Dennis Kucinich: Thanks to You Impeachment Will Be Heard on Friday
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American Samaritans
By David Swanson
There are probably three things necessary if the United States government is to better provide for the American people: First, expose as baseless and harmful the pseudoscientific theories that claim to show that helping people actually hurts them, that charity is cruelty, that a higher minimum wage hurts workers, that health coverage leads to poor habits and health, that altruism doesn’t “really” exist and therefore should not be engaged in, etc. Second, recount
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Guess Who's Coming to the Impeachment
How They’ll Try to Bury Impeachment and Fail
By David Swanson
In response to public demand for impeachment hearings and pressure from Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Congressman Robert Wexler, and others, as well as electoral challenges by pro-impeachment candidates, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi finally caved and proposed to allow Kucinich to present impeachment in a Judiciary Committee hearing.
The hearing was then scheduled for a Friday (July 25) and scheduled to last a full two-hours (10 a.m.
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English Translation of a John Conyers Press Release
By David Swanson
Below is the original text of a July 17, 2008, media advisory from House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers in the original Pelosiconi, followed by the English in all caps.
Conyers Announces Hearing on Bush Imperial Presidency
CONYERS ANNOUNCES BRIEF DISMISSIVE TWO-HOUR REVIEW OF SEVEN AND A HALF YEARS OF SUCH BLATANT AND DICTATORIAL CRIMINALITY THAT HE IS CONSTRAINED TO NAME IT WITH AN OXYMORON TO AVOID USING THE WORD “IMPEACHMENT”
(Washington)—Today House Judiciary
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A Brief Chronology of the Bush-Cheney Impeachment Movement
June 2005 – Ranking minority member John Conyers holds unofficial hearing without subpoena power and is not taken seriously.
December 2005 – Conyers proposes the creation of a special committee to investigate impeachment.
May 2006 – The Republican National Committee baselessly claims talk of impeachment will benefit Republicans, Nancy Pelosi promises never to impeach.
August 2006 – Conyers publishes a lengthy report in which the Judiciary Committee minority staff documents
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AP's Problem Is Not What It Thinks
By David Swanson
There’s been a lot of public discussion of late of the Associated Press’s Washington Bureau Chief Ron Fournier’s changes in style rules. Out with “just the facts,” in with opinion and perspective. Or so the story goes. The changes that are afoot at the AP appear to be part of a broader trend, influenced – in part – by the internet, the medium itself and the competition from bloggers. Of the two biggest problems I see in American journalism,
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This Friday and Monday in Charlottesville, Va. Oppose an Attack on Iran
Join Us on Friday July 18 and Monday July 21 to Oppose an Attack on Iran
STREET THEATER AND PETITIONING
Friday, July 18th, 2008
6 p.m. on at the Freedom of Expression Wall on the Downtown Mall
This Friday evening, visitors to Charlottesville, Virginia’s Downtown Mall during the free Fridays After Five concert will see giant puppets on stilts, posters and banners, hundreds of people wearing free “Don’t Attack Iran” stickers, and dozens of people collecting signatures on a
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Speak With Elizabeth Kucinich Live Online Tonight
International Human Rights and Environmental Advocate
Showtime: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 – 8:00pm-9:00pm Eastern
Go to http://www.thepeoplespeakradio.net/listen-live to listen live.
You’ll find instructions there to enter a paltalk chat room where you can post questions.
You can also phone in and ask your questions on the air. Call in tollfree from anywhere in the United States or Canada at 888-228-4494 or anywhere else in the world at 877-489-6350.
Following the show, the audio file will
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Does Virgil Goode Want War With Iran?
By David Swanson
Six years ago Congressman Virgil Goode helped to frighten and defraud the nation into a disastrous war in Iraq that has gotten worse each year since then, with no light at the end of the tunnel. Now Goode is helping to push similar scary stories about Iran in an effort that appears aimed at dragging us into another war, and nobody has asked him about it.
Goode is a cosponsor of a resolution in Congress called H Con Res 362, the lengthy title of which expresses fear of “Iran’s
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