Republic Not Empire

2008-02-26T09:43:00.003-05:00

Hi Impeachment People & Greens,1) From The True Majority: Please call your Senators to tell them thedebate on Iraq is over; bring the troops home; and demand a report onour actions toward Al Qaeda. SEE BELOW2) Emily West argues that the flaws of Massachusetts' health carelegislation prove that the single-payer plan is best nationally. SEEBELOW3) Zee Source offers all sorts of information on

935 Bush Administration lies, emergency legislation provisions, and getting the Judiciary Committee to act

2008-01-26T02:26:00.000-05:00

Hi Impeachment People & Greens:There are 3 articles here:1) First an article on a study of the Administration's lies about Iraq from Sept 11, 2001 to March, 2003, to justify the occupation of Iraq find 935 lies, 259 of them by Bush, 254 by Powell, the rest by Rice, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Fleischer, and McClellan. This documentation should be good for impeachment, for fraud cases against them, and

January 15 & 16 is Impeachment Call-in Day

2008-01-16T13:33:00.001-05:00

Hi Folks,This is the culmination of John Nirenberg's walk from Fanueil Hall inBoston adn Wexler's drive to get the Judiciary Committee to begininvestigating Cheney. Please help out. It's the best chance we've gotnow.Richard---------- Forwarded message ----------From: Emily West Date: Jan 15, 2008 1:05 PMSubject: January 15 & 16 is Impeachment Call-in DayTo: emiwest@

Green nomination, "Cheney's Law, ACLU impeachment resolution

2008-01-15T23:19:00.001-05:00

1) On Sunday the Green Party of Fairfield County nominated me to runfor Congress. Apparently some papers have reported this but I have notseen the articles yet. David Bedell's press release is good (see belowat 1), but do not expect it to be printed without alteration. Do notexpect the event to have been well reported and do not expectquotations to be accurate.For the next week or so my postings

Green Party Congressional Candidate Questionnaire

2008-01-13T01:38:00.001-05:00

Hi, Greens and Impeachment People:The Green nominating convention is at 1 pm TODAY, Sunday, January 13,at the Norwalk Public Library auditorium, 1 Belden Place, Norwalk.Hope you will come. All currently registered Greens of the 4thCongressional District (which is ALMOST the same as Fairfield County)can vote.The Connecticut Green website defines eligibility to vote more broadlythan most parties do

Over-consumption & Gravel's assessment of Democratic Party

2008-01-12T18:16:00.001-05:00

Impeachment People & Greens,This message has two parts. 1) First there are exchanges about themessage yesterday on over-consumption. 2) Then there is an interviewHarold Burbank found: the Real News Network interviews Mike Gravel onthe condition of the Democratic Party.I aim to post an email later tonight very briefly answering thequestions the New Haven Green Party ask candidates. It should be

Do we really want to try to own the world?

2008-01-12T03:04:00.006-05:00

Hi Impeachment People and Greens:For the last few months, I have focused only on issues most closely related to impeachment. I have put impeachment first because oaths of office require it and we because without it, everything good will always rest on an unstable footing. But impeachment is a thresholdissue, not a goal or end, but only a means. Now that I'm talking to both impeachment people and

Impeachment can be quick & the Phony Persian Gulf Incident

2008-01-10T22:52:00.001-05:00

Dear Impeachment Folk and Greens:The following three messages are enlightening on our ability toimpeach and the need to impeach. Steve Fournier argues in detail thatimpeachment need not take much time or energy at this point. It'ssimply a matter of the willingness of Congress to do its clear duty.The second article exposes a Bush Administration attempt tomanufacture an incident to justify

1) The Treason Charge & 2) Consequences of Over-Comsumption

2008-01-09T23:23:00.001-05:00

Hi Impeachment Folk and Greens:This message has three short articles:1) David Lindorff: 9-11 Cover-Up, Treason, & The Bomb2) Jared Diamond's NYTimes op ed on our consumption factors—asbackground for my message.3) Thomas Higgins' reply to Jared Diamond—also as background.The first one has far-reaching implications for impeachment because itbegins to document the charge that Bush and Cheney have

exxchanges on impeachment and Green candidacy

2008-01-09T02:02:00.001-05:00

Dear Impeachment Folks and Greens,This email has 5 parts.1) A brief reply to Russ Gilfix.2) Phyllis Mason's reply to Russ Gilfix regarding impeachment.3) Kathleen Kimmich's (Kate Tepper's) email to me opposing a Greencandidacy for Congress.4) My response to her message and a question for her.5) Her response to me.6) My response to her.The next message will be about how we consume the world's

Resonses from Harold Burbank & Russ Gilfix

2008-01-07T14:20:00.001-05:00

Impeachment Folk and Greens:Two new items in this debate running up to the Green nominatingconvention. I am adopting the policy of posting statements in theorder in which they are submitted to me.1) Harold Burbank submitted a statement at 10:39 a.m. this morning.2) Russ Gilfix sent a statement at 12:34 this afternoon. I aim to readand answer it by tomorrow.Richard Duffee1) From Harold Burbank:

responses to Russ Gilfix re Jim Himes

2008-01-06T16:33:00.000-05:00

Hi Impeachment people and Greens,There are two responses to Russ Gilfix's message of January 2 here.The first, a short one, is from Phyllis Mason. The second, long one,is from me.1) Dear Mr. Gilfix:I have read your exhaustive complaint to Richard Duffee with regard tohis running for office in opposition to Mr. Himes. Mr. Himes may be anexcellent candidate for office in many respects, but to me,

Bush and Cheney's criminality: Larson evades all 12 of Fournier's questions

2008-01-05T13:16:00.001-05:00

Hi, Impeachment Folk and Greens—and Jim Himes & Russ Gilfix,On Wednesday, January 2, I sent an open letter to Jim Himes. Theletter had 22 questions and the National Lawyers' Guild's impeachmentcharges were attached. I haven't received a response from Mr. Himes.I mentioned in the letter that I would send him a list of questions onBush and Cheney's impeachable criminality that phrased the issues

Russ Gilfix response to Open letter to Jim Himes

2008-01-03T11:59:00.001-05:00

Hi, Impeachment People & Greens:I just received this from Russ Gilfix of Democracy for America. Ishould have time to respond on Saturday.Richard DuffeeOn Jan 3, 2008 11:40 AM, Russ Gilfix wrote:> Richard, perhaps you will distribute my own brief response to your open> letter to the rest of your Impeachment email group:>>> Richard et al,>> In opening let me first clarify

James Lovelock finds global warming irreversible

2008-01-03T11:50:00.001-05:00

Hi, Impeachment Folk and Greens,John Amarilios found the following article on James Lovelock'scalculations on global warming and sent it to David Bedell. David sentit to me. I'm sending it to you with John's introduction. I think itis essential reading for the 2008 election.RichardDate: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:19:54 -0400From: jamarilios@gmail.comSubject: Billions Will Perish ? -What impresses me

Open letter to Jim Himes & Green convention Jan 13

2008-01-02T23:48:00.001-05:00

Hi, Impeachment Folk & Greens,This message is essentially an open letter to Jim Himes. It seems hemay seek the Green Party's endorsement for Congress. Because theletter (1) concludes with a request that he examine the case forimpeachment in detail, it also has (2) the National Lawyers Guild'sresolution for impeachment, which some of you may know. (3) BecauseMr. Himes and/or Democrats who support

Alert: Join Wexler in Calling for Impeachment, Facebook Groups Extension, and More

2007-12-31T14:51:00.001-05:00

Hi, Impeachment Person--Here's something we can do:---------- Forwarded message ----------From: The Pen Date: Dec 30, 2007 1:20 AMSubject: Alert: Join Wexler in Calling for Impeachment, FacebookGroups Extension, and MoreTo: richard.duffee@gmail.comPeople Are Starting To Really Speak Out Now On ImpeachmentThe Kucinich resolution, H.Res. 799, to impeach Cheney first

Ray McGovern: a lesson from fascist history

2007-12-30T13:25:00.001-05:00

Hi, Impeachment Person,I know it's Sunday and tomorrow is New Year's Eve. I've been trying torestrain myself for the last week because holidays really do belong tofamilies. BUT this article, which Harold Burbank forwarded, leaves meunable to wait until New Year's Day goes by for two reasons:1) It aims right between the 1 and 3 pin. Bush's fascist projectreally did start 7 months before 9/11,

To Impeach or Not to Impeach: Conyers, Wexler, McGovern

2007-12-20T22:51:00.001-05:00

Ralph Nazareth found Amy Goodman and Juan Ganzales interviewingConyers, Wexler, McGovern at the same time:To Impeach or Not to Impeach? A Discussion with House Judiciary ChairJohn Conyers and CIA Veteran Ray McGovernThree Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee—Robert Wexlerof Florida, Luis Gutierrez of Illinois, and Tammy Baldwin ofWisconsin—have called on committee chair John

Rep. Wexler's Quarter Million Person Challenge / Blog Radio Announcement

2007-12-19T23:18:00.001-05:00

Tomorrow night (Thursday) you can hear Wexler on the radio over theinternet at 9 pm:---------- Forwarded message ----------From: Robert Wexler Date: Dec 19, 2007 4:40 PMSubject: Rep. Wexler's Quarter Million Person Challenge / Blog RadioAnnouncementTo: richard.duffee@gmail.comDear Richard,We have already reached 100,000 supporters. Thank You.Now We Need Each of You

Wexler Wants Hearings! Let's follow through!

2007-12-19T22:59:00.001-05:00

Hi, Impeachment Person!On December 14 I sent you the good news that Robert Wexler, LuisGutierrez, and Tammy Baldwin are calling for hearings in the JudiciaryCommittee. Wexler asked for 50,000 signatures on an internet petition.Almost immediately he got 100,000. Now he's seeking 250,000. BubFeuer, who is running on an impeachment platform in the 1st districtof Massachusetts, exhorts us to follow

Fascist America in 10 easy steps

2007-12-18T21:39:00.001-05:00

Hi!On April 24 of this year The Guardian published an article by Naomi Wolf:Fascist America, in 10 easy steps. You can read it at:www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2064157,00.htmlShe identifies these 10 steps to fascism:1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy2. Create a gulag3. Develop a thug caste4. Set up an internal surveillance system5. Harass citizens' groups6. Engage in arbitrary

Response to Keith Johnstone & rich getting richer

2007-12-16T23:22:00.001-05:00

First a response to Keith Johnstone, then a report on increase in thewealth of the rich.Hi Keith,For background please read the response I sent Sharon Foster at 10:05this morning on FairfieldGreens@yahoogroups.comAt http://richardduffee.blogspot.com you will find a couple of samplesof what was on my website last year and some of the emails I've sentout to the impeachment listserves over the last

Keith Johnston's message & Duffee reply

2007-12-15T20:38:00.001-05:00

Hi, Impeachment and Green Folk:I have invited anyone and everyone to debate the issue of impeachmentand related issues. On the Fairfield Green list, Keith Johnson hasstepped up to the plate. I answer below.On Dec 15, 2007 1:45 PM, Keith Johnston wrote:> I appreciate Richard Duffee's argument that "Constitutional issues are> intrinsically the most important issues a> government

Green nominating convention postponed to Jan. 5, 10 a.m.

2007-12-14T01:05:00.001-05:00

Hi, Impeachment Person,The weather reports for Sunday are terrible. We don't wantpublic-spirited people to get into car accidents over a nominatingconvention, so we have postponed the convention from December 16 toSaturday, January 5 at 10 a.m., with a snowcheck date of Sunday,January 6, 2 p.m.I will be sending out several analyses of the issues the Green Partynominating convention will face on

Chris Hedges: Why We Resist

2007-12-12T00:03:00.001-05:00

Hi!Ralph Nazareth sent us this piece:Why We ResistBy Chris Hedges12/11/07 "TruthDig.com " --- The refusal to pay my taxes if we go towar with Iran, and the portion of my taxes spent on the wars in Iraqand Afghanistan if we do not cut off funding for these two conflicts,is not a means. It is an end. I do not know if my refusal, and therefusal of others, will be effective in halting these wars. All

Sunday 16th nominating convention in Norwalk

2007-12-10T18:43:00.000-05:00

Dear Impeachment Person:David Bedell is sending the following press release out. We expect thenominating convention to take from 2 to 4. From 4 to 5 we will have anorganizing meeting. The Green rules state that if you have attendedtwo Green fuctions, you are entitled to vote.Whether you are entitled to vote or not, we would appreciate yourattendance and input and we will need your assistance if

John Nirenberg's walk & Bob Bowman's letter to the military

2007-12-09T01:41:00.000-05:00

Hi, Impeachment Person,John Nirenberg, a history professor from Vermont, is walking fromBoston to Washington DC to demand that Nancy Pelosi put impeachment inmotion. He has a website,: www.marchinmyname.org,, will be walkingfrom Norwalk to Stamford next weekend, and will be on Scott Harris'sshow on 89.5 fm at 9:30 Monday night.Any of us can enjoy him, walk with him, talk to him, learn from him,

Olberman, 911, May 2006 deal on impeachment, & Darfur

2007-12-07T23:14:00.001-05:00

Dear Impeachment Person,1) Ralph Nazareth thought you might like to see Keith Olberman tellMr. Bush he's a bold faced liar for 8 minutes. He's very good at it.http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18847.htm2) Sophie Barnes found that the former PM of Italy says 9/11 was aninside deal. She writes: Attendez!http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2007/12/former-president-of-italy-911-

Plan B for Impeachment

2007-12-06T18:24:00.001-05:00

Terrific! Forwarded by Susan Serpa:---------- Forwarded message ----------From: Susan Serpa Date: Dec 6, 2007 12:59 PMSubject: Re: FW: Group Mail - IMPEACHMENT GROUP - Breaking: Plan Bfor ImpeachmentTo: pala@maine.rr.com, north-east-impeachment-summit@googlegroups.com,Planning NE Impeachment CoalitionFrom Kucinich 2008

The Problem of the Senate

2007-12-04T14:16:00.000-05:00

THE PROBLEM OF THE SENATEThe Democrats claim that there is no sense in impeaching Bush andCheney because they don't have the votes in the Senate. In sayingthis, they are obscurely pointing to how anti-democratic the Senateis. I'll spell it out.1) The problem of the Senate is an example of the fact that one majorreason the Constitution is in danger is because it unjustly defendsinequities.Most of

Scott Ritter on war with Iran

2007-12-03T22:41:00.001-05:00

Hi Impeachment Person,I personally do not share Scott Ritter's idea of what is good for theworld or the US. But he knows a lot about the Middle East and theworkings of the US government, and seems pretty honest and forthright.I think we ought to give him a good hearing.RichardMetro Times, DetroitBombs away?Arms expert Scott Ritter says the U.S. plans to attack Iran. MT askswhy he's so sure.by

CIA plans to interfere in referendum, destabilize Venezuela (James Petras, CounterPunch)

2007-12-03T01:12:00.001-05:00

Counterattack as Fateful Referendum LoomsCIA Venezuela Destabilization Memo SurfacesBy JAMES PETRASCounterPunch, November 28, 2007http://www.counterpunch.org/petras11272007.htmlOn November 26, 2007 the Venezuelan governmentbroadcast and circulated a confidential memo fromthe US embassy to the CIA which is devastatinglyrevealing of US clandestine operations and whichwill influence the referendum

If Bush Attacks Iran, He Won't Get My Taxes: Chris Hedges

2007-11-30T14:02:00.000-05:00

Hi, Impeachment Person,This is the best statement of its kind I've seen. Ralph Nazareth found it.If Bush Attacks Iran, He Won't Get My TaxesBy Chris Hedges11/29/07 "The Nation" -- - -- I will not pay my income tax if we go towar with Iran. I realize this is a desperate and perhaps futilegesture. But an attack on Iran -- which appears increasingly likelybefore the coming presidential election --

Fournier vs Larson; Pax Christi; Valerie Plame & treason; Catherine Wilkerson

2007-11-29T01:19:00.001-05:00

Hi, Impeachment Person,We have some good and useful reading and requests for action (#1, #2 and #4):1) Steve Fournier et al v. John Larson;2) Pax Christi's request for letters, faxes, and calls to supportcivil liberties;3) Forwarded by Ann Gallagher: Treason is not Old News;4) A particularly despicable example of how the police state isintensifying its gross and arbitrary violence: Alexander

Kucinich tv tonight, New Broom Coalition, Chomsky, Lindorff

2007-11-26T01:21:00.001-05:00

1) Dennis Kucinich now has his own internet tv station athttp://www.kucinichtv.com/. He'll be on the air tonight from theImpeachment Teach-In, Live from Dartmouth College, Nov. 26 at 7pm.Co-sponsored by Nation Magazine and Wednesday night from the Defendingthe Constitution Town Hall Meeting w/ Congressman Dennis Kucinich,Manchester, NH, Nov. 28 at 8PM.2) Noam Chomsky is also getting better

Frances Boyle to lawyers on Law and Resistance

2007-11-24T18:31:00.001-05:00

Dear Impeachment Person,Harold Burbank has forwarded to us what has to be one of thehalf-dozen finest and most important speeches of the year--by FrancisBoyle to the Northwestern U School of Law.RichardLaw and Resistance: The Republic in Crisis and the People's Response*Professor Francis A. Boyle of University of Illinois College of LawTuesday, November 20, 2007 at Northwestern University School

National Lawyer's Guild impeachment resolution

2007-11-22T14:21:00.000-05:00

NOW HERE IS SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL AND GOOD:Whereas George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney:1. deliberately misled the nation and doctored intelligence, asdescribed in the Downing Streetminutes, http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/memos.html about the threatfrom Iraq in order tojustify a war of aggression and an occupation of Iraq, as furtherdescribed in House resolution H.Res. 333 http://

H.R. 1955: Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007

2007-11-22T14:18:00.001-05:00

Hi,I'm forwarding two thanksgiving day messages from Bob Feuer on the"Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism" bill, probably themost superlative piece of meretricious mendacity the Administrationhas so far managed to get through the House. I sent the bill itselfout to you about 3 weeks ago and you can also call it up from a urlbelow. We have to lobby the Senate.This, of course, is a

Please contact Judiciary Committee, letter to Pelosi, and Courtney

2007-11-22T02:18:00.000-05:00

Hi, Impeachment Folk,This email has a correction, an explanation, and contact informationfor the Judiciary Committee.First, on November 18 I misquoted Marge and David Schneider's accountof what Joe Courtney said to six (not seven) people in his office. JoeCourtney told them that he had been led to expect an attack on Iran inJanuary. Unlike Olver, Courtney did not mention anything about anattack

The "War on Terror" Is a Fraud

2006-08-27T02:47:00.000-04:00

We should admit that the "War on Terror" is a fraud and act consistently with that admission. Unless we admit that the "War on Terror" is simply a fraud, a con game, a scam, and that we were initially taken in by it, we are not likely to muster the nerve to impeach George Bush and Dick Cheney - as we must if we are to reacquire our integrity and reconstruct even the modicum of peace we had in the

Learning the Art of Rule in Nepal

2006-08-27T02:39:00.001-04:00

I take my seat in a restaurant. The waiter hands me the menu with both his hands-both hands when only one is needed-showing he will deliver his whole self into my service, then standing further back from the table than necessary to emphasize that he hardly dares to come close to one so glorious as I. Like a palace guard, he honors my presumed desire for undisturbed concentration while I make the

An Infuriating Thought Experiment on the War for Hearts and Minds

2006-06-15T02:29:00.000-04:00

For the first two thirds of the last century, the dominant American notion of intelligence, promoted by Binet, Terman, Wechsler, Thorndike, and Spearman, that there is a "single entity" that can be called "intelligence," was seriously challenged only once, by Thurstone, who claimed there were seven "primary mental abilities"—verbal comprehension, verbal fluency, number, spatial visualization,

The Slow News of Need: Prologue, The Seasons of Need

2006-06-14T23:27:00.000-04:00

(for Bernadette Panettieri, daughter of Lois Gorley)Narrator: This poem is about relationships of unequal power. It is fairly common for there to be no one in sight less powerful than oneself, but extremely rare for there to be no one more powerful. So to show how power works, we must portray differences of relative power, keeping in mind that the more powerful in one situation may be subordinate

An Ethical Basis for Global Egalitarianism

2006-06-14T23:03:00.000-04:00

In this short essay I want to clarify some basic differences between my way of thinking about equality and what I take to be the forms of egalitarianism now more common in developed countries. I hold egalitarianism to be an ethical issue before it is a political one, and to be a political issue because it is ethical. Because the law is backed by the state's monopoly of force, it should only

The Need for Moral Asylum

2006-05-27T23:57:00.000-04:00

In the 1950's American children were taught that their ancestors had come to the USA “for religious liberty, to escape European wars, and for a better life.” These three reasons together, we were told, were the basis of the American Dream: America was the place where one could find moral freedom, freedom from political chaos, and as much wealth as one could earn. These reasons were quite real to

What the World Bank Knows but Won't Tell You

2006-05-26T00:57:00.000-04:00

October, 1995. In a market in Bombay a dozen one- and two-story buildings on each side of the cramped street squeezed over a thousand of us together, where we bustled buying dates, peanuts, combs, cigarettes, and cloth. That night I got on a plane to New York. Two days later, Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m., I stood on the corner of 63rd Street and looked north up First Avenue. I could see only a

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2006-05-24T00:36:00.000-04:00

Patriotism in the Age of Investors

2006-05-23T23:32:00.000-04:00

(Written in April 2003, and published in The Peace Review in December 2003.)Patriotism is to a nation what egotism is to a person. One has a passionate attachment to one’s idea of oneself, believes virtues arise from that passion, and seeks to act consistently with those imagined virtues. Patriotism is a similarly complex concept that presumes the same three kinds of “things” have a necessary