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Speak With Elizabeth de la Vega Live Online Tonight

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Best Selling Author and Award-Winning Federal Prosecutor

Showtime: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 – 8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Eastern.

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American Samaritans

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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 read more

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Guess Who's Coming to the Impeachment

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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. read more

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A Brief Chronology of the Bush-Cheney Impeachment Movement

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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 read more

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English Translation of a John Conyers Press Release

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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”

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