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The Industrial Services Complex Formerly Known as the Military

By David Swanson

“Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers,” by far the best film Robert Greenwald has created, is not about the military industrial complex. Rather, it is about the remaining shell of the former military, having embedded within itself not just the media, but numerous other corporate entities. The U.S. military no longer cooks its own food, washes its own laundry, repairs its own vehicles, or guards its own V.I.P.s. We’ve privatized everything, right down to the shooting read more

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Taking Stands

By David Swanson

Recently someone Emailed me a brief policy statement on four major issues. They’d received it from a political activist group, they said, and were passing it along with praise. I think it’s worth commenting on, because the positions are those many progressive groups take, but – far from being “stands” on the issues, as my correspondent described them, they are closer to being methods of rolling over.

Here’s the first:

“The War in Iraq
“We read more

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TRANSCRIPT: Interview With Tony Trupiano

Trupiano is the Democratic nominee in Michigan’s 11th District. The audio of this interview is here: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/14658

David Swanson: Tony Trupiano, it’s great to talk to you; so how does campaigning compare to working on the radio?

Tony Trupiano: There is no comparison. As you and I are talking, we are 22 days out of the election. David, I can honestly tell you I am not the same person today that I was when I sought your advice and counsel some 14 months read more

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Bush as Brat: Pretensions to Empire

By David Swanson

Lewis Lapham, essayist extraordinaire and editor of Harper’s magazine, asked Congressman John Conyers what he thought the point was of publishing a lengthy report laying out evidence of Bush’s impeachable offenses. Conyers’ response was: “to take away the excuse that we didn’t know.”

But Lapham still wanted to know what the hurry was: why not wait until the Democrats had a large majority, or more investigations were done, or the public demanded read more

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Impeachment Event Planned in Southern New Jersey

Screening of “Iraq for Sale” followed by remarks and discussion of the war and impeachment with David Swanson, Co-Founder of AfterDowningStreet.org, Board Member of Progressive Democrats of America

WHEN: Sunday, October 22, 2006, 2:00 PM – 4:30 PM

WHERE:Voorhees – M. Allan Vogelson Regional Branch Library
3rd Floor Meeting Room
203 Laurel Road
Voorhees, New Jersey 8043

Seating Capacity : 75-100

RSVP:
http://iraqforsale.bravenewtheaters.com/screening/show/6223

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Audio: Interview With Congressional Candidate Tony Trupiano

By David Swanson

Here’s a 30-minute mp3 file of an interview I recorded earlier today with Tony Trupiano, the former national radio host who is now the Democratic nominee to throw Bush-follower Thaddeus McCotter out of his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives where he fails to represent Michigan’s 11th District. While I support Trupiano and encourage others to do so, in this interview I ask him about positions read more

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A Blue District Gone Red, Coming Back

By David Swanson

If you live in a solidly red (Republican) or blue (Democratic) district, then the Fifth Congressional District of Virginia might strike you as a moderate area being contested by two moderate candidates. The historically Democratic district, which continues to vote for Democratic state governors, switched when its current congressman, Virgil Goode, left the Democratic Party in 2000 to join the party he usually voted with anyway. But Goode does not always vote like a Republican. read more

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Did They Fool You on Iraq? Are You Ready for Iran?

By David Swanson

A majority of Americans supported attacking Iraq, but now a majority of Americans say it was the wrong thing to do and that they were lied to. If you are among those who supported the attack on Iraq but now believe you were mistaken, then you have one step up on our president – he’s never publicly admitted a mistake in his life. In fact, he once demonstrated the difficulty he has in even imagining being wrong by unsuccessfully attempting to recite the following wise saying: read more

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