By Coleen Rowley and Ray McGovern, originally posted on Consortiumnews.com on July 19, 2008.

One can assume that former Attorney General John Ashcroft didn't mean it to be funny, but his testimony on Thursday before the House Judiciary Committee might strike one as hilarious, were it not for...

The final practice of the "March on the RNC" went off without a hitch Tuesday, July 1, in St. Paul. There were almost as many police on bicycles as marchers. They practiced their job of keeping...

Congress seems to have learned nothing from the Bush Administration's attack on Iraq. They passed the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002, apparently thinking that they were giving the administration more leverage to negotiate a resolution to the WMD issue. Instead, the Bush administration seized...

Recently, our government excluded the 9/11 victims' families from attending the arraignment of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other terror suspects at the military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay. Initially, none of the families, with the exception of ardent Bush supporter Debra Burlingame, were invited.

After this issue became public,...

And let's bring home all the children of fathers! And let's give back to Iraqi fathers and mothers sovereign control of their own country.

In honor of Father's Day yesterday, we got a lot of fathers and children of fathers out on the St. Paul footbridges. We ended up...

Finding ourselves in (rare) agreement today with George W. regarding his proclamation (below) and buoyed by the Supreme Court's recent restoration of our right to habeas corpus, we decided to hold our own special celebration for approximately 20,000 Minneapolis motorists in honor of...

Our St. Paul Peace Vigil paid tribute yesterday to Scotty-Come-Lately's admissions and received rousing honks from the 10,000 plus inquiring minds motoring beneath us. Obviously these four hard questions: "Who died?" Who lied?" "Who pays?" and "Who profits?" (originally inspired by a song...

We videotaped Tao Rodriguez-Seeger (Pete Seeger's grandson) singing this Appalachian gospel song at an event I participated in a couple months ago in Beacon, NY. The song fit well with the theme of the event--about the need for...

Does anyone know what the Guinness Book's record is for fluorescent orange anti-war bannering on a footbridge above eight lanes of moving traffic? What is the record number of "honks for peace" in an hour? If peace with Iraq and Iran has not been...

Torture and the Courage to be Inconvenienced was the name of the talk scheduled to be given by University of Minnesota Professor of Medicine and Bioethics Dr. Steven Miles yesterday morning, Sunday, May 4th, at St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church in Minneapolis (which I attend). Dr. Miles is...

No one will mistake our homemade production of "If I had a banner" for something out of Hollywood.

In Hollywood, you don't have to work around the below zero wind chills and series of snow blizzards we're still...

How uncanny that exactly 40 years after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated during the Vietnam War (and some think possibly because of his opposition to the Vietnam War), we would turn on our radios to hear a Twin Cities radio host re-applying the principles of Hermann Goering to plans...

FULL DISCLOSURE: I wrote the following op-ed almost two weeks ago when an abundance of wishful thinking and the importance and timeliness of the push for FISA changes, investigation of the administration's out-of-control, error-laced terror watch list and other national security-civil liberty issues deluded me into thinking there was a...

News flash from the New York Times:

"Mr. Bush announced no final decision on future troop levels after the video briefing by the commander, Gen. David H. Petraeus, and the diplomat, Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker. The briefing took place on the day...

Or as our Republican-owned local media framed it: "Minneapolis Motorists Don't Like to Wait a Few Minutes at an Intersection". . . Huh?

The little news coverage given in the Twin Cities to the five year anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War...

We kept the message real simple at our Sunday School for motorists hurrying to and from church this morning. Simple enough even for those who only read at the Pet Goat level. The day after Bush used his veto pen to continue our country's...

And let's hope on Monday, March 3rd, that a miracle occurs and the St. Paul Park lottery officials pull out and grant the permit request to hold our "Peace Island" picnic on the final day of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul. I'm not kidding about it being a...

I'd banner on this Valentines Day, and I'd banner about the love (needed) between my brothers and my sisters all over this land. The similar song by Pete Seeger sounds a lot better than mine (and click here for Peter, Paul and...

As someone also motivated by the need for the truth about 9/11, as well as aware of the way conflicts of interest have a way of covering up truth, let me add my thanks to Philip Shenon on the release of his new book. Also let me share this recent...

This photo--taken of our Sunday morning vigil--is another attempt to get MSM (main stream motorists) to think. And no, we didn't try to replicate Huckabee's floating cross idea. It just so happens that it's on a church about a half mile behind where we're...