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by Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report

Former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel is right to be scared of most of the Democratic field of presidential candidates. Except for Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich, the contenders jockey for the title of most-likely-to-attack-Iran. Impeachment “is the only way to discredit Republicans enough to insure a Democratic victory in 2008,” but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will hear none of that. Even if the Democrats somehow triumph, nothing much will change, because the frontrunners are all beholden to Big Money and enthralled with war.

During the first Democratic presidential debate a little known candidate, former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel, ended up with one of the most memorable lines of the evening:

“And I got to tell you, after standing up with them, some of these people frighten me - they frighten me. When you have mainline candidates that turn around and say that there’s nothing off the table with respect to Iran, that’s code for using nukes, nuclear devices. (more…)

ANTIWAR REFERENDUM PASSES
BY OVERWHELMING MAJORITIES
IN CHICAGO, COOK COUNTY SUBURBS
AND SEVERAL ILLINOIS CITIES

By Chicagoans Against War & Injustice

CHICAGO (Nov 8, 2006) - Huge numbers of voters across the state of Illinois, wherever antiwar referendums appeared on the ballot, voted to stop the war and ‘immediately begin an orderly and rapid withdrawal.’

At 3am, in the City of Chicago, with 95 percent of precincts reporting, the margin was 80 percent to 20 percent–389,000 ‘Yes’ and 93,000 ‘No’. The tallies were similar throughout suburban Cook County, where towns like Evanston and Oak Park had the measure on the ballot as well (more…)