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David Swanson: Oneonta
Thursday, 2 November 2006, 2:49 pm | David Swanson
There's a small college town in New York state called Oneonta. Some of the students at the state university there organized an event Monday night that had terrific turnout, and for once the crowd at a college political event was made up of mostly college ... More >>
To the Virgins to Make Less of Passing Legislation
Thursday, 2 November 2006, 2:41 pm | David Swanson
So you think you can pass bills now - You're dipping your quills now - You're ready to legislate More >>
David Swanson: Republicans For Slave Labor
Monday, 30 October 2006, 12:01 am | David Swanson
What if there were Republicans in Congress who supported forced abortions and prostitution and slave labor? And what if there were progressive Democrats running against them. Meet Republican Congress Members John Doolittle and Richard Pombo and their challengers ... More >>
Karl Rove Announces Plans to Steal Election '06
Friday, 27 October 2006, 2:41 pm | David Swanson
White House political head honcho Karl Rove was interviewed by National Public Radio yesterday. He effectively announced plans to steal the coming elections. The polls point decisively to a Democratic majority in the House, and possibly in the Senate. ... More >>
Rumsfeld and Saddam: Guilt Buy Association
Thursday, 26 October 2006, 11:00 am | David Swanson
The White House has arranged to announce two days before the November 7, 2006, elections a guilty verdict for Saddam Hussein and, no doubt, plans to finally murder him. Meanwhile an appeals process is delaying until at least five days after the elections release ... More >>
Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld Prosecuted By Ed Asner
Thursday, 26 October 2006, 12:30 am | David Swanson
The evidence that Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld lied us into a war is overwhelming but also dry and dense. But imagine seeing it presented coherently and systematically in a dramatic performance full of humor and emotion. That is the gift that playwrite ... More >>
Audio: David Swanson Interview With Dennis Loo
Sunday, 22 October 2006, 1:18 pm | David Swanson
Interview With Dennis Loo, Co-Editor of "Impeach the President, the Case Against Bush and Cheney" David Swanson: Dennis Loo, it's good to talk to you. Dennis Loo: Thank you for having me, David. More >>
The Industrial Services Complex a.k.a The Military
Friday, 20 October 2006, 11:05 am | David Swanson
"Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers," by far the best film Robert Greenwald has created, is not about the military industrial complex. Rather, it is about the remaining shell of the former military, having embedded within itself not just the media, but numerous ... More >>
Swanson: Bush as Brat - Pretensions to Empire
Thursday, 19 October 2006, 11:40 am | David Swanson
Lewis Lapham, essayist extraordinaire and editor of Harper's magazine, asked Congressman John Conyers what he thought the point was of publishing a lengthy report laying out evidence of Bush's impeachable offenses. Conyers' response was: "to take away ... More >>
Audio: Congressional Candidate Tony Trupiano
Tuesday, 17 October 2006, 11:01 am | David Swanson
Here's a 30-minute mp3 file of an interview I recorded earlier today with Tony Trupiano, the former national radio host who is now the Democratic nominee to throw Bush-follower Thaddeus McCotter out of his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives where he fails ... More >>
Swanson: A Blue District Gone Red, Coming Back
Monday, 16 October 2006, 10:05 am | David Swanson
If you live in a solidly red (Republican) or blue (Democratic) district, then the Fifth Congressional District of Virginia might strike you as a moderate area being contested by two moderate candidates. The historically Democratic district, which ... More >>
Did They Fool You On Iraq? Are You Ready For Iran?
Monday, 16 October 2006, 12:22 am | David Swanson
A majority of Americans supported attacking Iraq, but now a majority of Americans say it was the wrong thing to do and that they were lied to. If you are among those who supported the attack on Iraq but now believe you were mistaken, then you have ... More >>
David Swanson: The Genius of John Nichols
Monday, 9 October 2006, 1:29 pm | David Swanson
With "The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders' Cure for Royalism," John Nichols has produced a masterpiece that should be required reading in every high school and college in the United States. Unlike several recently published books, this is not an argument ... More >>
David Swanson: Mommy, What's Waterboarding?
Thursday, 5 October 2006, 12:15 am | David Swanson
Remember the great harm done to the moral core of our nation when, according to the excited news reports following Kenneth Starr's great work in life, children were asking their parents what oral sex was? Neither do I. But children can now ask their ... More >>
Swanson: Treating Criminality As Daring Boldness
Friday, 29 September 2006, 10:23 am | David Swanson
Ron Brownstein wrote a column this week that illustrates exactly how far the corporate media will go in criticizing President Bush. Brownstein's criticism is not motivated by his own reflections. More >>
Peace Activists Arrested on Grounds of US Capitol
Wednesday, 27 September 2006, 10:22 am | David Swanson
Peace activists were arrested earlier today on the west grounds of the United States Capitol. The event was organized by the Declaration of Peace, and the plan was to march around the Capitol and then proceed to protest in Senators' offices (plans ... More >>
Lt. Gen. Odom Speaks Truth In US Capitol Basement
Wednesday, 27 September 2006, 10:15 am | David Swanson
Present (whole time or briefly, in order of arrival): Representatives Lee, Woolsey, Jackson-Lee, Rothman, Kilpatrick, Conyers, Hinchey, Owens, Kaptor, Hoyer (Hoyer!?, yes Hoyer, but he left quickly and did not get a chance to speak), Tierney, Farr, ... More >>
Nuclear Winter, Global Warming, Or Impeachment
Friday, 22 September 2006, 12:16 am | David Swanson
Apologies to Robert Frost, and to you, and your family, and what would have been your great grandchildren. We are sending missiles to Iran on a ship departing my home state of Virginia next week, and the water the ship will be passing through ... More >>
Bush Crimes Commission Verdict: Bush Is Guilty
Thursday, 14 September 2006, 11:21 am | David Swanson
The testimony that I presented in January to the International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration was related to the evidence found in the Downing Street Memos. This evidence is connected to Count 1 ... More >>
David Swanson: Dedicating September 11th to Bush
Wednesday, 13 September 2006, 10:49 am | David Swanson
George W. Bush is an ordinary human being, in fact a quite stupid one. So are all of his handlers. They are ordinary people, and we have the power, should we choose to use it, to throw them out of our public housing. More >>
