As early as this Friday, Congress may approve legislation allowing the Department of Energy to approve $50 billion and more in federal loan guarantees to build new nuclear power plants.

We ask that you call your US Representative to make sure this does not happen.

The nuclear industry itself has made it clear that this astonishing taxpayer give-away is the only way new atomic reactors will be built in this country. After fifty years of proven failure, neither Wall Street nor the utility industry wants to finance new atomic construction without your taxpayer dollars to guarantee their investments.

You might think that after half a century, technology once sold on the promise of being "too cheap to meter" would be able to raise its own funding. But it can't.

By contrast, no federal guarantees are needed for the billions of dollars being invested in building new wind farms all over the world.

Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin (D., Wisconsin) and Congressman Donald Payne (D., N.J.) have signed on as cosponsors of H. Res. 333, a bill proposing articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney, according to Congressman Dennis Kucinich's office. Kucinich is the original sponsor of the bill. Baldwin is the fourth member of the House Judiciary Committee to have added her name to the bill. A fifth Judiciary Committee member, Steve Cohen, has thus far signed on only to a bill proposing the impeachment of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

H Res 333 cosponsors include, in addition to Baldwin, Payne, and Kucinich: Jan Schakowsky, Maxine Waters, Hank Johnson, Keith Ellison, Lynn Woolsey, Barbara Lee, Albert Wynn, William Lacy Clay, Yvette Clarke, Jim McDermott, Jim Moran, Bob Filner, Sam Farr, Robert Brady.

That bill, H. Res. 589 sponsored by Congressman Jay Inslee, has 15 cosponsors in addition to Inslee: Xavier Becerra, Michael Arcuri, Ben Chandler, Dennis Moore, Bruce Braley, Tom Udall, Earl Blumenauer, Peter DeFazio, Hank Johnson, Steve Cohen, Keith Ellison, David Wu, Yvette Clarke, Darlene Hooley, Betty McCollum.

The U.S. media establishment is mainlining another fix for the Iraq war: It isn’t so bad after all, American military power could turn wrong into right, chronic misleaders now serve as truth-tellers. The hit is that the war must go on.

     When the White House chief of staff Andrew Card said five years ago that “you don’t introduce new products in August,” he was explaining the need to defer an all-out PR campaign for invading Iraq until early fall. But this year, August isn’t a bad month to launch a sales pitch for a new and improved Iraq war. Bad products must be re-marketed to counteract buyers’ remorse.

     “War critics” who have concentrated on decrying the lack of U.S. military progress in Iraq are now feeling the hoist from their own petards. But that’s to be expected. Those who complain that the war machine is ineffective are asking for more effective warfare even when they think they’re demanding peace.

In your article "Will Bush Cancel the 2008 Election?" you call for "every possible scenario to be discussed" that can stop the theft of the 2008 election by Bush.   This is indeed an urgent call, as the Bushes have stolen not only the 2000 and 2004 elections, as are well known, but also the 1980 election, as detailed in my book  October Surprise (Tudor, 1989) subsequently confirmed by a book of the same title three years later by Gary Sick,  and others (Robert Parry, Trick or Treason: The October Surprise Mystery; and Ari ben Menasche, Profits of War).  

There is an answer to stopping the obvious plans for  'a new 9/11' or some other pretext to 'suspending'  the 2008 election and/or declaring martial law under  the new Directive 51:   

There must be a credible and immediate Call for  the Court Martial of the President for itemized and detailed abuses of his role as commander in chief  and his complicit chain of command for lying the nation into an immoral, illegal and unilateral war; violating the Geneva Conventions and international law by condoning kidnapping and torture; illegally and

On Tuesday morning in Washington, D.C., a five-member group of Americans reported on their just-completed 12-day trip through Iran.  As with other delegations of this sort, they reported on a country that bears very little resemblance to the horrifying axis-of-evil member we hear about on U.S. television.

Phil Wileto of the Virginia Antiwar Network and the Richmond Defender said the Iranian people were extremely welcoming.  They were mobbed by 80 school children wanting to practice their English.  They encountered by chance 300 members of the Iranian National Guard who were delighted to meet Americans and spoke immediately of peace and friendship.  There does not appear, Wileto said, to be any campaign in Iran to prepare the people there for war.  The Iranian people view Americans with friendship, admiration, curiosity.