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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

By David Swanson

Several Democratic House candidates have backed what they call the “Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq”: http://www.responsibleplan.com

The downside of this, as I see it, is as follows:

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By Seth Rosen, srosen@dailyprogress.com
Charlottesville VA Daily Progress

Last week David Swanson tried to “stop-loss” Congress.

Swanson, a Charlottesville resident who has become a nationally prominent antiwar activist, delivered “orders” to senators and representatives to remain at their posts and not return to their home districts for Easter recess until American troops are removed from Iraq.

Later in the week when Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice testified before the read more

Please join me, and call in with your questions Monday evening, March 17, 2008, 8:00 – 9:00 p.m. ET. My guest will be retired General and former Director of the National Security Agency William Odom. We’ll be discussing the occupation of Iraq, now entering its sixth year, and other abuses of power including warantless wiretapping. Listen in at http://www.thepeoplespeakradio.net

Phone in with your questions toll-free from the U.S. and Canada at 888-228-4494, and from the rest of the read more

John Perry reading words of David Swanson.

New Poll: 12 Year Olds Know Congress Could Cut War Money, Adults Believe Congress Powerless to End Iraq Occupation
By David Swanson

A pair of new polls may suggest the power of falsehoods repeated ad infinitum on our televisions and in our newspapers. The first poll asked 2,000 American 12 year olds whether Congress has the power to end the occupation of Iraq. Minorities believed Congress did not, or believed it could do so if the Democrats had larger majorities. But a 61 percent majority of those read more