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RNC Line on Impeachment: Verily, This Is That
Thursday, 25 May 2006, 11:15 am | David Swanson
Black is white. War is peace. Impeachment is good for Republicans. Haven't you heard? The Republicans say so. The Democrats say so. It just must BE so. More >>
David Swanson: So, How WOULD a Patriot Act?
Wednesday, 24 May 2006, 11:17 am | David Swanson
Glenn Greenwald's new book "How Would a PATRIOT ACT? Defending American Values from a President Run Amok," lays out a powerful, concise, and well-researched argument that President Bush is a threat to our government's system of checks and balances ... More >>
Be a Part of the Growing Pro-Impeachment Movement
Monday, 22 May 2006, 12:56 am | David Swanson
On Friday our President attended a fundraiser in Virginia Beach for a Republican Congress Member. But the Congress Member didn't show up. This has happened a number of times, with both Bush and Cheney. Yesterday, the LA Times ran an article on the ... More >>
David Swanson: 43,000 Reasons Not To Attack Iran
Friday, 19 May 2006, 11:30 am | David Swanson
Some weeks back, Cindy Sheehan asked me to start a petition opposing an attack on Iran. We posted it at www.dontattackiran.org It's wonderful that so many people are here as we deliver the petition to the White House. It would be nice if President ... More >>
Nancy Pelosi Champions Cowardice
Monday, 15 May 2006, 11:33 am | David Swanson
Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi has instructed the Democratic Caucus and promised the corporate media that the Democrats will not impeach Bush and Cheney even if they win a majority in Congress. More >>
Bush Beats Out Nixon: Least Liked President Ever
Monday, 15 May 2006, 12:03 am | David Swanson
This day has been long coming. The graphs have shown it would soon be upon us: Now, here we are . With this new Harris poll, available through the Wall Street Journal , President Bush claims the titlelong held by Richard Nixon: Least Liked President ... More >>
Cindy Sheehan's New Book: Dear President Bush
Friday, 12 May 2006, 3:07 pm | David Swanson
Cindy Sheehan's interviews, essays, and speeches get better with each passing month, as her pain continues, her passion and insight grow, and the war that killed her son goes on – as the president who killed her son goes on being president. Cindy's ... More >>
Bush Lied About Iraq, Has No Right to Attack Iran
Friday, 12 May 2006, 3:07 pm | David Swanson
A new poll conducted in Pennsylvania by Zogby International and commissioned by OpEdNews.com asked some of the questions the corporate media has failed to ask. The answers are surprising. One revelation is this: the single greatest predictor of an American's ... More >>
Cindy Sheehan to Lead Delivery of Iran Petition
Friday, 12 May 2006, 12:41 am | David Swanson
Delivery of petition to White House opposing attack on Iran When: 1-3 p.m., Thursday, May 18 Where: Lafayette Square Park, in front of White House, Washington, D.C. More >>
Ray McGovern Is Going to Rumsfeld's House
Wednesday, 10 May 2006, 10:32 am | David Swanson
center> Ray McGovern wasn't aiming to make Donald Rumsfeld stutter and stammer like a kid caught cheating on a test when he asked him last week why he'd lied us into a war. That was just a side benefit. Ray wants answers, and he's taking his demand ... More >>
David Swanson: Atheists for Peace
Monday, 8 May 2006, 11:40 am | David Swanson
With the exception of Jews and African-Americans, no demographic group in the United States voted more heavily against Bush and for Gore and Kerry than did atheists, who make up 10 percent of the electorate. Atheists tend to be disproportionately ... More >>
Wrongly Convicted, Almost Executed, Awarded $2.25M
Monday, 8 May 2006, 11:40 am | David Swanson
Here's an article about yesterday's jury award of $2.25 million to Earl Washington , whom the state of Virginia came within days of killing for a crime he had been clumsily and obviously framed for. Washington is mentally retarded, poor, and black. ... More >>
David Swanson: Made By Slaves, Backed by Congress
Monday, 8 May 2006, 11:32 am | David Swanson
The Spring 2006 issue of Ms. Magazine contains an article by Rebecca Clarren about some beautiful tropical islands described by disgraced House Majority Leader Tom Delay as "a perfect petri dish of capitalism." What's so perfect about Saipan and ... More >>
Swanson: Lobbying Hitler's Legislature for Peace
Friday, 5 May 2006, 3:36 pm | David Swanson
There are now 37 Congress Members backing an investigation into grounds for impeachment related to the war. Rep. Hilda Solis has joined the list of cosponsors of House Resolution 635, introduced by Congressman John Conyers. http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/635 More >>
David Swanson: Springsteen & Young
Tuesday, 2 May 2006, 1:36 pm | David Swanson
Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young have just released a pair of incredible albums of protest, one a bone-rattling revival of the best of rebel music of ages past, the other an impassioned attack on our present slide toward fascism. More >>
David Swanson: Impeach Cheney First
Tuesday, 2 May 2006, 1:09 pm | David Swanson
We should impeach Vice President Dick Cheney first, and President George Bush immediately thereafter. This idea is not original with me. It's been seen on bumper stickers for quite some time. My attention has been called to it by the fact that Congresswoman ... More >>
The War Looks Different From Inside Congress
Thursday, 27 April 2006, 5:07 pm | David Swanson
Public opinion in the United States and Iraq favors pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq, not to mention removing any who have already entered Iran. This sentiment will be on display this Saturday at the United for Peace and Justice March in New York: www.april29.org More >>
Pacifica Radio Air Congressional Iraq Forum Live
Wednesday, 26 April 2006, 12:38 am | David Swanson
I'll be co-hosting with Verna Avery-Brown of Pacifica Radio a live broadcast on Pacifica from 8:30-11 a.m. ET on Thursday, April 27, of a forum on Capitol Hill hosted by Congresswomen Lynn Woolsey and Barbara Lee. More >>
California 2nd State To Introduce Bush Impeachment
Wednesday, 26 April 2006, 12:35 am | David Swanson
Joining Illinois, California has become the second state in which a proposal to impeach President Bush has been introduced in the state legislature. And this one includes Cheney as well. More >>
David Swanson: A Living Wage Revolution
Monday, 24 April 2006, 1:56 pm | David Swanson
April 22, 2006 -- The first sentence of the top article in the only daily newspaper in Charlottesville, Virginia, today contains a remarkable analysis of the living wage movement: "The president of the University of Virginia on Friday acknowledged ... More >>
