting a fighter jet.
Ian Williams : Presidential Election 2004
The flag and uniform Bush has wrapped himself in should be ripped off.
Robert Scheer : Republican Party
Good sizzle can always sell a lousy steak.
Robert Scheer : Iraqi Reconstruction/ Occupation
Team members do not want to be used as an ad for the presidential campaign.
George W. Bush's National Guard Service records have a suspiciously low survival rate.
Robert Scheer : Gay & Lesbian Issues & Activism
Bush keeps claiming to represent "normal" Americans at the expense of "the other."
Jon Wiener : George W. Bush Administration
Weinstein is considered by many archivists and historians to be unqualified on ethical grounds.
: Iraq War
Bush remains a man on a mission--a dangerous one--to recast the world according to his limited views.
Roane Carey & Adam Shatz : Ariel Sharon
Sharon may be toasting his agreement with the Bush Administration, but his pastrami sandwich is a recipe for continued warfare.
No wonder George W. Bush could lie to Congress with such impunity while keeping the key members of his Cabinet in the dark. He was serving a higher power.
It's offended people from the start; now the Supreme Court will wade in--again.
Karl Rove's White House laboratory has shipped another batch of extremist nominees to the Senate for its members' consent, after not asking for their advice.
Renana Brooks : Political Analysis
To counter Bush, the Democrats must present a different version of a safe world.
It is remarkable how closely Bush's discourse coincides with that of the false prophets of the Old Testament.
To Londoners, even many who did not oppose the war, Bush's visit felt like an assertion of absolute, arrogant power.
Bush now wants us to believe the Iraq war was about spreading freedom by force, but liars can't be liberators.
The various accounts offered by the White House are almost all inconsistent with one another.
Or at least change his cockamamie foreign policies.
Robert Scheer : Gay & Lesbian Issues & Activism
In America, it is a civil institution, not a religious one.
The Senegalese capital Dakar was put on lockdown mode for Bush's recent visit.
Robert Scheer : Condoleezza Rice
Is this Administration blatantly lying to the American people to secure its ideological ends?
Bush uses well-known linguistic techniques to make citizens feel dependent.
The White House is employing strategies akin to what America used to condemn about the Kremlin.
Eric Alterman : Office of Homeland Security
Thanks to Bush and Co., America is hated the world over as never before.
Next time you see a picture of a soldier caked with dust in the desert think of the CEOs cheering him on from the beaches in Bermuda.
David Corn : Conservatives & The American Right
Iraq is truly Bush's project. It could undo his presidency, or it could solidify his standing.
Jennifer Block : Reproductive Rights
Bush's international policies on reproductive health and rights have been a Christian fundamentalist's dream.
We cannot afford another division in our ranks that will help George W. Bush's re-election bid in 2004.
