The Politico reports: “Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) introduced 35 articles of impeachment against President Bush on Monday night, reading the resolution into the Congressional Record. … Kucinich has introduced a similar impeachment resolution against Vice President Cheney. That resolution was referred to the House Judiciary Committee, which has taken no action on the measure. Speaker…

As government leaders from around the world meet at the U.N. food conference in Rome, nonprofit organizations have also been meeting there. The following analysts are available for a limited number of interviews and are in contact with others in Rome from around the world: FLAVIO VALENTE Secretary general of FIAN [Food First Information and…

John McCain spoke at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee on Monday. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton spoke there this morning. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is meeting with President Bush this afternoon. EDWARD L. PECK Peck, a former ambassador who was chief of mission in Iraq and Mauritania, also served as deputy director of…

The Wall Street Journal is reporting: “Andy Stern, the president of the Service Employees International Union, is moving to further consolidate bargaining and organizing efforts across industry lines, a move that could limit the power of local unions but give the union greater leverage with big employers.” SEIU is currently holding its convention in Puerto…

The Senate is debating global warming and a “cap-and-trade” proposal. HARVEY WASSERMAN Wasserman is author of the new book SOLARTOPIA: Our Green-Powered Earth, A.D. 2030. He said today: “With gas prices going through the roof, where’s the discussion about public transit? Here in Ohio, the federal government just spent $500 million to widen the freeway…

KARL GROSSMAN Grossman just wrote the piece “Half-Trillion Dollars for Nukes!” which states: “With Wall Street unwilling to finance new nuclear plants, U.S. Senators Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut and John Warner of Virginia have cooked up a scheme to provide $544 billion — yes, with a ‘b’ — in subsidies for new nuclear power plant…

In his new book What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception, former White House spokesperson Scott McClellan writes (page 179): “I was first asked specifically whether [Karl] Rove had been involved in the leak late in the briefing on September 16, 2003. Russell Mokhiber, editor of the advocacy newsletter Corporate…

VINCENT BUGLIOSI Bugliosi is a former prosecutor who successfully prosecuted 21 murder convictions without a single loss. His previous best-selling books include Helter Skelter about the Charles Manson case, which he successfully prosecuted. He has authored the just-released The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder. Bugliosi said today: “I have not had an opportunity…

The Washington Post has on its front page a piece headlined “Ex-Press Aide Writes That Bush Misled U.S. on Iraq.” The British newspaper The Telegraph features a piece today: “John Bolton To Be Target of Citizen’s Arrest at Hay Festival: John Bolton, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, faces a citizen’s arrest when…

The BBC is reporting: “Ex-U.S. President Jimmy Carter has said Israel has at least 150 atomic weapons in its arsenal. “The Israelis have never confirmed they have nuclear weapons, but this has been widely assumed since a scientist leaked details in the 1980s. … “Mr. Carter gave the figure for the Israeli nuclear arsenal in…