Posted by
Curt Day on Saturday, June 14, 2008 12:59:08 AM
BEST
Candidates for the best news of the week includes, as usual, attempts to make the powerful accountable. These news stories include: 1) Kucinich calling for and promising to pursue the impeachment of President Bush; 2) McClellan saying he will testify in the Plame case; 3) Obama calling for windfall profit tax on Big Oil while a friend of mine suggested that the same tax is applied to those profiting off of corn; and 4) the Supreme Court ruling that Gitmo detainees now have the right to have their imprisonment reviewed in civilian courts.
The best news is the antiwar protests that Italian activists have been participating in Rome this week. Despite facing possible arrests, these activists are providing a shining example to the dying antiwar movement in America. It is time for antiwar activists here to assume nothing about what a Democratic President would do in Iraq and elsewhere. An excellent article about this was written by Anthony Arnove and can be found at: http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/17862.
WORST
Candidates for the worst news of the week revolve around killing or the possibility of killing. These stories include: 1) according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute report, spending on the military has increased almost 50% in the last decade throughout the world; 2) Israeli threats to attack Gaza; 3) clashes in Somalia that claimed 20 lives; and 4) Bush is threatening Iran by maintaining that all options are "on the table."
But the worst news is the report that US is financially pressuring Iraq into accepting over 50 permanent military bases. The financial pressure involves using tens of billions of dollars in seized Iraqi assets as leverage. Part of the American proposal includes that both American troops and contractors can act with impunity when fighting. This is Iraqi Freedom? While President Bush speaks words of deliverance and freedom, his actions seem to be lagging.
In news that did not make the wire services, I have started a new blog called "Flaming Fundamentalists For Peace." The website is:
http://flamingfundamentalist.blogspot.com/
The purpose of this second blog is to write about peace and war from a conservative Christian perspective. The blogroll has been copied over to this new site as well as some rss news feeds have been added. The blogroll at this townhall site cannot be updated because Townhall is experiencing technical problems. So please stand by.