Olmert: Israel's Lieberman had full access

Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday denied a claim that sensitive intelligence information was withheld from the country's hawkish foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, when he was his strategic affairs chief several years ago.

US judge releases man charged in Lieberman threat

A Philadelphia man charged with posting an anti-Semitic threat against Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut will have his computer use monitored while he's out on $50,000 bail.

Graham, Lieberman express concern on Iran actions

Sens. Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman are expressing concern that Iran is aggressively extending its support for anti-democracy forces wherever they appear.

Bin Laden's death may reignite PTSD for some

The scenes played out on TV and computer screens all across the nation — people spilling into the streets in jubilation over the news that Osama bin Laden had been captured and killed. Some recited the Pledge of Allegiance. Some sang the national anthem. Some clapped. Some cheered.

Sen. Joseph Lieberman writing book about Sabbath

Sen. Joseph Lieberman is working on a book about his Jewish faith.

Sen. Joe Lieberman says he will retire in 2012

Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut announced Wednesday that he will not seek a fifth term, ending a political career spanning four decades in which he evolved from a reliably Democratic state legislator into an independent U.S. senator who backed the war in Iraq and the Republican candidate for president.

Lieberman: Health care, politics nixed energy bill

Sen. Joe Lieberman on Monday blamed exhaustion in Congress from efforts to pass health care legislation and midterm politics for the Senate's failure to approve an energy bill capping greenhouse gases.

Michael Moore threatens boycott over Lieberman

Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore is threatening to organize a boycott of Connecticut in response to Sen. Joseph Lieberman's opposition to key parts of federal health care legislation.

Franken shuts down Lieberman on Senate floor

Democratic Sen. Al Franken took the unusual step Thursday of shutting down Sen. Joe Lieberman on the Senate floor.

Dems to Lieberman: Say it's so, Joe on health care

The senator Republicans love and liberals love to hate is at it again.

Biden: Lieberman wrong on health care

Vice President Joe Biden says Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman is wrong to opposed a health care compromise in the Senate that would allow Americans as young as 55 to buy into the Medicare program.

Lieberman supported Medicare expansion

Sen. Joe Lieberman was for a Medicare expansion before he was against it.

Lieberman appears open to health bill deal

WASHINGTON - A centrist senator who has vowed to block any form of a government-run insurance option in the Senate's health care bill said Wednesday that he is "encouraged" by progress on a compromise on the plan being crafted by a group of Democratic negotiators.  

Senator: Senate will investigate Army shootings

The chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee says he plans to begin a congressional investigation of the shootings at Fort Hood.

Lieberman breaks another basketball gender barrier

The first woman to play pro basketball with guys is also the first hired to coach them.

Lieberman opposes Reid's health care plan

Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman says while he's "strongly inclined" to vote to move Sen. Harry Reid's health care plan to the Senate floor for debate, he would ultimately oppose the measure because it includes a public option.

Alec Baldwin passing on challenge to Lieberman

A spokesman for Alec Baldwin says the actor has no plans to challenge Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman in the 2012 election.

Sen. Lieberman to Alec Baldwin: 'Make my day'

Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman has a message for actor Alec Baldwin, who is reportedly considering a move to Connecticut to challenge Lieberman in 2012: "Make my day."

AP Interview: Lieberman down, not out, on climate

Sen. Joe Lieberman riled Democrats last year by criticizing then-presidential candidate Barack Obama. Now the Connecticut independent is helping the president push for a bill to combat global warming.

Lieberman: Dodd will eventually win re-election

Joe Lieberman predicted Tuesday that voters will re-elect his beleaguered fellow Connecticut senator, Christopher Dodd, for the same reasons he attributes to his own comeback victory.

Israeli police question country's foreign minister

Israeli police say they have questioned the country's new ultranationalist foreign minister for the third time since he took office.

New Israeli foreign minister, in his own words

Excerpts from speeches and statements by new Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the hawkish Yisrael Beitenu party:

Nationalist rising fast in Israeli politics

An Israeli politician who based his election campaign on baiting the country's Arab minority, drawing accusations that he is a racist demagogue, now seems likely to become the Jewish state's top diplomat.

Sen. Joe Lieberman now sings Obama's praises

Sen. Joe Lieberman has changed his tune on Barack Obama. After campaigning across the country for Republican John McCain in 2008 and attacking Obama as naive, untested and unwilling to take on powerful special interests, Lieberman now showers praise on the popular new Democratic president.

Divisive Lieberman a big winner in Israel election

One of the big winners of Israel's election Tuesday is its most divisive politician, an ultranationalist settler who owes his surging political fortunes to Israeli Jews' deepening distrust of the country's Arab minority.

last three paragraphs about sums it up.

Yet, even as more Americans identify themselves as independents — not Democrats or Republicans — there is a painfully sharp decline in moderate and independent voices in both houses of Congress. It is also true that everywhere but Capitol Hill more people are moving a …

Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, is expected to raise the issue at a White House meeting on Monday after weeks of intense diplomacy in which Obama has dispatched senior officials – including his intelligence, national security and military chiefs – to J …

So, if you thought Indefinite Detention of US citizens was bad, now they want to simply strip you of your citizenship so that ALL rules of war apply to you should you “step out of line.”  That allows them to skirt the Constitution quite nicely, eh?

The “All for Peace” radio station in Israel has been shut down by the nation’s Communications Ministry following claims that they were violating the law by illegally criticizing the far-right coalition government. The Communications Ministry said the Hebrew- …

Republicans in the Senate on Thursday killed another piece of President Obama's jobs agenda -- a $60 billion bill to invest in infrastructure -- but not before accusing Democrats of putting politics ahead of job creation   By:  Stephanie Condon

First of all, the Palestinian people have been languishing under a sinister Israeli military occupation for 44 years, and no amount of "democratization" in occupied Palestine will change this fundamental fact.

Lieberman openly works against any peace deal in the Middle East. Why is Lieberman trying to sabotage any and all peace negotiations?

Comments by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman urging the replacement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas represented a direct threat on Abbas' life, an official Palestinian Authority letter addressed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday. On Monday, Liebe …

Will Shalit's Release Change Israel's Political Dynamics?

I recently read that the hard but mostly welcomed decision by Netanyahu to release so many prisoners who had blood on their hands in order to obtain the release of Gilad Shalit will no doubt increase his popularity in Israel.  Let us hope that it did.  For him to assur …

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his eight senior cabinet ministers decided Sunday to support the Middle East Quartet's plan for renewing Israeli-Palestinian negotiations within a month without preconditions. "Israel welcomes the Quartet's call for direct negotiation …

Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Susan Collins (R-ME) aren't messing around when it comes to stopping federal dollars from flowing to anti-Muslim terrorism training.

Annie wrote:  Excellent commentary and analysis from Huwaida Arraf and Norm Finkelstein. Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales interview two giants in the Democracy Now report: As Turkey Freezes Israel Ties, Critics Decry "Whitewashed" U.N.

These days it’s rare for local TV stations to produce anything resembling an expose. With their steady diet of crime, weather, and canned medical news, there just isn’t room for the hard reporting.

A leaked U.S. diplomatic cable shows that Arizona Republican Senator John McCain promised to help Libyan dictator Muammar Qadhafi obtain U.S. military hardware in 2009. In a meeting, McCain said the U.S.

Opposition chairwoman MK Tzipi Livni (Kadima) met with Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in a café near Jerusalem. The two, who have not met in months, discussed "the political situation ahead of September," Livni's bureau stated.

Using propaganda and fear to target the elderly

Conservative republicans have made no secret of the fact that they would love nothing more than to drastically cut or even eradicate social security.  Faced with enormous opposition even among their own aging constituents, however, the right has seized on a new tactic.  …

This past April, right-wing war hawk John Bolton suggested during an interview on Fox News that the United States should cut Social Security and Medicare to finance the defense budget. During debate over the debt deal today on the Senate floor, Sen.

MCCONNELL: It set the template for the future.

n the past two weeks, small protests held by mostly university students in Tel Aviv in response to rising housing costs have grown into large scale demonstrations.

Members of Yisrael Beiteinu warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that their 'revenge was on its way' after the latter announced that he opposes the establishment of parliamentary committees to investigate human rights organizations.

On Fox News Sunday, two of the Senate’s leading Iran hawks pressed the administration to do more on Iran and issued thinly-veiled threats to the Islamic Republic. Sen Joe Lieberman (I-CT), who has advocated for “retir(ing) our ambiguous mantra about all options remai …

When unveiling a proposal to reform Medicare alongside Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), Senator Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) warned that the entitlement program will eventually “go broke” and lead to a “fiscal disaster” for the United States. “Each Medicare  …

In its editorial on June 17, Haaretz wrote that the demand that Palestinians recognize Israel as the national state of the Jewish people, to which all Jews of the world are welcome to immigrate, is tantamount to asking that the Palestinians give up on "their national ethos." No  …

R' McCain & Lieberman holding hands to become the first Octogenarian's in the White house? :Opinion

These two (very) old guys are like peanut butter and jelly, frick and frack, Laurel and Hardy and Abbott and Costello all wrapped up as one pair of old worn out retreads. New ideas? Nah. Safe? yeh? Stale? definitely.