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Mark Crispin Miller Live Online Tonight and Taking Your Questions

Tonight from 8 – 9 p.m. ET I’ll be interviewing Mark Crispin Miller and he’ll be taking your questions at http://www.thepeoplespeakradio.net

Mark Crispin Miller is professor of media studies at New York University and the author of the book: Fooled Again, How the Right Stole the 2004 Elections. He is known for his writing on American media and for his activism on behalf of democratic media reform. His books include Boxed In: The Culture of TV, Seeing Through Movies, and Mad Scientists, read more

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4,000 Deaths, 435 Town Halls

We just passed another tragic milestone with the 4,000th death of U.S. soldiers in Iraq, while the uncounted death toll of innocent Iraqis climbs beyond 1 million.

Yet in April, Congress will vote to give George Bush another $102 billion blank check for Iraq on top of past blank checks for $562 billion – unless we finally persuade our Representatives to Just Say No .

One great way to persuade a Representative is to hold a Town Hall Meeting and fill the hall with people who care and are willing read more

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Healthcare or Warfare, Time to Choose

By David Swanson

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world is, by no coincidence, also the wealthiest nation in the world that does not provide its people with health coverage. About one in six Americans has no health coverage at all, and another two or three out of those six lack adequate coverage even though they pay more than enough to receive it and to provide it to those who lack it as well.

Millions of Americans, consequently, lack preventive health care, are deeply in debt for the expenses read more

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Building a Movement to End the Occupation of Iraq

Remarks at American University Teach-In on March 22, 2008
By David Swanson

Robert Dreyfuss’s presentation that I now have to follow was tremendous and I learned a lot, but I disagree with his pessimism. I am fond of the saying “Let’s save our pessimism for better times.” It’s a choice to be a pessimist, and it is a wrong one, always.

So, here we are again, a crowd dominated by old white people on a college campus in a black city. But on March 12th and 19th in this read more

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TELL YOUR SENATOR TO FILIBUSTER ANY BILL THAT FUNDS THE OCCUPATION OF IRAQ

By the Granny Peace Brigade

That’s what we’ve been asking people to say at our Phone-A-Thons recently. It’s not easy. We stand on a busy sidewalk and ask passersby to call Congress on the spot using our cell phones. (You can find a Phone-A-Thon recipe here.) The amazing thing is that some people actually do stop and make the call. A few of us have gotten hooked on this grassroots action because of these lovely, shy, first-time callers.

There was the man who had just become a citizen and was read more

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Iran Mobile Launches Bush Bomb to Prevent Attack on Iran

By David Swanson

The TrueMajority.org “IranMobile”, a Dr. Strangelovian thermonuclear missle/bomb that rises for launch 20 feet in the air with George W. Bush astride, came to Charlottesville, Va., as part of the http://www.NotAnotherWar.org campaign to stop an impending war on Iran. Lights, smoke, music, audio were part of the presentation. Members of the Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice collected petition signatures and handed read more

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No War – No Warming – Blocking Streets at the American Petroleum Institute (VIDEO)

By David Swanson

The videos below show exactly how much fun it can be to interrupt the day of war profiteering oil barrons and educate the public about an occupation that we said six years ago would be blood for oil and that we say now is blood for oil.

This tongue-in-cheek press advisory preceded Wednesday’s action in front of the American Petroleum Institute in Washington, D.C.:

American Petroleum Institute To Grant Congress Permission to Stop Funding Iraq War and Occupation

The activist group read more

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