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David Swanson: The Cablization of Network News
Monday, 4 September 2006, 1:10 pm | David Swanson
On Tuesday, September 5th, at least three things will change. Congress will finish vacationing and return to its long and difficult task of destroying the world; many of us will welcome our Congress Members back to Washington with a giant protest camp ... More >>
David Swanson: The Best War Ever
Tuesday, 22 August 2006, 10:51 am | David Swanson
Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber have a new book, which is always a good thing; but this one is especially good. It's called "The Best War Ever: Lies, Damned Lies, and the Mess in Iraq." It's 206 pages and you'll read it in one sitting, because it's ... More >>
AWOL Sergeant Turns Himself in Resisting Iraq War
Wednesday, 16 August 2006, 8:36 am | David Swanson
SEATTLE -- Ricky Clousing, a Sergeant in the U.S. Army, and a veteran of the Iraq War who has been AWOL for a year announced today at the Veterans for Peace convention in Seattle that he will turn himself in later today at the gates of Fort Lewis and ... More >>
Bush Versus the Constitution
Friday, 11 August 2006, 2:49 pm | David Swanson
Last December, when Congressman John Conyers released a huge report documenting the evidence that Bush and Cheney had lied us into a war, he also introduced a bill (H. Res. 635) to start a preliminary investigation of the matter and make recommendations ... More >>
David Swanson: The Shame of Not Being Mexican
Thursday, 3 August 2006, 5:11 pm | David Swanson
I'll grant you that in the United States our two big political parties never nominate a candidate of, by, or for poor people. Nonetheless, we have now established a pattern of stolen elections, and we have NOT taken over our nation's capital to demand justice. ... More >>
David Swanson: Impeachment - Why and How
Tuesday, 25 July 2006, 3:02 pm | David Swanson
Many previous presidents and vice presidents have committed one or two of the following crimes. Never before has any approached this total level of assault on the Constitution. If we do not impeach now, we never can again, and the legislative branch will not ... More >>
Swanson: Rupert Murdoch Hosted Hillary Fundraiser
Wednesday, 19 July 2006, 11:07 am | David Swanson
On Monday, July 17, 2006, at Fox News headquarters in New York City, Rupert Murdoch hosted a fundraiser breakfast for Hillary Clinton. Then he rushed off to a fundraiser lunch for John McCain, and Hillary rushed off to announce her unqualified support ... More >>
Swanson: Containing the Military Indust. Complex
Monday, 17 July 2006, 12:21 am | David Swanson
More than any other weapons system, the chief products of the military industrial complex are lies. We just learned this week that Congress was cracking down on corruption by denying another contract to Halliburton. In reality, Halliburton has completed ... More >>
GOP Rep. Says Bush Should Be Removed from Office
Thursday, 13 July 2006, 10:47 am | David Swanson
A radio show reported yesterday that Republican Texas Congressman Ron Paul said the following: "I would have trouble arguing that he's been a Constitutional President, and once you violate the Constitution and be proven to do that I think these people ... More >>
Geneva Convention? We Thought You Said Geneva Choc
Wednesday, 12 July 2006, 3:55 pm | David Swanson
Do you get the impression that President Bush has spent as much time in Law School as he's spent in the Alabama Air National Guard? I've never spent a minute in either, myself, and claim no particular expertise at interpreting the Third Geneva Convention, ... More >>
David Swanson Interview: Command Rape
Monday, 10 July 2006, 9:49 am | David Swanson
Suzanne Swift's story begins in an all-too-familiar way. A dead-end job, a friendly military recruiter, a promise that signing-up as military police would mean no deployment to Iraq, a broken promise, and a trip to war. Then it takes a less commonly heard ... More >>
On the 4th, Read the Declaration of Impeachment
Friday, 30 June 2006, 11:34 am | David Swanson
Veterans for Peace has drafted a Declaration of Impeachment using nothing but excerpts from the Declaration of Independence (plus a few words in parentheses). It reads as follows, and should be read at picnics and protests on the Fourth of July: More >>
US Army Officer Refuses Deployment Orders
Saturday, 24 June 2006, 5:07 pm | David Swanson
Ft. Lewis, WA-- First Lieutenant Ehren K. Watada refused orders today to deploy to Iraq as his Stryker Brigade began deployment. He reported to duty at 2:00 a.m. at Ft Lewis, WA, and refused orders to move to the adjacent McChord Air Force Base to ... More >>
Tomgram : David Swanson On War Porn And Iraq
Thursday, 15 June 2006, 11:09 am | David Swanson
David Swanson On War Porn And Iraq Tomgram compiled and edited by Tom Engelhardt Tomdispatch.com From: http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=9131 More >>
No Permanent Iraq Bases: Passed & Removed in Conf.
Friday, 9 June 2006, 5:17 pm | David Swanson
When the House and the Senate pass similar but not identical bills, they create a conference committee to work out the differences. When they both passed amendments to the "emergency supplemental" spending bill stipulating that none of the money ... More >>
David Swanson: Safe Passage On The Earth
Friday, 9 June 2006, 11:00 am | David Swanson
In 1975 Dorothy T. Samuel published "Safe Passage on City Streets," a book that examined the state of mind and behavior of people who tended not to get attacked on city streets or tended to walk away unscathed. She found that the safest people were not those ... More >>
Nine State Democratic Parties Back Impeachment
Wednesday, 7 June 2006, 12:08 am | David Swanson
Nominal leader of the Democrats in Congress Nancy Pelosi, following talking points produced by the Republican National Committee, recently told her fellow Dems to keep impeachment off the table. This past weekend, the Democratic Parties in Maine, New ... More >>
Stay in Iraq Until it's Peaceful or We're Sane
Tuesday, 6 June 2006, 5:02 pm | David Swanson
Have you ever heard someone try to argue that the Iraq War was a mistake but that now the proper course is to continue the mistake a bit longer or to carefully end it in a long and complicated way that could take months or years? Have you ever wondered ... More >>
11 Excellent Reasons Not to Join the U.S. Military
Tuesday, 6 June 2006, 4:36 pm | David Swanson
Eleven Excellent Reasons Not to Join the Military By David Swanson I just read an excellent book from http://www.endthewartour.org called "10 Excellent Reasons Not to Join the Military." Personally I was never attracted to the military ... More >>
David Swanson: Peace in a Gas Pump
Tuesday, 30 May 2006, 11:50 am | David Swanson
May 28 -- This evening here in Virginia, Bruce Springsteen and the Seeger Sessions Band jammed for hours at an outdoor pavilion, leading tens of thousands of us in protest songs, including a powerful rendition of "Bring Them Home." The concert was ... More >>
