By David Swanson
Yes, bases have replaced taxes as one of life’s two certainties. For plenty of corporations and even privileged individuals in the United States and elsewhere, taxes are no more. But U.S. military bases are everywhere. And you can call them enduring. You can call them lasting. You can call them substantial. You can even call them humanitarian aid missions. But the damn things are permanent, and there aren’t too many corners of the globe in which you can hide
By David Swanson
This show was previously scheduled and postponed. Tonight it’s on for real. Listen and phone in!
Tonight, June 12th, from 7-8 p.m. ET, I’ll have the pleasure of interviewing, with your help, Vincent Bugliosi, author of “The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder.” Let’s figure out how to do this together. Go to: http://thepeoplespeakradio.net to learn more. Go to
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By David Swanson
An editorial cartoon in newspapers today shows a Democratic donkey shouting before the war that it’s just about cheap oil, and complaining now that there’s no cheap oil. So, donkeys are stupid. Q.E.D.
Or, could it be that the positions prior to and during the war, of various groups have been as follows:
Peace activists and Dennis Kucinich: The war is for control of the oil, plus profits for oil companies, as well as permanent bases, profit from “reconstruction,”
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By David Swanson
In the back of your head have you ever thought that abandoning an American city and nearby towns to a predictable and predicted natural disaster, and then refusing to repair the damage, ought to be considered unacceptable behavior. On a grander scale, does it strike you that there is something seriously wrong with the Bush Administration’s failure, not just to acknowledge global warming, but to take significant action to stop increasing it and begin reducing it? If we destroy
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By David Swanson
The House is stalling, but don’t be fooled. Don’t let your guard down. Don’t relax. They still intend, possibly next week, to dump the hard earned pay of your as yet unborn descendants into funding another full year or more of occupying Iraq, paying for the occupation well into the next Congress and presidency, plus enough in interest payments to China that we could have, with the same amount of money, provided clean water and basic nutrition to everyone on
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By David Swanson
Responses to the exposure of corporate media military “experts” being secretly told what to say by the Pentagon have ranged from yawns to shouts to ass-scratching. On Wednesday, the Center for Media and Democracy ( http://www.prwatch.org ) published this comment:
“As Paul Schmelzer wrote on the Minnesota Independent website, ‘There were two National Conferences on Media Reform in Minneapolis over the weekend: the one I attended and the one Bill O’Reilly,
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By David Swanson
Ooops. Scratch that. It was not a local official. No need to get excited. No need to end the practice or hold the criminal accountable. No need to mention the scandal in news reports. It’s actually President George W. Bush. There’s nothing to see here. Move along. Shop. Eat. Vote. Sleep. Perish.
Or take seriously the following article of impeachment introduced on Monday evening by Congressman Dennis Kucinich:
Article XX
IMPRISONING CHILDREN
In his conduct
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By David Swanson
Chairman John Conyers’ reasons not to impeach Bush or Cheney do not even include an assertion that they have not committed impeachable offenses or crimes. How could they, when Conyers is selling a book listing many of Bush and Cheney’s impeachable offenses and crimes? Conyers’ reasons do not include an assertion that he can end the ongoing crimes through some other approach. And they do not include any claim that a successful impeachment wouldn’t end
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By David Swanson
Once upon a time, the United States House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary passed the following article of impeachment (one of three) against President Richard M. Nixon:
“In his conduct of the office of President of the United States, Richard M. Nixon, contrary to his oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his
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