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Swanson: The Fierce Urgency of Impeachment
Tuesday, 6 March 2007, 6:31 pm | David Swanson
It's an honor to be speaking with these panelists and it's great to be back in New York. But I want to ask you one thing about New York, because there's something I heard Senator Hillary Clinton say and I want to know if it's true. Is it true that ... More >>
David Swanson: Can Congress End the War?
Monday, 5 March 2007, 8:39 pm | David Swanson
The shortest route to ending the Iraq war (and preventing additional wars) is almost certainly through Congress. Influencing the White House directly is unimaginable, and stopping the war through the courts unlikely. Clearly, Congress is the way to ... More >>
Karen Kwiatkowski On Feith, Cheney & Planning Iran
Monday, 5 March 2007, 8:33 pm | David Swanson
The following is a remarkable interview of Karen Kwiatkowski who retired from the active duty USAF as a Lieutenant Colonel in early 2003. Her final assignment was in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Under Secretary for Policy Near East South ... More >>
New York Times Spins Health Coverage Opinion
Monday, 5 March 2007, 8:17 pm | David Swanson
The New York Times and CBS News recently polled the US public: After a long list of questions that confused any distinction between health care and health coverage, the New York Times/CBS asked: "Do you think it would be fair or unfair for the government ... More >>
David Swanson: The Employee Free Fire Zone Act
Monday, 5 March 2007, 8:05 pm | David Swanson
The House has just passed the Employee Free Choice Act, a bill that would effectively restore to Americans the internationally and domestically recognized but nonexistant right to form unions. The US labor movement has invested untold millions in lobbying ... More >>
Swanson: I'm More Pro-Troop Than You Are
Monday, 5 March 2007, 8:02 pm | David Swanson
As war wages on in the Middle East, there's a heated battle on Capitol Hill over which political party's proposals to continue the war are more PRO-TROOP. There's a raging debate over exactly what set of futile recommendations to the dictator living ... More >>
David Swanson: Doug Feith Versus The Blogosphere
Friday, 2 March 2007, 11:44 am | David Swanson
David: This is David Swanson with Allison Hantschel, the blogger of the blog site, First Draft http://www.first-draft.com , and the author of the book "Special Plans, the blogs on Douglas Feith and the faulty intelligence that led us to war." Allison, ... More >>
David Swanson: Testimony for Impeachment Hearing
Friday, 2 March 2007, 11:43 am | David Swanson
I live in Charlottesville, Va., the home town of Thomas Jefferson, who feared we would not be able to maintain a republic and would slip into elected despotism. I am the Washington (DC) Director of Democrats.com and of ImpeachPAC.org. More >>
David Swanson: Only Nonviolence Will End The War
Friday, 2 March 2007, 9:59 am | David Swanson
A handful of pro-war people, some volunteer and some probably paid to be there, will stage a counter-demonstration. This relatively tiny pro-death contingent will garner 50 percent of the media coverage if those on the side of peace do everything right. ... More >>
Cindy Sheehan, George Will, & Loving Your Enemies
Monday, 26 February 2007, 10:01 am | David Swanson
Peace activist and gold star mother Cindy Sheehan and spokesman for a war-based oligarchy George Will both published columns this weekend arguing that non-Americans are human beings. Sheehan's column was written in response to an Associated Press ... More >>
Congress Must Reauthorize Use of the Constitution
Sunday, 25 February 2007, 10:41 pm | David Swanson
It is at least conceivable that Congressman Jack Murtha and company are backing off on requiring that Bush and Cheney send only prepared, equipped, and rested men and women to the slaughter for more than one reason. More >>
Activists Throw Out A PM, Too Bad It Was Italy's
Sunday, 25 February 2007, 10:29 pm | David Swanson
Activists Throw Out A PM, Too Bad It Was Italy's Peace Activists Just Threw Out a Prime Minister: Too Bad It Was Italy's By David Swanson Prime Minister Richard Cheney may be glancing around with more nervousness and menace than usual after recent news ... More >>
David Swanson: Impeach07 Campaign Launched
Friday, 23 February 2007, 12:19 am | David Swanson
There is movement in the impeachment movement. And it's motivated by a strange sensation: hope. In Olympia, Wa., on Tuesday, over 800 people crammed in for a forum on impeachment with Ray McGovern, Elizabeth de la Vega, and Dave Lindorff. Why? More >>
David Swanson: Sex and Torture in America
Tuesday, 13 February 2007, 9:54 am | David Swanson
How does sex differ from torture? The one is good and the other bad, might be your immediate reply. But were I to describe an act of torture, this would be taken as a serious article. More >>
Truth Exposed by Senate Armed Services Hearing
Tuesday, 13 February 2007, 9:43 am | David Swanson
The Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing today at which the Inspector General of the Pentagon, Thomas Gimble, testified that – and I'm loosely paraphrasing – the Iraq War was launched on a pack of lies. More >>
David Swanson: Feith Based Intelligence
Tuesday, 13 February 2007, 9:43 am | David Swanson
On Newsweek's website you can flip through a short PDF slideshow of a presentation produced by the Pentagon in 2002. The presentation purports to show that Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda were working together and had been for years. Not only was this a presentation ... More >>
Dems Change the Gas and Claim It's a New Car
Tuesday, 13 February 2007, 9:03 am | David Swanson
Democrats on Capitol Hill see the world through bureaucratic shades and have been circulating this self-congratulatory Email: "Over the last four years,the Republican Congress failed to conduct oversight on the Iraq war and failed to hold the Administration ... More >>
David Swanson: Iran Lies
Tuesday, 13 February 2007, 12:17 am | David Swanson
Here's the latest reason they must be telling the truth about Iran and the need for a new war: they lied about the last one. That's right, according to the latest dispatch from the Associated Press, More >>
David Swanson: Senators Quietly Oppose Escalation
Monday, 12 February 2007, 9:33 am | David Swanson
This MyDD blog entry and this Politico article describe this PDF showing the results of a poll of all 100 U.S. Senators . It asks how they voted on the war in 2002, whether they regret that vote, whether they support escalating the war, and whether they ... More >>
Rightwingers Attacking War Supporters
Sunday, 11 February 2007, 10:06 pm | David Swanson
This is what it's come to. The local newspaper in my town in Virginia today ran an op-ed by rightwinger Cal Thomas attacking Hillary Clinton for her past support for the war. Thomas began by criticizing Clinton for pretending she had never supported ... More >>
