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David Swanson: New Year's Utopianism Needed Fast
Thursday, 28 December 2006, 8:15 pm | David Swanson
Unbeknownst to many Americans, there is overwhelming consensus among scientists that we are very close to reaching a point of no turning back on global warming, which is caused by the burning of fossil fuels. We are approaching a point at which all ... More >>
My Congressman Makes Me Prouder Than Ever
Thursday, 21 December 2006, 12:57 am | David Swanson
This article helps explain why I spend so much time trying to lobby other people's Congress Members, hoping that perhaps I share the same century with them. If you can return the favor and are inspired by this article to give Virgil Goode a call, ... More >>
VIDEO: Colin Powell Asked About His Pre-War Lies
Wednesday, 20 December 2006, 4:11 pm | David Swanson
On this page, Jonathan Schwartz has posted an analysis of Colin Powell's fraudulent U.N. presentation, together with two short videos just produced by Sam Husseini of the Institute for Public Accuracy: http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/001238.html More >>
David Swanson: McKinney Smith Bush & Impeachment
Monday, 11 December 2006, 5:14 pm | David Swanson
Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney has introduced articles of impeachment against George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Condoleezza Rice. In doing so, she alone has spoken for the 51 percent of Americans who Newsweek says want Bush impeached. A considerably higher ... More >>
The Best Reasons Not to Impeach, Why They're Wrong
Monday, 11 December 2006, 3:24 pm | David Swanson
Political questions are tricky and complicated. Sometimes causes that are just and good must take a backseat to other priorities or long-term strategies. Setting all such perfectly reasonable considerations aside for a moment, I'd like you to ask ... More >>
Swanson: Live Blogging from Gates Hearing
Thursday, 7 December 2006, 10:17 pm | David Swanson
9:15 a.m. ET, 12/5/2006 -- The hearing hasn't started yet. Ray McGovern is sitting in the front row. If the questioning is lame, he and I will try to get everyone chanting "You won the elections! Now ask real questions!" unless one of you has a better chant ... More >>
David Swanson: Honesty in Iraq
Tuesday, 5 December 2006, 6:02 pm | David Swanson
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune recently published an editorial that said of Bush: "His pronouncements now bear no resemblance to reality." Now? Oh, never mind. More >>
Swanson: Hearings on Bush Crimes Will Unite Nation
Saturday, 2 December 2006, 8:59 pm | David Swanson
An astonishing 44 percent of Americans do not want President Bush impeached (Newsweek), 36 percent approve of the job he's doing (AP-Ipsos), 33 percent support the Iraq War (CNN). What, you may ask, is the matter with these people? Well, primarily this: ... More >>
David Swanson: Closer to Home
Friday, 1 December 2006, 4:58 pm | David Swanson
I did something worse than St. Augustine did when I was a kid. I must confess I broke into a house on the other side of town, and I did it just because it was such an ugly beat-down house that needed work so badly. Well, that and I kind of wanted to ... More >>
Be All That You Can Be: Leave the Army
Wednesday, 29 November 2006, 8:30 pm | David Swanson
As long as there has been a U.S. military, people have been leaving it. That choice has never been more appropriate than today. Individuals who signed up to defend the United States are engaged in a war that was sold on the basis of lies, was entirely ... More >>
New Downing Street Memos from Down Under
Monday, 27 November 2006, 5:24 pm | David Swanson
Over a year before the United States launched an endless war on Iraq in what President George W. Bush told Congress was an urgently needed action to prevent an attack with nonexistent weapons by non-Iraqi terrorists… More >>
David Swanson: U.S. v. Bush
Wednesday, 22 November 2006, 12:26 am | David Swanson
Now, we almost all agree that Bush and Cheney have done bad things. But have they actually committed crimes? If you know anyone who has any doubts on this topic, may I recommend a brilliant little book for you to stick in their stocking next month? More >>
Want to End the War? Ask for Investigations!
Monday, 20 November 2006, 3:14 pm | David Swanson
Public awareness of the lies that led to the war and the crimes committed during the war helps build public demand for the troops to come home. Not every committee in Congress can work fulltime on simply ending the war: a legislative process that ... More >>
Will They or Won't They: Last Chance for Democrats
Friday, 17 November 2006, 2:27 pm | David Swanson
I'm fully confident that anyone who tries to work with Bush will contribute to problems for this and many other countries. I get the impression I'm not alone: Americans just elected dozens of new Democrats and not a single new Republican. More >>
David Swanson: Off the Table - A Farce in One Act
Monday, 13 November 2006, 12:31 am | David Swanson
Stage set: a dining room at left, an office at right A woman enters the office where the phone is ringing. She answers it. NP: Hello? Why do you ask? Yes, I'm sure. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Impeachment is off the table. Now let me tell ... More >>
Swanson: Throwing Stuff Over the White House Fence
Friday, 10 November 2006, 11:09 am | David Swanson
On Wednesday, Cindy Sheehan, Ann Wright, Lennox Yearwood, and about 50 other activists for peace met up on the sidewalk in front of the White House. I brought along a box containing 6,000-some pages of names and comments: about 80,000 names with cities ... More >>
David Swanson: A Bulk Rate on Printing Subpoenas?
Thursday, 9 November 2006, 1:10 pm | David Swanson
Chairman John Conyers Jr. Chairman Henry Waxman. Those titles will prove to be the most important outcome of yesterday's elections, even if the Dems get the Senate too. More >>
David Swanson: Wow Is NPR Soothing
Wednesday, 8 November 2006, 2:10 pm | David Swanson
Sheesh. Took me 4 hours to drive into DC. I came to hang out with Cindy Sheehan at the White House – that is: outside protesting, where we all should be – and to talk on Pacifica Radio about the elections. Pacifica is broadcasting from the DCCC ... More >>
David Swanson: The Plan Bush Is Looking For
Monday, 6 November 2006, 5:30 pm | David Swanson
Our President is pretending that the Democrats have no plan for Iraq, and the media is repeating that pretense unchallenged. But a lot depends on which Democrats we look to. DNC Chair Howard Dean has no more plan than Bush himself. Ohio Congressman ... More >>
Ed Asner On Illegal War And Impeachment
Monday, 6 November 2006, 3:28 pm | David Swanson
Excerpts: "Well, you know, most of the time when I encounter Rumsfeld on the news, etc, it's like talking to the white rabbit . . . . We are an unmotivated, cowering people. We will say, 'Shame on you, shame on you, shame on you,' but teachers are ... More >>
