Atlanta Progressive News

(APN) ATLANTA — The US Department of Justice’s (USDOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) opened a review of the USDOJ’s role in the National Security Agency’s (NSA) warrantless wiretapping program on November 27, 2006, according to a letter from the OIG to US Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) obtained by Atlanta Progressive News. APN first reported on the apparent game […]

(APN) ATLANTA — “Nothing is off the table unless the American people allow it to be so,” US Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) said in an exclusive interview with Atlanta Progressive News (APN) about her Articles of Impeachment against President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. The bill, H Res. 1106, which is now available at thomas.loc.gov, […]

Photographs by Matthew Cardinale (APN) ATLANTA — Paul Wolfowitz was interrupted four times by a total of five protesters tonight during his invited Leo and Berry Eizenstat Memorial lecture on the World Bank at the Ahavath Achim Synagogue. The title of his speech was Why Africa Matters to Americans. One protester, Justin Carter, 20, who stood wearing an anti-Wolfowitz t-shirt, […]

(APN) ATLANTA — US Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) today became the first US Congresswoman to introduce Articles of Impeachment against President Bush, as well as Vice President Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. Atlanta Progressive News has obtained the following remarks prepared by the Congresswoman, and has learned she was not allowed to read them on the US House […]

By Joe Parko, Special to the Atlanta Progressive News (APN) JERUSALEM — Ever since Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli Nuclear Technician, confirmed the existence of Israel’s nuclear weapons program with his photographs of the secret underground bomb facility published in the London Sunday Times in 1986, the world has known Israel has been making nuclear bombs but has pretended they do […]

(APN) ATLANTA — US Rep. McKinney (D-GA) told a recent audience of the film American Blackout that she had written up Articles of Impeachment for President Bush five years ago in 2001. It was her mother, Leola McKinney, who pleaded with her and convinced her “not to drop” the Articles in the US House, at the time. The act of […]