Dahr Jamail and David Swanson on Talk Nation Radio With Dori Smith
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September 2008
McCain, Torture Supporter
1788 United states ratifies Constitution, ordaining that all treaties made under the authority of the United States shall be the supreme law of the land
1791 United States ratifies the Bill of Rights, banning cruel and unusual punishment.
1948 United States ratifies the Universal Declaration of Human Rights banning torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
1949 United States ratifies Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, banning violence to life and
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Dershowitz Says Leave Poor Bush and Cheney Alone
By David Swanson
Here’s an interesting self-defense with a gloss of principle and detatchment.
Indictments Are Not The Best Revenge
By ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ, Wall Street Journal
September 12, 2008
Dershowitz or whoever wrote the headline begins with the pretense that wanting to deter future crimes is not the motivation of those of us pushing for the prosecution of Bush and Cheney, that we simply must be as primitive and barbaric as the author and be seeking revenge — partisan revenge to
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Xmas Letter to Obama: How You Could Have Won
By David Swanson
I’m sending this early, Senator, because of my confidence that you won’t open it until Christmas and my concern that when you do you’ll say I should have spoken up sooner.
The four main things you did wrong are related to vote counting, media, policy, and your job in the U.S. Senate. If you had done them right you could have worn a flag pin, not worn a flag pin, pierced the thing through your nose, or told Wolf Blitzer to stick it up his ass. Regardless, you
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People Don't Make Stupid Voters, the Media Does
By David Swanson
George Lakoff has one of the louder voices in the chorus arguing that elections must be won on personality and fluff rather than policy positions. One problem with this advice is that if, at the end of it, you win an election, you won’t know what you’ve won. You won’t know whether the people you elected will do anything you want done unless they’ve told you their policy positions as well
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My Representative, Virgil Goode, Is the Leading Racist Bigot in Washington
By David Swanson
In defense of that claim, I offer this latest evidence.
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Ann Wright and Emma's Revolution in Cville on September 22nd
Ann Wright will speak and Emma’s Revolution will play in an event beginning at 7 p.m., Monday, Sept. 22, 2008, at the Albemarle County Office Building, 401 McIntire Rd., Charlottesville, Va. The event is free and sponsored by the Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice, which operates on your generous DONATIONS.
Ann Wright is a retired U.S.
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Imagine There's No Heaven
By David Swanson
Article VI. of the U.S. Constitution says that “no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”
The writers of the Constitution knew the recent history of wars of religion and religious persecution in Europe. Many of the thinkers who influenced them associated political freedom very closely with freedom of religion, with the dismantling of state religion, and — in some cases — with the abandonment
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Why We're Planning to Prosecute Cheney and Bush
By David Swanson
Next weekend in Andover, Mass., a group of attorneys, academics, and activists will gather to plan the prosecution of Dick Cheney, George Bush, and the lawyers and advisors who, together with them, are responsible for war crimes. The conference is open to the public and expected to be well attended: http://war-crimes.info
I can’t speak for everyone involved, but I can tell you why I’ll be there. If I thought we could deter future presidents and vice presidents from
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Join Us in Andover, Mass., to Plan Prosecution of Bush, Cheney, et alia
AGENDA FOR THE “JUSTICE ROBERT H. JACKSON CONFERENCE”: PLANNING FOR THE PROSECUTION OF HIGH LEVEL AMERICAN WAR CRIMINALS
September 13 – 14, 2008
Andover, Massachusetts
Registration details available at:
http://war-crimes.info
“The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power and make deliberate and concerted use of it to set in motion evils which leave no home in
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