By David Swanson
Tonight, May 20th, from 8-9 p.m. ET, I’ll have the pleasure of interviewing, with your help, Board Member of Iraq Veterans Against the War Jason Lemieux. Go to: http://thepeoplespeakradio.net to learn more. Go to http://www.thepeoplespeakradio.net/listen-live to listen live.
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By David Swanson
Georgia’s 13th District consists of the western and southern suburbs and exurbs of Atlanta, and it is currently misrepresented by David Scott, a Democrat and a member of the Congressional Black Caucus who opposes impeaching Bush or Cheney and just voted Yes in the House’s failed attempt to put our grandchildren into debt for another $165 billion for occupying Iraq.
Georgia State Senator Donzella James is challenging Scott in the July 15th Primary. Her campaign tells
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By David Swanson
As an alumnus of the University of Virginia, I receive its magazine in the mail, a magazine that always makes me question how I can have received as good an education at UVA as I think I did, when the people who produce this magazine seem not to have received the same. The Summer 2008 issue contains an article called “Stories from Iraq”, which contains not a single story of a single Iraqi, coincidentally
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Sheehan to speak at Omni
By Erika Howsare, Cville Weekly
Peace activist Cindy Sheehan will speak in Charlottesville on May 22. She was in town almost exactly two years ago, speaking against the war in Iraq and about the death of her son there, and stopped here again last July for a rally in support of the impeachment of George Bush and Dick Cheney.
At that last appearance, Sheehan was talking about running for Congress in California’s Eighth District if the incumbent there, House Speaker Nancy
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By David Swanson
Former Republican Rhode Island Senator Lincoln Chafee on Tuesday evening called George W. Bush the worst president in U.S. history and the occupation of Iraq the worst foreign tragedy in U.S. history. Chafee said Bush deserved to be impeached.
Chafee served in the U.S. Senate from 1999 to 2006 and credits his defeat in 2006 – as do most analysts – to his membership in the party of Bush and Cheney. In 2003 Chafee was the only Republican senator to vote against authorization
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By David Swanson
Wild Wonderful West Virginia may, when the last vote is counted (or tossed out) give Senator Clinton 18 pledged delegates and Senator Obama 10. It’ll be pretty close to that, and if that’s the final count, then the new totals will be Obama 1,602 and Clinton 1,440. There are 189 delegates left to be pledged. Of those, Clinton must win 176 of them, or 93 percent, in order to beat Obama. Obama, on the other hand, only needs to win 14 more delegates for the whole charade
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By David Swanson
That’s the title of a new book by Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky. It’s actually just a collection of the familiar quotes by Bush, Cheney, and gang, plus Democrats, plus pundits, all lying about Iraq before and during the occupation. It’s mostly not a funny collection, but it’s sort-of packaged as one and it’s probably funnier than that truly dumb “The Young Dick Cheney” book that Alternet has promoted in a few hundred Emails. But
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By Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.)
Cindy Sheehan, a peace activist and candidate for Congress in California’s 8th District, will speak at the Omni Charlottesville Hotel on May 22.
The event will last from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Preston Room. Tickets will be available at the door and cost $10 for students; $20 for general admission; $50 for admission and a photo with Sheehan; and $100 for admission, a photo with Sheehan and priority seating. Free parking will be available at the Omni for people
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By David Swanson
Rep. Robert Wexler (Dem., Florida) has written a book, soon to be released, that is as different from most congress members’ books as Wexler is from most congress members. He’s titled it “Fire-Breathing Liberal: How I Learned to Survive (and Thrive) in the Contact Sport of Congress.” Wexler is depicted on the cover with the Capitol in the background and his fists in the air.
Wexler is a fighter and a liberal, and – yes – one CAN be both.
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