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Tonight: Warm Up for the Debate Without Watching the Pundits

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Some artists defy classification. Detroit’s revolutionary soul man and citizen activist, Nadir, rebels against it.

His solo debut Distorted Soul 2.0 was crowned “Best Funk Album of the Year” by Soul-Patrol.com and earned a Detroit Music Award for “Outstanding Urban Funk/Hip-Hop Recording”, after international spins on Urban A/C, Rock, Urban Contemporary and even Smooth Jazz radio.

Slave: The Remixtape, which offers fourteen very different remixes of Nadir’s award-winning composition read more

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New Book: The 35 Articles of Impeachment and the Case for Prosecuting George W. Bush

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By Congressman Dennis Kucinich
With Additional Material by David Swanson and Elizabeth de la Vega
trade paperback edition • 156 pages • 5.5 x 8.5 • ISBN: 978-1-932595-42-0 • $12
Price: $12
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Feral House offers this important and urgent publication of Dennis Kucinich’s Articles of Impeachment this election season in two formats: an offset-printed paperback book available for the cost of $12 and a free downloadable PDF available below.

David Swanson’s additional article explains read more

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Democracy Now Follows Up on NSA's Illegal Spying and War Crimes

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By David Swanson

Democracy Now! today not only admitted that I had broken the story but followed up on the story of illegal NSA spying, including the evidence of war crimes.

Link to original.

James Bamford: “The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America.”

The Bush administration’s wiretapping program has come under new scrutiny this week. Two influential congressional committees have opened probes into allegations US intelligence spied on the phone calls read more

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Lies, Damn Lies, and Polls

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By David Swanson

David W. Moore, who worked for Gallup for 13 years as managing editor and senior editor of the Gallup Poll, has a new book out denouncing most polls by Gallup or anyone else as useless, and explaining that this became obvious to him when he first began work at Gallup, raising the obvious question of why he stuck around for 13 years. The explanation seems to be that he was trying to fix the problem, and one of the motivations for the book seems to be that he believes he still can read more

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Media Criticism of Hate Speech Is Long Overdue

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By David Swanson

I get the impression that a great many people are upset by all the news about McCain-Palin supporters who believe Obama is an Arab, a Muslim, a terrorist, and a baby killer. I find it the most encouraging thing that’s happened in eight years.

Why? Because these sorts of lies and fear-mongering are nothing new. What’s new is that the U.S. corporate media is covering them. The most unaccountable, antidemocratic communications cartel outside of China has decided to read more

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When the Corporate Media Apologizes

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By David Swanson

Of the hundreds of corporate and independent media outlets that falsely claimed this week that ABC News had broken a story about NSA spying that I broke at AfterDowningStreet over a year ago, only the guys at McClatchy (formerly Knight Ridder, the same people who have done better reporting on Iraq than any other corporate journalists) have had the decency to put out a correction, and only the Sacramento Bee has posted (though probably not printed) it:

“A McClatchy Newspapers read more

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Chicago ACORN Is Braver and Better Than McCain

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By David Swanson

The McCain-Palin campaign is running an advertisement “accusing ” Barack Obama of once training ACORN members in Chicago. Obama should be proud of that. I’ve done it myself and am proud of it. I trained Chicago ACORN members in how to talk to the media about the wonderful work they do.

What sort of work? Chicago ACORN has worked to improve local schools, reducing class sizes, providing teachers with mentors and assistants. Chicago ACORN has worked to prevent read more

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That's Religulous

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By David Swanson

According to an Associated Press story on Friday, more than a half-million people have toured the creationism museum in Kentucky since it opened in May 2007. However, at least one of those people was there to make fun of it with a video camera.

In fact, a lot of what Bill Maher’s new film, “Religulous”, does is make fun of people. But by no means does Maher single out fringe religious believers. He interviews one of the few top scientists in the world who read more

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Does Justin Rood Hate Bloggers?

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By David Swanson

I think that’s a fair question. When Rood worked for TPMMuckraker he complained to CBS News about the life of a blogger.

When he got hired by the Disney Corporation (ABC News) he begin tackling such tasks as burying a story of war lies and war crimes in order to blog about phone sex.

Now he’s added a followup to the original story that still fails to note that I blogged the full story over a year ago, and still fails to tell most of the story.

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