Rep. Virgil Goode Gives His Opponent a Beard and Dark Skin on Top of Lying About His Positions
How to Put the Torturers in Prison
By David Swanson
U.S. politics has become something previously only found in science fiction, an intersection of parallel universes. One universe is the one on television and in Congress. In this universe there are suspicions that someone in the U.S. military may have used some technique bordering on torture, but there’s just no way to know for sure. Perhaps an investigation would be a good idea. Or maybe a better solution would be to elect a new president, especially one who’s
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Foreign Policy Debate All About War
By David Swanson
There was only one foreign policy asked about in Friday night’s foreign policy debate: war and potential wars.
Obama began the debate by allowing McCain to get away with claiming the mantle of “accountability” on the issue of a bailout that rewards fraud in financial markets. Why? Because Obama won’t oppose the bailout.
Then he let McCain get away with complaining about a huge increase in the size of government, without pointing out that the larger “size”
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Rep. Baldwin Introduces Bill to Undo and Prosecute Bush-Cheney Crimes
Rep. Baldwin Introduces Bill to Undo and Prosecute Bush-Cheney Crimes
Baldwin Calls for Executive Accountability To Reverse Illegal Actions and Prevent Further Abuses
Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin has introduced the Executive Branch Accountability Act of 2008, calling on the next President to reverse the damaging and illegal actions taken by the Bush/Cheney Administration and to collaborate with Congress to proactively prevent any further abuses of executive branch power.
“Over the past several years,
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The Price of Right
By David Swanson
I just read an interesting new book by Alicia Morgan called “The Price of Right: How the Conservative Agenda Has Failed America (and Always Will)” — a timely message right now, but let’s hope it does not remain so always.
If you read a lot of progressive political books, this one may seem a bit repetitive. Chapter One retells a Thom Hartmann theory about liberals as hunters and conservatives as farmers. Chapter Two is the early development of advertising
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McCain Tonight
By David Swanson
Prior to tonight’s debate and each time during it that John McCain brags about his torture victimhood (or Jim Lehrer does it for him) or any of the participants touch on the topic of torture in any way without mentioning the facts below, please send Mr. Lehrer a note at onlineda@newshour.org along these lines.
Dear Jim Lehrer,
Are you aware of the following history?
In February 2008, John McCain voted against a bill that would supposedly have banned torture, and then applauded
Calming the Fearful Mind
By David Swanson
Thich Nhat Hanh, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk who in 1964 was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Martin Luther King, Jr., has published a new book of advice to Americans and to U.S. Congress members called “Calming the Fearful Mind: A Zen Response to Terrorism.”
Hanh’s words of wisdom strike me as potentially of great value for a variety of types of conflict resolution, but of somewhat limited — if still significant — value for Congress or for U.S.
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Blood, Sweat, and Bailouts
By David Swanson
Excerpted from remarks at an Augusta Coalition for Peace and Justice event at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia, September 23, 2008.
Have you heard the latest news? John McCain is now in favor of regulating Wall Street. But, of course, local son Woodrow Wilson was reelected as a peace candidate. And candidate George W. Bush was opposed to nation building. Now he’s borrowing money from China to build a nation in Iraq and another one here in the United States, except
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Speak With President of Veterans for Peace Who Occupied National Archives
Tonight, Wednesday, September 24th, you can speak live on the radio or submit your questions through an online chat room for Elliott Adams, the president of Veterans for Peace and one of five veterans who yesterday climbed a 9-foot fence and occupied a 35-foot high ledge to raise a 22×8 foot banner stating, “DEFEND OUR CONSTITUTION. ARREST BUSH AND CHENEY: WAR CRIMINALS!”
Adams was also the only spokesman for any grassroots organization who testified at the six-hour non-impeachment impeachment
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