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CA Dem Party Has No More Progressive Caucus - Guess Why
Tuesday, 16 August 2011, 2:30 pm | David Swanson
On July 30th the Progressive Caucus of the California Democratic Party passed a resolution proposing that a primary challenge be offered to Obama next year. The Progressive Caucus's certification expired at the same time, and while other caucuses were routinely ... More >>
Constitutional Conventions: Shall We ConCon?
Tuesday, 16 August 2011, 2:26 pm | David Swanson
To Constitutionally convene or not to Constitutionally convene: that is the question. (And one taken up by an upcoming conference I'll be taking part in at Harvard: http://conconcon.org) Or is it? The government's broken, but would a Constitutional convention be broken ... More >>
The Military: Closer to You Than Your Family
Friday, 12 August 2011, 6:17 pm | David Swanson
Two blocks from my house in a nondescript little building on the edge of our residential neighborhood is an office with a small sign reading "DVBIC of Charlottesville" which turns out to mean "Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center." More >>
The Military: Closer to You than Your Family
Friday, 12 August 2011, 5:05 pm | David Swanson
Two blocks from my house in a nondescript little building on the edge of our residential neighborhood is an office with a small sign reading "DVBIC of Charlottesville" which turns out to mean "Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center." More >>
Lost in the Debt Ceiling Debate: Legal Duty to Create Jobs
Friday, 12 August 2011, 3:24 pm | David Swanson
The debate about the debt ceiling should have been a conversation about how to create jobs. It is time for progressives to remind the government that it has a legal duty to create jobs, and must act immediately – if not through Congress, then through ... More >>
The Divided Left
Thursday, 11 August 2011, 3:05 pm | David Swanson
The Satan Sandwich budget deal seems to have been left lying on the table in some television green rooms. Dylan Ratigan has begun cursing both political parties, even while still fantasizing about the President saving us. Keith Olbermann and Al Gore ... More >>
Uranium Safe to Eat With a Spoon!
Thursday, 11 August 2011, 3:02 pm | David Swanson
Carefully ignoring Fukushima, Los Alamos, Vermont, and Nebraska, a comforting new announcement informs us that "nuclear energy is safe." A series of soothing television ads and videos tells us that mining uranium in Virginia would produce jobs and protect ... More >>
Truman Lied, Hundreds of Thousands Died
Monday, 8 August 2011, 11:32 am | David Swanson
On August 6, 1945, President Harry S Truman announced: "Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese Army base. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of T.N.T. It had more than two thousand times the ... More >>
To Whom Do We Now Turn?
Wednesday, 3 August 2011, 5:44 pm | David Swanson
"The Democratic Party is running away from its traditional role of protecting the poor, the elderly, and the working class," writes Congressman Dennis Kucinich. "To whom do these groups now turn?" We turn to ourselves, Congressman. You know that. ... More >>
Stop Hoping! Start Changing!
Saturday, 30 July 2011, 5:41 pm | David Swanson
"Zeus did not want man to throw his life away, no matter how much the other evils might torment him, but rather to go on letting himself be tormented anew. To that end, he gives man hope. In truth, it is the most evil of evils because it prolongs ... More >>
How would you spend the federal budget?
Thursday, 28 July 2011, 12:05 pm | David Swanson
Time to take out the good ol' fashioned paper and pen and create your budget. As George Lakoff once wrote, a budget is a value document. So enter numbers based on your values. When you're done, scroll down to compare your budget with the one governing ... More >>
Stop Hoping! Start Changing!
Thursday, 28 July 2011, 12:04 pm | David Swanson
"Zeus did not want man to throw his life away, no matter how much the other evils might torment him, but rather to go on letting himself be tormented anew. To that end, he gives man hope. In truth, it is the most evil of evils because it prolongs ... More >>
Debt Is A Crisis
Wednesday, 27 July 2011, 11:41 am | David Swanson
What if the imminent banging of Uncle Sam's skull into the looming debt ceiling isn't a crisis, but the very concept of debt is? The debt ceiling has been lifted numerous times without fanfare or fainting spells. All we face this week is a fabricated opportunity ... More >>
Debt Is A Crisis
Wednesday, 27 July 2011, 10:39 am | David Swanson
What if the imminent banging of Uncle Sam's skull into the looming debt ceiling isn't a crisis, but the very concept of debt is? The debt ceiling has been lifted numerous times without fanfare or fainting spells. All we face this week is a fabricated opportunity ... More >>
If Bush or Giuliani Had Been Stoltenberg
Tuesday, 26 July 2011, 12:42 pm | David Swanson
The murder spree in Norway was apparently the work of a Norwegian, not a group of foreigners, and for various other reasons the comparison is not exact. Nonetheless, it's tempting to wonder how many people would still be alive today if George W. Bush ... More >>
Even Birds Have Withdrawn From Afghanistan
Tuesday, 26 July 2011, 12:38 pm | David Swanson
Comparing the brain sizes of migratory birds and U.S. presidents may not help explain this one. Birds have been avoiding Afghanistan for some years now. Afghans with higher educations have been leaving for decades. War profiteers, and occupation profiteers, ... More >>
Our Schools Look Like Our Government
Tuesday, 26 July 2011, 11:44 am | David Swanson
A government that works for Wall Street and a war machine will sooner or later create schools that work for the same ends. Here's a vicious cycle: rather than funding good schools, we fund the military and its recruiters. Then we lower the qualifications ... More >>
If Bush or Giuliani Had Been Stoltenberg
Tuesday, 26 July 2011, 11:40 am | David Swanson
The murder spree in Norway was apparently the work of a Norwegian, not a group of foreigners, and for various other reasons the comparison is not exact. Nonetheless, it's tempting to wonder how many people would still be alive today if George W. Bush ... More >>
Even Birds Have Withdrawn From Afghanistan
Tuesday, 26 July 2011, 11:34 am | David Swanson
Comparing the brain sizes of migratory birds and U.S. presidents may not help explain this one. Birds have been avoiding Afghanistan for some years now. Afghans with higher educations have been leaving for decades. War profiteers, and occupation profiteers, ... More >>
Afghan Judges Accuse U.S. of War Crimes
Monday, 25 July 2011, 12:00 pm | David Swanson
I recently sat down for 90 minutes to speak with six Afghan judges, all of them women, and an English-Dari interpreter, a man. They spoke to me as individuals. They aren't preparing any investigations or indictments. The relevance of their being judges ... More >>
