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Edwards Just Put Obama Over the Top
Thursday, 15 May 2008, 10:22 am | David Swanson
John Edwards just endorsed Barack Obama. If Edwards' 19 delegates take his advice and vote for Obama, then Obama now has 1,620 pledged delegates to Clinton's 1,441. There are 189 delegates left to be pledged in remaining states. Clinton needs to ... More >>
Obama-Clinton Hilarious Math Update
Thursday, 8 May 2008, 12:14 pm | David Swanson
It's reached a point that everyone has known for months it had to reach, the point at which even people paid to do so cannot keep it going with a straight face. On Tuesday, Senator Barack Obama picked up approximately 99 new pledged delegates from ... More >>
Tom Perriello Plans to Unseat Virgil Goode
Thursday, 1 May 2008, 10:40 am | David Swanson
I have the distinct displeasure of being misrepresented in Congress by Virgil Goode, a man best known outside Virginia's Fifth District for having thrown a fit when Congressman Keith Ellison asked to be sworn in on a Koran instead of a Bible. Goode defeated ... More >>
Funny Math, Part II: Impeachment
Wednesday, 30 April 2008, 8:59 pm | David Swanson
There is a widespread myth that an impeachment cannot happen in the space of the nine months Bush and Cheney are scheduled to remain in office. But I'm unable to find any past impeachment that took as long as nine months. It's messy comparing ... More >>
Funny Math, Part I, The Obama-Clinton Story
Wednesday, 30 April 2008, 10:17 am | David Swanson
Obama has 1,491 pledged delegates. Clinton has 1,332 pledged delegates. There remain 44 delegates to be pledged, plus 19 that have been pledged to Edwards. Let's be generous and give all 44 and all 19 to Clinton. That would give her a total of 1,395. Obama ... More >>
War Funding, Impeachment, and Health Care
Friday, 25 April 2008, 10:29 am | David Swanson
When I started giving speeches about Iraq and impeachment three years ago, I liked to list the major impeachable offenses for Bush and for Cheney, but as the list grew it became rather cumbersome. It got to the point where adding another crime to the ... More >>
The 2008 Election Will Be Stolen
Monday, 21 April 2008, 10:44 am | David Swanson
A new collection of essays edited by Mark Crispin Miller called "Loser Take All: Election Fraud and the Subversion of Democracy, 2000 - 2008," tells the story better than any single source I've seen yet. More >>
From Inside a Cage at Guantanamo
Thursday, 17 April 2008, 10:38 am | David Swanson
The guards at Guantanamo are terrified. Even a man with no legs (amputated after being intentionally exposed to extreme cold by American guards in Afghanistan) is treated as a horrifying threat: More >>
Does the US Constitution Require Impeachment
Tuesday, 15 April 2008, 11:52 am | David Swanson
John Adams, who was later the second president of the United States, wrote some words in the Constitution of Massachusetts that have been quoted approvingly by the U.S. Supreme Court and every state supreme court in the United States. He described a ... More >>
Talking With a Friend Who Hates Muslims
Wednesday, 9 April 2008, 2:26 pm | David Swanson
Thanks for raising an extremely important topic, one that I think we should all be examining closely and discussing in depth, especially with those who are starting from different positions, and even if we're afraid we may have to - in the end - ... More >>
Conyers Threatens Impeachment if Iran Attacked
Tuesday, 8 April 2008, 8:52 am | David Swanson
Coming out of today's meeting with John Conyers , these seem to be the significant developments: More >>
David Swanson: Successes Sneaking Up on Us?
Tuesday, 1 April 2008, 2:24 pm | David Swanson
A coffee cooperative in Minnesota makes money by creating fair trade and cutting out corporate middlemen. More >>
The Dangerous Theism of Chris Hedges
Friday, 28 March 2008, 4:09 pm | David Swanson
Chris Hedges recently published an article called "The Dangerous Atheism of Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris," ( http://www.alternet.org/rights/80449 ) but he failed to include in it any indication of what he thinks is dangerous about their atheism. ... More >>
May Day Proposal: A Call To Action
Wednesday, 26 March 2008, 10:50 pm | David Swanson
May Day, the First of May, 2008, is a Thursday. According to the Bush Administration it is Loyalty Day. Are you feeling loyal? According to history Bush would like to forget, it is the five-year anniversary of a flight-suited George W. waddling across ... More >>
An Activist Movement to End the Occupation of Iraq
Wednesday, 26 March 2008, 10:00 pm | David Swanson
Robert Dreyfuss's presentation that I now have to follow was tremendous and I learned a lot, but I disagree with his pessimism. I am fond of the saying "Let's save our pessimism for better times." It's a choice to be a pessimist, and it is a wrong one, ... More >>
The "Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq"
Saturday, 22 March 2008, 2:00 pm | David Swanson
There is no "war" in Iraq, which is something that can be won or lost between two armies. There is a permanent illegal hostile occupation of a people by a single army. It can never be won or lost and should not be called a "war." It should be called ... More >>
David Swanson: Make McCain Choose
Monday, 17 March 2008, 11:53 am | David Swanson
What if Senator John McCain were forced to choose an extremely and increasingly unpopular position and stand by it for months as it became less and less popular? More >>
David Swanson: Will Police Arrest Bush and Cheney?
Tuesday, 4 March 2008, 9:34 am | David Swanson
"Shall the Selectboard instruct the Town Attorney to draft indictments against President Bush and Vice President Cheney for crimes against our Constitution and publish said indictments for consideration by other authorities" More >>
David Swanson: Petards of Mass Destruction
Friday, 29 February 2008, 10:49 am | David Swanson
Is it possible to convict a group of people of the highest possible crime simply by editing together public statements that they made while planning it? If so, the best attempt at doing so is found in a new 72-minute film available for free online. More >>
David Swanson: Senator Feingold's Peace Effort
Wednesday, 27 February 2008, 10:13 am | David Swanson
Senator Russ Feingold (D., Wisc.) is preparing to give the Republicans in the Senate two more opportunities this week to grandstand and filibuster in favor of the occupation of Iraq. They will, of course, do so; and they will, of course, win. More >>
