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Afghan Judges Accuse U.S. of War Crimes
Saturday, 23 July 2011, 10:40 am | 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 >>
Our Schools Look like Our Government
Thursday, 21 July 2011, 1:42 pm | 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. More >>
Move Budget Debate to One of Those Democracies We're Bombing
Wednesday, 20 July 2011, 11:32 am | David Swanson
Imagine how radically different the current debate over the Giant Debt Ceiling Monster would look if we moved it to one of those nations we're bombing into a democracy. Imagine us all still U.S. residents with the same views we have now, but imagine ... More >>
Prisoners Have Nothing to Gain by Eating
Tuesday, 19 July 2011, 3:36 pm | David Swanson
Prisoners risking death by refusing food in the Pelican Bay supermax, and those hunger striking in solidarity in prisons around California are a judgment of our sickness. "The degree of civilization in a society," said Dostoyevsky, "can be judged ... More >>
Prisoners Have Nothing to Gain By Eating
Tuesday, 19 July 2011, 11:52 am | David Swanson
Prisoners risking death by refusing food in the Pelican Bay supermax, and those hunger striking in solidarity in prisons around California are a judgment of our sickness. "The degree of civilization in a society," said Dostoyevsky, "can be judged by entering ... More >>
Human Rights Watch Announces That Bush and Cheney Tortured
Monday, 18 July 2011, 10:26 am | David Swanson
Statutes of limitations for torture not resulting in death have passed. The DOJ has refused to prosecute 99 of 101 cases of torture-to-death that it looked at. Obama has long since publicly told the DOJ not to prosecute the CIA for torture. Obama's ... More >>
Murdoch Has Blood on His Hands
Monday, 18 July 2011, 10:18 am | David Swanson
Nailing Rupert Murdoch for his employees' phone tapping or bribery would be a little like bringing down Al Capone for tax fraud, or George W. Bush for torture. I'd be glad to see it happen but there'd still be something perverse about it. More >>
Murdoch Has Blood on His Hands
Friday, 15 July 2011, 10:57 am | David Swanson
Nailing Rupert Murdoch for his employees' phone tapping or bribery would be a little like bringing down Al Capone for tax fraud, or George W. Bush for torture. I'd be glad to see it happen but there'd still be something perverse about it. More >>
Human Rights Watch Announces That Bush and Cheney Tortured
Wednesday, 13 July 2011, 3:22 pm | David Swanson
Statutes of limitations for torture not resulting in death have passed. The DOJ has refused to prosecute 99 of 101 cases of torture-to-death that it looked at. Obama has long since publicly told the DOJ not to prosecute the CIA for torture. Obama's ... More >>
Going Neutral on Obama? Not on a Moving Train!
Tuesday, 12 July 2011, 1:55 pm | David Swanson
How often have we been told that we can't have a serious nonviolent movement resisting our government's destructive path as long as the Democrats are better than the Republicans? How often have we been told that we can't back third-party candidates as long as ... More >>
The There's Plenty of Money Act of 2012
Tuesday, 12 July 2011, 12:48 pm | David Swanson
112th CONGRESS 1st Session To highly resolve that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the United States of America. More >>
Going Neutral on Obama? Not on a Moving Train!
Tuesday, 12 July 2011, 12:46 pm | David Swanson
How often have we been told that we can't have a serious nonviolent movement resisting our government's destructive path as long as the Democrats are better than the Republicans? How often have we been told that we can't back third-party candidates as long as ... More >>
Congresspeak: The Language of Impotence
Tuesday, 12 July 2011, 12:43 pm | David Swanson
The House of Representatives would be better off speaking Arabic. See if you can make heads or tails of this. The House voted down a bill to end the Libya War. At the same time, it passed a nonbinding House-only resolution that said the President ... More >>
Congresspeak: The Language of Impotence
Monday, 11 July 2011, 3:11 pm | David Swanson
The House of Representatives would be better off speaking Arabic. See if you can make heads or tails of this. The House voted down a bill to end the Libya War. At the same time, it passed a nonbinding House-only resolution that said the President ... More >>
The There's Plenty of Money Act of 2012
Monday, 11 July 2011, 3:05 pm | David Swanson
112th CONGRESS 1st Session To highly resolve that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the United States of America. More >>
Killing Old People Is Fiscally Responsible
Friday, 8 July 2011, 4:41 pm | David Swanson
"The fiscal good has to outweigh the pain," a nameless Democrat told the Washington Post regarding President Obama's latest proposal to massively cut Social Security, against the wishes of the vast majority of Americans, in order to fund a military ... More >>
We Stopped Congress from Giving Power of War to Presidents
Thursday, 7 July 2011, 4:25 pm | David Swanson
"What's the point?" "We never win!" "Why bother trying?" This time we won . This is the point. Congressman Buck McKeon and Senator John McCain proposed to give Obama and all future presidents dramatically expanded powers to launch wars. More >>
Killing Old People Is Fiscally Responsible
Thursday, 7 July 2011, 3:57 pm | David Swanson
"The fiscal good has to outweigh the pain," a nameless Democrat told the Washington Post regarding President Obama's latest proposal to massively cut Social Security, against the wishes of the vast majority of Americans, in order to fund a military ... More >>
Imagine a MoveOn That Doesn't Answer to Democrats
Tuesday, 5 July 2011, 3:36 pm | David Swanson
On Friday I read in the New York Times that President Obama would be happy to cut $200 billion out of Medicare in order to inflict pain on his Democratic base, part of an imagined tradeoff in which the two parties inflict pain on their imagined bases ... More >>
John Dean Does Not Know How to Get Rid of Clarence Thomas
Tuesday, 5 July 2011, 3:28 pm | David Swanson
Am I the only one who noticed that ex-Nixon lawyer John Dean's article "John Dean Knows How to Get Rid of Clarence Thomas" concludes thus: "In short, nothing is going to happen to Clarence Thomas." Talk about false advertising! More >>
