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David Swanson: American Samaritans
Tuesday, 22 July 2008, 12:52 am | David Swanson
There are probably three things necessary if the United States government is to better provide for the American people: First, expose as baseless and harmful the pseudoscientific theories that claim to show that helping people actually hurts them, that charity ... More >>
How They'll Try to Bury Impeachment and Fail
Sunday, 20 July 2008, 7:15 pm | David Swanson
In response to public demand for impeachment hearings and pressure from Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Congressman Robert Wexler, and others, as well as electoral challenges by pro-impeachment candidates, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi finally caved and proposed ... More >>
'BiPartisan' Pelosi Opposes Impeachment
Sunday, 20 July 2008, 6:58 pm | David Swanson
Saturday morning, July 19. Sitting here at the Netroots Nation conference in Austin, Texas with several thousand other online activists. Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Party Speaker of the House, the third most powerful politician in the United States, is ... More >>
David Swanson: Obama's Plan for Iraq
Tuesday, 15 July 2008, 3:51 pm | David Swanson
Senator Obama published a sketch of a plan for Iraq in the New York Times today, and it's about the same as his plan has always been, clearly superior to Bush or McCain and yet horribly muddled, vague, and militaristic, until he gets to the highly ... More >>
101 Reasons Not to Resist Bush's Power Grab
Friday, 4 July 2008, 1:17 pm | David Swanson
The number and variety of the excuses for failing, in various ways, to resist the transition we are in from democratic republic to dictatorship never ceases to amaze me. A lot of the time I imagine that Congress members hold all the prizes in this ... More >>
George W. Bush to Speak at Monticello on July 4
Sunday, 29 June 2008, 10:30 pm | David Swanson
The Unitary Executive is scheduled to disgrace the grounds of Thomas Jefferson's house, Monticello, in Charlottesville, Va., making a speech on the morning of July 4, 2008. The event is open to the public, and is Monticello's annual Independence ... More >>
David Swanson: The Last Fourth of July
Sunday, 29 June 2008, 10:26 pm | David Swanson
On the first Fourth of July, the members of the Continental Congress signed a declaration of their disloyalty to the third George to rule the empire, denouncing his abuses of power. They complained of harassment by his troops, of his elevating the military ... More >>
David Swanson: Under Penalty of Punishment
Friday, 27 June 2008, 11:49 am | David Swanson
That's a translation of subpoena: Sub Poena: Under Punishment. And if you or I refused to obey a subpoena we would certainly be under punishment. More >>
In Defense of Robert Wexler
Thursday, 26 June 2008, 8:21 pm | David Swanson
My review of Congressman Robert Wexler's book includes plenty of criticism of him. I would add my extremely negative view of the new get-tough-on-the-nonexistent-threat-from-Iran bill that he's cosponsored. But this attack on him is utter nonsense. More >>
Common Sense Is Overrated
Monday, 23 June 2008, 4:49 pm | David Swanson
Michael Waldman, former Bill Clinton speech writer and current director of the Brennan Center, has a new book called "A Return to Common Sense: 7 Bold Ways to Revitalize Our Democracy." He intends "Common Sense" as a reference to Tom Paine, but after ... More >>
If The Opposite of Pro Is Con...
Monday, 23 June 2008, 1:04 pm | David Swanson
The day before Congress tossed the Fourth Amendment, and literally five minutes after they took out a $163 billion loan on behalf of my unborn grandkids to kill Iraqis and U.S. troops for another year, I had to give a speech at a university in Milwaukee ... More >>
The Biggest Election Story Not on Your TV
Monday, 16 June 2008, 5:44 pm | David Swanson
Congressman Henry Waxman, Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, together with his staff, produces incredibly valuable research and analysis, with infinite patience and futility. More >>
If Waxman Were to Act
Monday, 16 June 2008, 5:21 pm | David Swanson
Congressman Henry Waxman, Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, together with his staff, produces incredibly valuable research and analysis, with infinite patience and futility. More >>
7 Million Quarts of Blood for Oil: No More!
Saturday, 14 June 2008, 4:18 pm | David Swanson
An editorial cartoon in newspapers today shows a Democratic donkey shouting before the war that it's just about cheap oil, and complaining now that there's no cheap oil. So, donkeys are stupid. Q.E.D. More >>
Nixon's Reputation Restored
Thursday, 12 June 2008, 11:32 am | David Swanson
Once upon a time, the United States House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary passed the following article of impeachment (one of three) against President Richard M. Nixon: More >>
Kucinich Lays Out Case for War Crimes Prosecution
Wednesday, 11 June 2008, 2:00 pm | David Swanson
If George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are ever impeached, they will certainly be prosecuted and convicted for war (and other) crimes. If they are not impeached, they may still be eventually convicted, but it won't be as easy. Court rooms are not scientific ... More >>
Blaming Bush for His Greatest Achievement
Wednesday, 11 June 2008, 12:28 am | David Swanson
For those who stayed riveted through the end of Congressman Dennis Kucinich's five-hour reading of his 35 articles of impeachment against President Bush on Monday night, the three articles at the very end of the list must have come as something of a jarring ... More >>
Why Obama Will Win and May Have Already
Wednesday, 4 June 2008, 10:31 am | David Swanson
Barack Obama has more money than Hillary Clinton and is likely to bring in more of it. The money advantage has proved insufficient to Mitt Romney but has benefitted him greatly and will benefit Obama greatly. Obama will run more ads than Clinton, ... More >>
Clinton Only Needs 358% of Remaining Delegates
Monday, 2 June 2008, 2:17 pm | David Swanson
Adios Hillary. Puerto Rico has voted, handing Senator Clinton 38 delegates and Senator Obama 17. That gives Clinton a grand total thus far of 1,618 pledged delegates, and Obama 1,728. While, technically that still leaves Obama with "the lead," there are ... More >>
New NSA Whistleblower Tells of Faulty WMD Evidence
Wednesday, 21 May 2008, 9:12 am | David Swanson
David Murfee Faulk was a translator in the Navy, working in Arabic and Iraqi dialect. In April 2004 he began working for the National Security Agency (NSA) at Fort Gordon outside Augusta, Georgia. (He now writes, under the name Murfee Faulk, for the Metro ... More >>
