[MCM] Top Dems, UN Rapporteur want BushCo PROSECUTED

The drive to prosecute Bush/Cheney for their many heinous crimes is suddenly respectable, as it always should have been. Amazingly, as Jason Leopold reports on Consortiumnews, Pelosi/Reid are now on board; and Scott Horton tells us that Manfred N

[MCM] NSA had US press under surveillance

Whistleblower: NSA Targeted Journalists, Snooped on All U.S. Communications By Kim Zetter January 22, 2009 http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/01/nsa-whistleblow.html Just one day after George W. Bush left office, an NSA whistleblower has revealed that the National Security Agency's warrantle

[MCM] A new piece on Mike Connell--with a caveat

Here's an article about Mike Connell's death, from the Cleveland Free Times, an alternative weekly. It's well worth reading, but you should take it with a giant grain of salt. The piece starts strong, with plenty of dramatic detail re: the night of Connell's death; and, throughout, it also offe

[MCM] Say NO to Gillibrand, New Yorkers!

From Raw Story: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Patterson_picks_Gillibrand_to_succeed_Clinton_0123.html And from Jeff Cohen: In a state with as many progressives as New York, are we getting yet another tepid, corporate-friendly Senator...this time APPOINTED, this time a big ally of the NRA??--j