Kevin Zeese
Articles by Kevin Zeese
July 15, 2009
Attorney General Holder Considering Appointment of Special Prosecutor But Devil is In the Details. We Need a Full-Fledged, Independent Investigation and Prosecution.
Reports over the weekend indicate that Attorney General Holder is seriously considering appointing a special prosecutor to inves...
November 26, 2008
The American taxpayer is on the hook for $7.7 billion. Are we getting our money's worth? This is the time to advocatefor the economy we want -- one that serves the interests of the people first. You´d think for $7.7 trillion we´d get health care for all, tax relief or free college education! But Americans got none of that. Is this a wise use of tax dollars? Are there better ways to use this money? Will this trickle down approach work this time, even though it has failed in the past?
November 21, 2008
Corporate controlled government is the root cause of the auto company crisis, just as it is the culprit the the problems in health care and the financial markets. Congress is not taking responsibility for its actions. Solving the auto crisis is an opportunity to create a new economy that puts the interests of the people first.
November 17, 2008
The G-20 met and had a gourmet dinner with $500 bottles of wine but did nothing to save the world economy. All measures of the economy showed declines -- rapid declines. The Fed and Treasury are acting without transparency -- hiding what they are doing. Paulsen is flailing, changing course, unsure and the Congress is in gridlock. The people need to get organized to demand the economy they want for the 21st Century.
October 27, 2008
Early voting is like watching an election meltdown in slow motion. Long lines, machine breakdowns, machines switching votes, machines not counting ballots, voter deception, registration fraud, challenges to voters . . . The U.S. democracy has a long way to go before it achieves its objectives of being the greatest on earth. You can take action now and after the election join in a democracy movement to make democracy work.
October 21, 2008
Since the bailout Wall Street has continued to party -- high on the hog -- and plans large slary payments and discretionary bonuses. The Treasury Department has been hiding key information from bailout watchdogs. Another economic stimulus is coming. It is an opportunity for Americans to create the economy they want: democratic, equitable and sustainable. But, it will only happen if people get organized and active. The time is now as change is on the way.
October 17, 2008
The United States cannot afford to rebuild its economy and continue two war-quagmires as well as expand the military budget. The U.S. needs to choose -- its economy or the military budget. It cannot afford both.
October 10, 2008
The multiple crisis faced by the United States are an opportunity to put in place the economy we want: a democratized economy where many profit from the wealth created; a new energy economy that is fossil-free/nuclear-free based on clean, sustainable energy and one that meets the necessities of the people rather than provides profits to mega corporations.
October 02, 2008
Progressives Push for Bankruptcy Reform and Economic Stimulus
See Below for the Action Step You Should Take Today: The Battle of the Bailout is Not Yet Over
The Senate voted 75-25 in favor of the bailout, with support from both sides of the aisle, essentially an even vote between Republicans ...
September 29, 2008
Sen. Obama expressed agreement with Sen. McCain more than a dozen times in 90 minutes. It seemed to serve him well as a debate tactic. But, was this the debate the United States needed? Why is the U.S. having such limited debates at such a critical time in our history?
September 24, 2008
Coordinated voter action is having an impact. The bailout can be stopped and alternatives to saving the U.S. economy can be put in place. But, we need people to act NOW to make a difference. And, we need you to urge others to join you in acting. We provide you the tools you need to take action. Take action today.
September 20, 2008
The Bailout may have saved the U.S. and world from a depression but it showed corporate-government at its worst. The taxpayers are paying for some of the most irresponsible financial risk taking in history. Those who profited will keep their profits while Americans carry the burden. The two corporate parties showed who they represent and it wasn't the people.
September 10, 2008
Polls Indicate Non-Duopoly Candidates Could Determine Outcome of the Election
Ron Paul held what he described as a "very important" press conference on September 10th in Washington, DC. The event brought four third party and independent candidates "together in unity" around a statement of princ...
September 09, 2008
Obama-Biden are behind McCain-Palin in post-convention polls. Obama needs the peace vote. The anti-war vote helped him win the nomination against Hillary Clinton, but Obama has taken the vote for granted. Can he get peace voters to support him? Does he deserve to? What should peace voters do?
September 06, 2008
The Republican Party put on a lot of false masks during their convention. They ran away from being Republicans, ran away from supporting President Bush and tried to protray themselves as reformers and change agents. In reality they will be advocates for the status quo who will continue the policies of Bush-Cheney. Of course, the Democrats wore their false masks as well. Time for voters to look behind the masks and see their real choices.
July 22, 2008
It is time to hold Sen. Obama accountable. He has called for ending the mindset of war. As he travels through the Middle East and Europe it is time for him to begin that process. Do Peace Voters have the courage of their convictions? Sign a petition to urge Sen. Obama to end the mindset of war.
July 15, 2008
The New Yorker examines the rise of Obama in Chicago politics and rather than finding a candidate of change, finds a candidate of the status quo. One who knocked opponents off the ballot by challenging signatures on petitions, redistricted his legislative district to his liking in Tom Delay style and stepped over allies when they got in the way. It is an article which raises the expectation that those wanting change are likely to be disapponted when Obama becomes president.
June 27, 2008
Nader criticzed Obama for not challenging the "white establishment." Obama responded by Criticizing Nader. But is Nader right? And, if he is will this be the issue that undermines his credibility with the voters?
June 21, 2008
Not only is Obama going to swamp McCain in funding now that he has abandoned the campaign finance system (one estimate of the Obama Campaign is it will have $600 million to spend compared to McCain's FEC limited $85 million) but it looks like Sen. Obama will not have to deal with the Swift Boat vers...
June 16, 2008
In the two articles below Linda Schade and Kevin Zeese make the case that the new energy economy -- the green economy -- is the key to urban america's come back. In fact, as the realities of expensive oil and climate change hit the U.S. is going to have to move to more local economies, more densly ...
June 13, 2008
The candidates are selected. Neither Obama or McCain will end the Iraq war, take military action against Iran off the table and both will expand the size of the U.S. military. Neither is a peace candidate. What is a peace voter to do?
April 14, 2008
Tell Your Congressman to Vote for HR 5036 "The Emergency Election Assistance for Secure Elections Act"
Majority Leader Steny Hoyer has scheduled a House Floor vote on "The Emergency Election Assistance for Secure Elections Act" for this Tuesday.
The bill would provide states with funds ...
April 08, 2008
Three legitimate third party-independent campaigns will all be urging a real end to the Iraq occupation while the two parties put forward candidates that will not end the occupation. Two-thirds of American voters side with the independent campaigns. The Democrats, in particular, better watch out as they are counting on the peace vote. If they want that vote they better work for it and support a real end to the Iraq occupation.
April 03, 2008
Sen. Obama has been given the title of peace candidate by the corporate media but he recently said he would leave 140,000 U.S. mercenaries in Iraq, tens of thosands of non-combat troops and keep combat troops in the region to serve as a strike force. He will also keep the gigantic U.S. Embassy and the long-term military bases. This is not a withdrawal, it is an ongoing occupation. Is it time for the peace movement to protest Obama?
March 31, 2008
The peace movement needs to stay unified during the election year as no matter who is elected unified action will be required to end the war and prevent future unecessary wars. The way to stay unified is to push all candidates to really ending the war. None of the Democrats or Republicans currently do so.
March 05, 2008
Major Player in Military Contracts Seeks to Buy Diebold
For the last two years United Technologies has been seeking to purchase the Diebold Corporation. Diebold´s main business is ATM machines but, it is the manufacturer of election equipment under the name Premier Election Solutions. It...
February 22, 2008
McCain´s Only Path to the White House is Pro-War Thereby Ensuring a Debate on U.S. Militarism
Senator John McCain has only one issue with the chance of uniting the Republican base and presenting a challenge to the Democrats in the General Election – war and more of it.
Senator McCain d...
February 12, 2008
Former Presidential Candidate Who Advocated Peace and Impeachment Facing Well-Financed Challenge at Home.
On the Hill some call it being McKinney´d – the treatment Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney received when she was in Congress. Twice, rather than protecting the inc...
February 04, 2008
2008 Campaign shows necessity to build a movement for fundamental change away from militarism.
The issue on which Sen. Obama scored the most points in the January 31st debate with Sen. Clinton was the Iraq occupation. While Iraq has been pushed from the front pages, despite continued ca...
December 21, 2007
Huckabee Would Open a New Chapter in War Against “Islamic Extremism.”
Governor Mike Huckabee is leading the pack in the campaign to be the standard bearer for the Republican Party. Is the Republican Party, and the United States, ready to have a commander in chief who is an evangelical Baptist C...
November 29, 2007
Peace voters have choices in 2008, will they have the courage to support peace candidates?
In recent debates the candidates were asked whether they will support the nominee of their party. Despite increasingly harsh rhetoric between the candidates only two candidates had the courage to put pe...
November 02, 2007
An Interview with independent journalist Dahr Jamail “The bogus idea that if the U.S. leaves things will worsen is both inherently racist and ignorant.”
Dahr Jamail’s MidEast Dispatches, which can be seen at http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com, are essential reading for anyone who wants to under...
September 16, 2007
The Power of the Truth and the Power of the People are Synergistic.
Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave When First We Practice to Deceive
This war started on a pack of lies and continues with more lies piled on. To end this war we must break the tangled web of deceit with the truth.
The lies ...
September 10, 2007
The People vs. the Establishment: Peace March on September 15th Scares the Powers that Be Because the People Have The Power to End the War
The Washington, DC establishment is coming to a conclusion – we’re staying in Iraq. There is only one thing that can change that conclusion – the power of ...
Iraq Vets Let Americans Know the Brutal Reality of U.S. Occupation While Bush Gray-Washes “Progress”
July 15, 2007
While the Bush administration is trying to paint an improving picture in Iraq, veterans of the Iraq occupation are finding their voice. And, they are painting a picture of the U.S. role in Iraq that demonstrates why it is urgent for the United States to withdraw.
The voices of Iraq Vets ha...
July 03, 2007
With this type of priority no wonder U.S. policy is so counterproductive to real national security.
If you have heard Rev. Lennox Yearwood speak against the continued occupation of Iraq and express outrage at how Katrina has been handled you have no doubt been in inspired. He is a speaker in t...
June 26, 2007
As President Bush and members of his administration described the “South Korea Model” as an approach for Iraq, deaths in Iraq mounted. In the same week General Patraeus said he saw a ten year stay in Iraq as likely and Ted Koppel reported that Sen. Clinton will not remove the troops. The message n...
June 11, 2007
The U.S. military has decided to provide arms to Sunni Arab groups some of who have been suspected of involvement in attacks on Americans. This act of desperation shows the deceit in any claims of success of the “surge.” The DoD would not be taking this risky approach if the U.S. military strategy...
June 11, 2007
Oil Law Brings Theft of Resources Out in the Open, Oil Workers Strike Forces Maliki to Choose Between Iraqis and the Occupiers.
The situation in Iraq is coming to a head. Oil workers have been on strike for three days and are being threatened by the Iraqi government and surrounded by the Iraqi...
May 23, 2007
An Interview with Terry Paupp.
Terry Paupp is the author of Exodus from Empire: The Fall of America's Empire and the Rise of the Global Community. The book examines the downfall of the American Empire, its impact on the world community and what world order will take its place. Paupp has been a...
May 14, 2007
Peace Moms Cindy Sheehan and Tina Richards Among Them.
Summer of Action Begins – SWARM on Congress to Last to July 31.
After rallying in Lafayette Park across the street from the White House more than 250 anti-war advocates marched through Washington, DC to Capitol Hill. When they reached th...
May 11, 2007
Both Parties Attempt to Shift the Blame to Iraqis Rather Than Accept Their Shared Responsibility for the Iraq Quagmire.
The 2008 elections for Congress and the presidency seem to be the dominant domestic factor in determining the outcome of the Iraq War. The Democrats are using the war to posi...
May 03, 2007
Join the Summer of Action in Washington, DC.
In reaction to President Bush’s veto the Democrats are reportedly caving in to give him a Iraq War funding without any obligation to end the war. They are making Bush “the decider” once again. It seems that rather than having a lame duck presiden...
April 29, 2007
While the Senate was voting 51-46 to approve $95 billion more in war funding, in a bill that included a loophole ridden withdrawal plan, inside the Hart Senate office building more than 75 anti-war demonstrators participated in a dramatic demonstration.
You can see a video of this demonstration a...
April 18, 2007
An Interview with Caitlin Esworthy of the Port Militarization Resistance of Olympia.
Recently, a friend moved to the U.S. from China. She had never seen the Tiananmen Sq. demonstrations including that famous scene of the lone demonstrator standing in front of the Chinese tank. I thought how a...
April 16, 2007
A Conversation Between Kevin Martin of Peace Action, Sue Udry of United for Peace and Justice, and Kevin Zeese of Democracy Rising and VotersForPeace.
As the effort to end the Iraq War and occupation reaches a critical phase – the Democrats response to the veto of the supplemental – I had a con...
April 12, 2007
Women are facing widespread sexual harassment and even rape by their male comrades in the military. The threat of sexual violence against female soldiers by their male colleagues is so great that women are warned not to out to the bathroom alone at night. This has resulted in women stopping drinki...
March 29, 2007
Sets “Goal” of March Redeployment But Loopholes Ensure Tens of Thousands of Troops Will Remain; The Real Issue: Will Democrats Resuscitate Bush by Caving into His Veto or Continue to Challenge Him or Is Bush Lame or the Congress?
While the headlines will read that the Senate voted to withdraw U....
March 14, 2007
Tina Richards, the mother of a Marine facing his third deployment to Iraq is continuing her efforts to pressure Democrats to end the war. After her chance encounter with Rep. David Obey in a Capitol Hill hallway she returned this week to meet with him and met with his staff to get clarification of ...
March 12, 2007
The “Democratic Supplemental” Fails to Deal with Iran and Has Big Loopholes That Will Leave Tens of Thousands or More Troops in Iraq.
The Democrats took the majority of both the House and Senate on January 4th, 2007 since then 192 members of the Armed Services have died as have countless Iraq...
March 09, 2007
It is no longer enough to oppose the war, now it is time to end it.
Tina Richards son, Cloy, is a corporal in the U.S. Marines. He is facing his third tour of duty in Iraq. He and his mother oppose the war. Ms. Richards is living in Maryland lobbying Congress to end the war. She has joined ...
March 03, 2007
The Peace Movement Needs to Demand the Democrats End the War.
Rep. Chris Van Hollen is the head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. It is his job to preserve and expand the Democrats majority in Congress in 2008. Rep. Van Hollen is also my congressman. So, this week when he he...
February 26, 2007
Senator Mike Gravel is running a populist anti-war campaign for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party. Gravel, who is no novice to Washington, DC politics, is direct and clear in his views on the war. And, he has a long history of fighting unjust wars and seeking to return power to t...
February 26, 2007
The 2006 election showed the Republican Party that opposition to the Iraq War was the dominant political issue of the year – trumping all others. Their failure to understand voter anger over the war cost them the majority in the House and Senate. Candidates are now learning that the war is continui...
February 14, 2007
Is Non-binding Resolution a Predecessor to Restricting War Funding?
The House is in the midst of debate over the Iraq War – three days of debate on the floor of the House of Representatives over whether the Congress supports the surge. The outcome is pre-ordained – the House will oppose the sur...
February 14, 2007
An interview with Anthony Arnove.
Anthony Arnove is the editor, with Howard Zinn, of Voices of a People’s History of the United States. He is also the editor of Iraq Under Siege: The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War and of Terrorism and War, a collection of post–September 11 interviews with H...
February 03, 2007
Leadership putting loyalty to Bush before loyalty to the voters; will Sen. John Warner be the next ‘Macaca’ from Virginia?
The Republican leadership seems poised to take their party over the cliff. Sen. John Warner has successfully manipulated the Senate so that it will not make a strong stateme...
February 01, 2007
The answer shows Congress has the power, indeed the responsibility to address the issue. And, if it wants to stop a war with Iran, it better take action to do so.
Senator Russell Feingold (D-WI) brought together a panel of legal scholars, many with experience in the executive and legislative bran...
January 31, 2007
Senator’s strongly pro-military voting record, Vietnam experience and potential presidential run make him a voice that is being heard.
Last week Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) spoke with strength, clarity and emotion about the need for every senator to take a stand on the Iraq War. There are moments ...
January 26, 2007
Series of polls finds little confidence in Bush or Democrats; Voters want Democrats to stop the “surge” by withholding funding. Majority favors withdrawal.
If the message of November 7th wasn’t clear, a series of polls in January are – growing opposition to the Iraq war, majority support for re...
January 18, 2007
One set of voices rarely heard in the United States are the voices of Iraqi’s, what do they think about the U.S. military presence in their country? What do they think should be done about the U.S. staying in Iraq? How do they see this conflict being resolved? What do they think about dividing Iraq...
January 09, 2007
Interviews with Cindy Sheehan and David Swanson on next steps for the anti-war movement.
The Iraq War and occupation is at a critical moment. The peace movement needs to be focused to face the challenges before us. This article will be the first in a series reporting on interviews of anti-war ...
January 02, 2007
Ending the occupation will reduce violence, immediately save more than $100 billion and respect the wishes of the American people. Why is Washington, DC ignoring the obvious?
If the election results did not make the message clear, polls since the election have done so. Support for sending addi...
January 02, 2007
Interview with the Citizens’ Hearing on the
Legality of U.S. Actions in Iraq
“Civilian citizen's have an obligation to do more especially so in time of 'war'.”
Below is an interview of Dr. Zoltan Grossman who is a Member of the Faculty in Geography/Native Studies at Evergreen State Colleg...
December 19, 2006
Indications are Bush is moving toward more troops, with Democratic leadership support, now Joint Chiefs of Staff reportedly opposes an increase in troops in Iraq. Washington, DC is confused in the face of military defeat.
It is time to face the facts and leave.
George Bush, aka the Decider, s...
December 14, 2006
Can an anti-war candidate be successful in a pro-war party?
On December 12, 2006 the anti-war movement got a standard bearer on the road to the White House. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, former mayor of Cleveland (the youngest person ever elected to be mayor of a major city) and a five term Congressman...
December 06, 2006
Half Measures Seem Less Dangerous, But Are Often MoresoAn Interview with William Polk, Author of "Out of Iraq"
William Polk is co-author with George McGovern of "Out of Iraq" and can be purchased on Amazon and at many other outlets. He taught at Harvard University from 1955 to 1961 when Preside...
December 02, 2006
Interview with Michael Isikoff co-author of Hubris.
The interview below is of Michael Isikoff, the co-author of "Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War." His co-author is David Corn of the Nation. Hubris describes the build-up to the Iraq War and details the...
November 29, 2006
The Peace Movement Needs to Hold Congress Responsible if the War Continues.
The Democrats reaped the benefit of voter anger at the Iraq war and occupation on November 7 and regained control of both chambers of Congress. Will the Democrats satisfy the desire to end the Iraq War? Sadly, the ini...
November 21, 2006
“Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.”
Since the death last week of Milton Friedman I’ve been thinking about the times that my life crossed paths with his. I’ve got a photograph on my bookshelf of me with him at the conference of the Drug Policy Foundati...
November 18, 2006
Former Senator and U.S. presidential candidate George McGovern came to Capitol Hill to advocate for a responsible exit from Iraq. He spoke at an event organized by the Congressional Progressive Caucus of staffers and advocates on November 16, 2006 in the Congress. He was joined by his colleague and...
September 26, 2006
At a September 18 Palestine Center briefing, Kevin Zeese addresses the problems with U.S. foreign policy towards the Middle East and discusses possible solutions. He argues that until the United States can break its addiction to oil, begin using alternative energy resources and stop its one-sided re...
September 08, 2006
Join World Can’t Wait on October 5, 2006 and Help Spark an End to Bushism!
Interview with Debra Sweet of World Can’t Wait
Debra Sweet is the National Coordinator of World Can't Wait. Richard Nixon refused to speak to the press for six months after the US invasion of Cambodia. When he finally...
September 06, 2006
A Bush Administration insider, Flint Leverett, who served in the CIA, State Department and Bush White House, had some harsh things to say about the direction of foreign policy in the Middle East on September 5 at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC.
In a virtual indictment of Mid-East ...
August 31, 2006
Interview with Sheldon Rampton: “Lies got us into this war. Only the truth will get us out.”
Sheldon Rampton is the co-author of “The Best War Ever: Lies, Damned Lies, and the Mess in Iraq” along with John Stauber. The book examines the Iraq War, how we got in, how it has been carried out and ...
August 28, 2006
Interview with David Swanson: “This is do-or-die time for the people of this country”
Camp Democracy, an outgrowth of Camp Casey in Crawford, TX, will be coming to Washington, DC this Fall to put the spotlight on the Iraq War and other issues. The mid-term elections have shown the power of opposi...
August 17, 2006
The US Anti-War Movement Must Oppose Expanded War in the Middle East.
The dividing line between peace candidates and pro-war candidates is no longer opposition to the Iraq War – a view now held by large majorities of Americans. It is whether they oppose the pre-meditated destruction of Lebanon ...
July 03, 2006
The vibrancy of American culture is seen on its virtual Main Street – the Internet. But, now the big telecom companies want to change that and the House of Representatives is ready to help them.
The Internet has been open and independent – a place for immense human creativity. It has produced s...
July 03, 2006
An Interview with Max Diorio
One of the most powerful groups of voices in opposition to the occupation of Iraq is U.S. soldiers who come home and speak out. In particular, those who become so disillusioned and disgusted by the Iraq occupation that they refuse to return provide a special power th...
July 03, 2006
Is talk of withdrawal, just the same old election year deception?
In recent weeks there has been a shift in the views of the American public, as well as in the actions of elected officials, U.S. military leaders and the Iraqi leadership. The shift in all areas is toward withdrawal of U.S. troop...
May 09, 2006
How the Iraq occupation embedded US corporations into the Iraq economy, satisfying a multi-decade design on Iraq's oil wealth
The roots of the economic takeover of Iraq are long and deep. They became more aggressive after the strongest U.S. ally in the region, the Shah of Iran, was deposed in th...
April 22, 2006
The message is clear. Indeed, it's gigantic for all Iraqi's, for the entire world to see. A 100 acre compound – ten times the size of the typical U.S. embassy, the size of 80 football fields, six times larger than the UN, the size of Vatican City. The U.S. Embassy Compound, in the middle of Baghdad ...
April 17, 2006
James George Abourezk (born February 24, 1931) was a Democratic United States Representative and United States Senator, and was the first Arab-American to serve in the Senate. He represented South Dakota in the U.S. Senate from 1973 until 1979. Abourezk is of Lebanese descent, and was born in Wood, ...
April 14, 2006
Seymour Hersh's extensive article describing plans to attack Iran, including the use of tactical nuclear weapons, has forced President Bush to respond. Two days after Hersh's article appeared, President Bush came forward to deny any intent to attack Iran ? calling such claims 'wild speculation.'
H...
April 12, 2006
An Interview with Fifteen Term Congressman Andy Jacobs.
Andy Jacobs, Jr. was born in Indianapolis in 1932, served in the House of Representatives for 15 terms, and as a result knows how Washington, DC operate. Mr. Jacobs served in Congress with President Bush I. He is a former Marine and saw heav...
March 31, 2006
Recent efforts by President Bush to challenge the nomination of Prime Minister Ibrahim Jafari and an attack by U.S. soldiers in Iraq on a Shiite mosque has created great controversy in Iraq. Divisions between the United States and Shiite leadership are growing at the same time that U.S. rhetoric on ...
March 28, 2006
We are in the midst of a military quagmire in Iraq – a conflict that is costing precious American and Iraqi lives, leaving hundreds of thousands of Americans and Iraqis seriously injured, costing the United States more than a billion dollars a week with no end in site and feeding anti-Americanism ar...
March 25, 2006
Will the Congress Stand Up to the President or Alienate the Voters?
President George W. Bush said in a press conference on March 21, 2006 that U.S. troops will still be in Iraq after his presidency ends in 2009. Asked when all U.S. forces would finally pull out of Iraq, Bush told a White House new...
March 17, 2006
A new national poll shows that a near majority of voters either strongly or somewhat agree with a pledge not to vote for pro-war candidates. This makes the anti-war movement's potential impact on elections larger than pro-gun, anti-abortion, or anti-gay marriage voters. Politicians will have to pay ...
February 28, 2006
Nearly Three-Quarters of US Troops in Iraq Say End the Occupation Within a Year.
A unique poll of active duty troops in Iraq shows a huge disconnect between the Commander in Chief and his troops in battle. It is evident that the President views the war very differently then the troops on the groun...
February 16, 2006
Maryland Illegally Used Uncertified Software in 2004 Election, Misled Media and Continues to Cover for Diebold
Maryland, the staunchest hold-out for paperless voting is about to change. Yesterday, Governor Robert Ehrlich joined the leadership of the Democratic Party to support a voter verified pap...
February 06, 2006
Maryland's premeditated killing of Vernon Evans was stayed by the Maryland Court of Appeals this Monday. The State's use of the power to kill another human should be a time for reflection by Maryland and the nation. Do we want to be a nation of executioners? Do we want to participate in killing peop...
February 06, 2006
An Interview with Activist David Swanson
David Swanson is an anti-war advocate who works many forums to try to end the war. If you want to know what you can do to stop the war, David presents ideas below. He is a model for other to emulate. He is the Washington Director of Democrats.com and of Imp...
February 03, 2006
Bush drew the lines for the 2006 mid-term elections in the State of the Union. The Republicans will be making the campaign about national security. Throughout the speech, the Democrats being the loyal opposition, with an emphasis on loyal, obediently stood for repeated standing ovations.
While pro...
January 31, 2006
On May 31st last year Ralph Nader and I wrote in the Boston Globe: “Based on the mountains of fabrications, deceptions, and lies, it is time to debate the 'I' word.”
Today, I would say it differently: The President and Vice President have so clearly violated the rule of law and so systematically a...
January 24, 2006
Retired General William Odom, who served as a national security adviser to President Ronald Reagan, spoke last Thursday to the Committee for the Republic in Washington, DC. He described the Iraq War as a historic blunder that the United States should end.
Most of General Odom's presentation dealt...
January 19, 2006
The nomination of Samuel Alito is the Supreme test for the Democrats. They have the power to stop this nomination but if they fail to to so they should expect minority party status for a long time to come.
The Supreme Court will once again have “four horses of the apocalypse” -- four partisan just...
January 11, 2006
Interview with Maria Allwine of Baltimore's Iraq Pledge of Resistance
The Baltimore-based chapter of the national Iraq Pledge of Resistance is an anti-war organization working for peace by challenging people in power, educating the public and getting citizens to take action. In the interview below...
January 09, 2006
Interview with Susan Oehler of Today in Iraq
At the end of last year I came across an excellent website, "Today in Iraq." What caught my eye was an email about "This day in history of Iraq" that highlighted the handshake between Donald Rumsfeld and Saddam Hussein on December 20, 1983. Six bloggers...
January 05, 2006
According to a poll of Military Times readers, support for President Bush's leadership as commander-in-chief and support for the war in Iraq is dropping among the U.S. military. Over the course of the last year support for the Iraq War dropped 9 percent, and barely a majority, 54 percent, view the c...
December 21, 2005
While President Bush was able to use the Iraq election to temporarily bolster his political support in the United States, the sad reality is the election is very likely to do more harm to Iraq than good. In reality the election is a victory for people and countries that Bush defines as enemies of th...
December 19, 2005
Tony Benn, was born in London on April 3rd 1925, the son, grandson and father of Members of Parliament. He entered Parliament in 1950 at the age of 25 and retired from the House of Commons in May 2001. He is the longest serving Labor MP in the history of the party. He was a Cabinet minister in the W...
December 16, 2005
The World Affairs Council held an event in Washington, DC entitled “The Endgame in Iraq” on December 12. But the presentations made it sound like the United States will be in Iraq one way or another for a very, long time. None of the panelists was an advocate for immediate withdrawal or even withdra...
December 13, 2005
Major Worldwide Demonstrations Planned for Third Anniversary of Iraq War
Andrew Murray the Chair of the Stop the War Coalition opened a conference in London on December 10th describing it as an “historic event” that brings together peace activists from around the world. Indeed, the conference incl...
November 29, 2005
Last year President Bush made a surprise visit to the troops in Iraq, put on an Army jacket and served the troops a turkey. The photograph and video of a smiling president serving the loyal troops was played throughout the country – over and over. Only later did we discover that the service was a st...
November 18, 2005
Now Rep. Pelosi Must Lead Democrats, Republicans Must Separate from Bush
For months, those of us who work Capitol Hill on the Iraq War have heard that Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), the leader of the Democratic Party in the House, could not go further on anti-war efforts because the right flank of the Democ...
November 15, 2005
Former Senator John Edwards who ran for Vice President with John Kerry, has sent an email to his supporters saying ?It was a mistake to vote for this war in 2002.? The email, which was published as a column in The Washington Post, admits that ?Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction when our f...
November 07, 2005
While Cindy Sheehan has deservedly gotten a lot of attention for reawakening the anti-war movement with her allies from veteran and military family organizations, the especially interesting thing about the opposition to the Iraq War is that it includes former military leaders, former national securi...
October 31, 2005
After two years of thorough, aggressive investigation Patrick Fitzgerald is unable to say whether or not there was a plan at the White House to leak the name of Valerie Plame-Wilson in an effort to undermine her husband Joseph Wilson. So far, the obstruction of justice has been successful.
The in...
October 26, 2005
Recently there have been signs of hope that some Democrats in Congress who oppose the war are getting stronger in their opposition. There continue to be problems with the leadership of both parties, particularly the inexplicable inaction by Democratic Party leader Nancy Pelosi, but those who oppose ...
October 24, 2005
?It wouldn't surprise me if the election was rigged,? said a U.S. Army officer in Mosul who requested anonymity from Time and who worked on security arrangements for the poll with Iraqi security and election officials. ?I don't even trust our election process.?
If democracy is supposed to provide ...
October 23, 2005
Recently, on the anti-Bush, Democratic Party leaning website Daily Kos published an open letter urging me to run as a Democrat for U.S. Senate in Maryland rather than independent of the two political parties. Below is my response to the suggestion.
Dear Daily Kosers:
Elections should be about cu...
October 01, 2005
Recent weeks have been mostly good news for the anti-war movement and mostly bad news for the 'stay the course' occupiers. The recent successes of the anti-war movement provide a foundation on which to build, too escalate efforts and let politicians who support the war know that their political care...
September 28, 2005
Kevin Zeese Speech at University of Maryland, September 28, 2005 with Cindy Sheehan
This Iraq War – based on lies and manipulations – is a defining issue of our times, it has undermined the noble purpose of this great country, it has destroyed our moral compass and it has embarrassed us before th...
September 15, 2005
As I watched the scenes on television -- soldiers driving by dead bodies in the street, wayward people looking like refugees, soldiers pointing their guns at civilians -- I could not help but think of Baghdad, but it was New Orleans. The reports of people on the ground were even worse:
“Police d...
September 06, 2005
Interview with Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich, along with fellow Democrat Neil Abercrombie (D-HI) and Republicans Walter Jones (R-NC) and Ron Paul (R-TX), introduced the first bi-partisan bill calling for an exit strategy from Iraq (H.J.Res. 55). Around this bill and other Iraq withdrawal effort...
August 29, 2005
On August 6, just after the Veterans for Peace conference in Dallas, Cindy Sheehan and a handful of veterans camped out in a ditch alongside of a road outside of President Bush's ranch in Crawford, TX. They came unprepared in an unplanned protest – their only light was a flashlight – their only plac...
August 22, 2005
Just as President Bush claimed in the build-up to war that the U.S. was threatened by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and Saddam's connection to Osama bin Laden and 9/11 terrorists – we are now being told a new falsehood – U.S. troops are in Iraq to stabilize the country. Even the slightest scrat...
August 19, 2005
Tom Hayden is an anti-war activist who most recently was the lead author of “The Peoples Petition for Iraqi Peace.” He was a leader of the student, civil rights and anti-war movements in the Sixties, and the environmental and anti-nuclear movements in the Seventies. He served in the California Assem...
August 18, 2005
Summer, especially August, has not been good to the U.S. commander in chief. While on a 35 day vacation in Crawford he has been unable to find time to meet with Cindy Sheehan, the mother of Casey – a soldier killed in Iraq. His refusal to meet with Ms. Sheehan diminishes him – showing weakness and i...
July 22, 2005
First it was Walter Jones (R-NC) who began to speak out in favor of an exit strategy for Iraq. Now there are nine. This is still a trickle – but it is a growing one. And as the support for the war decreases, evidence of the failure of the occupation and the increased risk the occupation poses to ...
July 19, 2005
G8 Plants Seeds of Future Wars By Failing to Deal with Global Warming
The seeds for future military conflict were sown in Scotland when the G8 recognized that Global Climate Change was a reality but did not put in place policies or a process that will deal with the issue in the urgent way needed....
July 13, 2005
Pressure Mounting from Inside and Outside Iraq as 2006 Elections Come Within Sight
The pressure for an exit strategy in Iraq is mounting. In the U.S., Great Britain and Iraq talk of an exit strategy is increasing. Robert Novak, the columnist who fingered Valerie Plume as a CIA agent, wrote on...
July 11, 2005
States Take Action to Protect their Soldiers and Veterans: An Interview with Bob Smith of Louisiana
Louisiana recently passed legislation to all returning veterans to have the right to get a best practices health screening test for exposure to depleted uranium. Interviewed here is Bob Smith, one...
June 24, 2005
Counter-Recruitment: Preventing the Military from Getting More Youth for their Wars
An Interview with Counter-Recruitment Activist Clint Coppernoll
The Army and National Guard have been failing to meet their recruiting goals for the last four months. Summer is typically the time they have the...
June 22, 2005
Bush Administration Psychological Warfare Against the U.S.?
An Interview with (ret.) Colonel Sam Gardiner describes “ what propaganda literature would refer to as the big lie.”
Sam Gardiner has taught strategy and military operations at the National War College, Air War College and Naval War ...
June 17, 2005
June 17 Speech by Kevin Zeese at Lafayette Park Downing Street Rally
Who thinks that President Bush misled us - lied to us - bamboozled us into invading and occupying Iraq?
He told Americans there were unmanned Iraqi aircraft that could drop bombs over our cities. His own intelligence agencie...
June 15, 2005
Now Seven Leaked British Documents Raise Iraq War Questions
The Downing Street Memo - minutes of a meeting with Prime Minister Tony Blair and his advisors that said the U.S. was "fixing" the intelligence to support the Iraq War - was not enough to get the mainstream U.S. media or members of Congr...