Ask Obama to Prosecute and End the Imperial Presidency
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Obama's Open Forum Opens Possibilities
By David Swanson
Candidate Obama asked for our opinions through a website. Our top demand was that he keep his promise to vote against immunity for telecoms that spied illegally. He ignored us, promised to do better as president, and hasn’t.
President-Elect Obama asked for our opinions through his transition website. Our top question was whether he would appoint a special prosecutor for Bush, Cheney, and gang. He refused to answer the question until asked by the corporate media, and then
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The 45th President
By David Swanson
The United States has had 44 presidents and nobody knows who the 45th will be. For the sake of argument let’s imagine for a minute something that is a very definite possibility. Let’s imagine that the 45th president will belong to a political party you detest, will espouse the opposite position from yours on matters dear to your heart, and will strike you as completely unlikeable, untrustworthy, irresponsible, and dangerous. Let’s imagine that #45 will want to
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Fantasy Finance and Real Fixes
By David Swanson
If you’re like me you find it at least a bit disturbing that we’re giving trillions of dollars to save the economy to the very people who wrecked it, and more disturbing that we’re doing so without any solid basis for expecting to get much of it back and without making fundamental changes to prevent a repetition. But if you’re like me, you also aren’t 100 percent certain how a credit default swap works with a cubed collateralized debt obligation,
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The Cheney Channel
By David Swanson
An association representing top advertisers on broadcast and cable television has proposed the creation of a new Cheney Channel dedicated exclusively to the Cheney family, the primary motivation apparently being to get Dick and Liz off all the other channels where their presence seems to be hurting the sales of advertised products.
OK, not really, but it wouldn’t surprise me. One of the products that Liz Cheney seems to be hurting is in fact Dick. Ray McGovern just pointed
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Does Cheney Make Obama Look Good Enough?
By David Swanson
Dick Cheney could make anyone look decent, honorable, and law-abiding by comparison. But is the existence of someone worse, no matter how many hours our media monopoly gives him, enough to make Obama’s decisions acceptable? Let’s look at their pair of speeches given on Thursday in Washington, D.C., and depicted as a debate by the media.
President Obama began speaking at 10:28 a.m., 18 minutes late, and spoke until 35 minutes after Cheney’s scheduled start, but
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Priorities
By David Swanson
Is it important to counter the CIA’s lies about what it told a handful of congress members when? Of course it is. It’s important to expose every bit of the secrecy imposed by all agencies and departments of what we still rather goofily call the “executive” branch. This is a branch of government that has openly flouted subpoenas for years, and assisted others in doing so. The chairman of the senate judiciary committee is now afraid to subpoena Jay Bybee,
Too Slow Zelikow: UVA Backs Torture
By David Swanson
If I could feel more shame over my country’s torture it would be over my university’s support for torture. The University of Virginia, which has long paid its employees poverty wages while increasingly becoming a major partner of the U.S. military and its “intelligence” operations, nonetheless still holds for me an image of individual honor and principle. I still imagine that UVA students and professors, staff and alumni, can be expected not to stoop to
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