Disappeared News

If you surf the web, read or watch alternative media, or even if you check CNN's website, you are probably aware that Rep. Dennis Kucinich has just read articles of impeachment on the House floor and that the House, Democrats and several Republicans, voted to send that to the Judiciary Committee (which, in all likelihood, probably will not act).

But so far anyway, unless I've missed something, you wouldn't know any of that if you depend only on the Honolulu Advertiser for your news.

If you were looking for any mention of impeachment in the paper today, you would have found instead, across the top of p. A7, the headline "Italy's prime minister heaps praise on visiting Bush." The article was given the entire page, that is, the portion around the large ad.

Suppose they did cover the story. You can bet it would result in letters to the editor, both pro and con, which they would have to sort through and maybe print. This is what newspaper owners don't want you to see—discussion of impeachment on their pages.

Of course, you can read about the impeachment resolution all over the web. There are YouTube videos and it was even on CNN's website.

Kucinich was interviewed today on Democracy Now. The transcript is here, or you can go to the website to see the video or to listen to the interview. It will be on channel 56 at 10 p.m. tonight for Oahu viewers.

Impeach him, heck, try him for murder

Already on the NY Times best seller list (if not mentioned elsewhere in the Times) is the just-released The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, by Vincent Bugliosi. He was the Charles Manson prosecutor who now makes a case for trying the president for the deaths of 4,000 American soldiers in Iraq.

The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder by Vincent Bugliosi Read more about this title...

Vincent Bugliosi is one of the most successful prosecutors in this country, with a record including twenty-one murder convictions without a single loss. With a new book, he outlines his case for the prosecution of George W. Bush for murder....

...So we know—not “think,” but we know—that when George Bush told the nation on the evening of October the 7th, 2002, Cincinnati, Ohio, that Hussein was an imminent threat to the security of this country, he was telling millions of unsuspecting Americans the exact opposite of what his own CIA was telling him. So if we had nothing else at all, this alone shows us that he took this nation to war on a lie, and therefore, all of the killings in Iraq of American soldiers became unlawful killings and therefore murder.

But it gets worse. October 4th, three days after the October 1st classified top-secret report, Bush and his people had the CIA issue an unclassified summary version of the October 1st classified report, so that this report could be issued to the American people and to Congress. And this report came to be known as the “White Paper.” And in this White Paper, the conclusion of US intelligence that Hussein was not an imminent threat to the security of this country was completely deleted from the White Paper. Every single one of these all-important words were taken out. And the question that I have is, how evil, how perverse, how sick, how criminal can George Bush and his people be? And yet, up to this point, unbelievably—and there’s no other word for it—he’s gotten by with all of this. [Democracy Now!, 6/13/2008]