Denver, Col., Rallies for Impeachment
Mike Miles:
John Nichols Part 1:
John Nichols Part 2:
David Swanson:
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December 2007
Bush Defines Himself as Threat to World
By David Swanson
In the face of a new NIE that shatters his and Cheney’s lies about Iranian nukes, Bush is now claiming that just knowing how to make a bomb is a danger to the world that could justify an illegal war and even the USE of the bomb. This insanity fits perfectly with the bill now making its way through the Senate that would make the promotion of belief systems that could lead to “violence
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Enough Heroes to Fill a Book
By David Swanson
“A very few serve the state with their consciences, and so necessarily resist it.” -Henry David Thoreau
“We should never forget that everything Adolph Hitler did in Germany was legal and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was illegal.” -Martin Luther King Jr.
“A real cynic isn’t going to blow the whistle. And a real radical probably won’t be in a position to do it. It takes someone who believes in the system far more
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Kucinich on What He'd Do
If you were elected president, what do you think would be the first thing you would do in office?
Cancel NAFTA, get out of the WTO. Bring our troops home. Reintroduce legislation for a not-for-profit health care system and for fully paid two- and four-year college for every American young person. Put in motion legislation to create a full employment economy. I want to create jobs, that’s what I want to do. I want to get people back to work and get them in health care, make sure their children
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The Two Biggest Public Secrets, and How Bush Just Signing Statemented Iraq
By David Swanson
As noted by the uniquely vigilant Charlie Savage in the Boston Globe, President Bush in November issued a signing statement unconstitutionally overturning 10 sections of H.R. 3222, the "Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2008." Among the little technical details Bush just erased was the requirement that he not take funds appropriated to the Pentagon for one thing and use them for something else.
So, for example, were Congress to stop passing bills to fund the
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