David Swanson is co-founder of AfterDowningStreet.org and Washington Director of Democrats.com. He's also a board member of Progressive Democrats of America, the Backbone Campaign, and Voters for Peace as well as a member of the legislative working group of United for Peace and Justice.
The debate rages among experts on whether to escalate the escalation of Barack Obama’s “war of necessity” in Afghanistan—seemingly oblivious to American public opinion at home that has turned against waging the conflict at all. During even the best of times, Washington can be isolated from the rest of the country and world. Now the imperial city—and most of the politicians, both Democrat and Republican, who run it—seems to be reenacting an episode of the incomprehensible television series Lost.
White House Environmental Adviser Van Jones Resigns
Investigating Reports
By MWC NEWS
Tuesday, 08 September 2009
The Obama administration’s special adviser for environmental jobs, Van Jones, has resigned citing what he described as a “vicious smear campaign” against him. For the past month, Fox News has run a series of reports on Jones’s alleged association with communists and his decision to sign a petition calling for a congressional probe of the 9/11 attacks. Jones is the founding president of Green for All and author of the book The Green Collar Economy.
At least 28 people have been killed in flash floods in Istanbul, Turkey's largest city, which has left cars and trucks stranded across highways after the heaviest rain in the region in 80 years.
The US president has called on students across the country to focus on getting a good education, amid criticism from conservative groups and parents accusing him of trying to push his political agenda through the schools system.
A Western journalist has been freed and an Afghan reporter killed in a raid aimed at securing the pair's release from their Taliban captors in Afghanistan.
Annie Leibovitz, the world-renowned fashion, music and celebrity photographer, is facing a deadline to pay $24m in debt or risk losing her works and the rights to them.
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