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Boston This Saturday
Boston, Massachusetts
Saturday
February 27, 2010
David Swanson will discuss and sign copies of his new book “Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union.”
7 p.m. at Harvard COOP.
The Harvard Coop Bookstore
1400 Massachusetts Avenue
18 Palmer Street
Cambridge, MA 02238
Store telephone: (617)499-2000
CONTACT THE ORGANIZERS:
Melida Arredondo
melida_arredondo at yahoo dot com
Elizabeth Ellis
ellisliza at hotmail dot com
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Why Leahy Is Afraid to Subpoena Yoo
By David Swanson
We’re about to witness the pretense of war lawyer hearings without the war lawyers (commonly known as torture lawyers by those willing to ignore their role in “legalizing” aggressive war). This may highlight for many observers the little-known fact that Congress no longer has the power of subpoena.
During 2007-2008 Democratic congressional committees subpoenaed dozens of Bush officials, who simply refused to comply. Although any committee has the undisputed power
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Radio Today
I’ll be on with Lila Garrett on KPFK this morning and on today’s Urban Journal with Keith Murphy. Listen up!
This Week in St. Louis, Chicago, and Boston
David Swanson speaking about his new book “Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union.”
https://davidswanson.org/book
St. Louis, MO
February 22, 2010
7 p.m. at
Left Bank Books
399 North Euclid at McPherson in the Central West End
St. Louis, MO 63108
Sponsored by:
Veterans for Peace
CONTACT THE ORGANIZER:
Charles Smith
vfpch61@riseup.net
Chicago, IL
February 23, 2010
7 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Northwestern University, the Evanston Campus
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Yoo, Bybee, and Disinformation
By David Swanson
Everything you’re reading about torture lawyers John Yoo and Jay Bybee getting off the hook is wrong. They are not torture lawyers, they are not off the hook, there never was any hook, they may not be lawyers for long, impeachment and indictment are on the agenda, and you have a role to play.
Calling these men “torture lawyers” is dramatically dumber than labeling Al Capone a tax cheat. These are people who provided “legal” cover for aggressive wars,
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Top 50 New Names for War on Iraq
By David Swanson
On Friday afternoon, I posted the following announcment online:
CONTEST: Obama Calls War on Iraq “A New Dawn” — What Do You Call It? (Limit 8 Words)
I’ll start the entries:
Operation Funnel Unlimited Cash to Killing (OFUCK)
The winner will be announced on an aircraft carrier with a banner! Plus job offer possible for video editing work to insert “rename” in place of “end” in campaign speeches.
Winner gets signed copy of Daybreak,
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Three-Percentism – or – What's the Matter With Palm Beach?
By David Swanson
What the liberal activist world is doing for healthcare bears a striking similarity to what Christianists do for billionaires. Supporting tax breaks for the richest three-percent of Americans because you hate gay people or women or blacks or sex does not at first look much like supporting a “public option” for three percent of the poorest of Americans.
But both shape national policy around a supposedly national program that in reality will benefit only some small
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Lawsuit: Obama Hurting Sales of My Book "Daybreak" By Naming an Illegal War "New Dawn"
By David Swanson
I don’t think I have any choice but to help stimulate the economy by hiring a lawyer.
Whoever owns George Orwell’s estate better jump on this as well.
Iraq War To Be Rebranded ‘Operation New Dawn’
By Agence France-Presse
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s administration plans to rebrand its military operation in Iraq “Operation New Dawn,” beginning September 1, a Pentagon memorandum shows.
The memo, signed by US Defense Secretary Robert
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The CA Dem Party: What Is It Good for?
By David Swanson
I’ve followed the struggles of progressives within the California Democratic Party from the opposite coast and admired their achievements but wondered about their limitations. They’re the first to pass resolutions opposing wars, but for the most part their members in Congress vote to fund the wars just the same. I’d rather have a party that “supported” wars but didn’t fund them, if that option were available. I’d rather have a brand
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Obama Spokesman Criminally Threatens War on Iran
By David Swanson
I recently blogged on the conclusive evidence that Dick Cheney has committed felonies. In response bewildered Americans asked why he wasn’t being prosecuted or investigated.
But the reasons are public knowledge: Obama is continuing the crimes. Obama controls the Department of Justice. Obama controls the Congress.
If I had been paying attention, I would have noted that the day before I posted that blog Obama’s press secretary committed one of the crimes of which
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Pre-Partisan America, 1789-1801
By David Swanson
I’m not a big fan of post-partisan America, a notion that seems to amount to running the government through two political parties but taking care that one of them not perform in any significant way better than the other one. But I am a fan of the idea, which nobody ever seems to consider, of actually disempowering parties.
That idea has a precedent in the first dozen years or so of our republic whose Constitution never planned for party rule, although nonpartisanship would
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Cheney's Crimes and Confessions: Torture Is the Least of It
By David Swanson
Dick Cheney’s statutory crimes are notable for their severity, their number, and his public confessions to them. Torture is the least of it.
We can start with the crimes found in the three articles of impeachment contained in H Res 333 in the 110th Congress:
1. "Cheney has purposely manipulated the intelligence process to deceive the citizens and Congress of the United States by fabricating a threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction to justify the use of the United
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Here Comes Single-Payer Healthcare in Another State
By David Swanson
A bill to create single-payer healthcare in California has passed that state’s senate for the third time now. Californians just need to persuade a governor to sign it. Single-payer healthcare bills are advancing in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Minnesota, Massachusetts, and a growing list of states, including New Mexico, where State Senator Jerry Ortiz y Pino, a long-time supporter of single-payer healthcare, is running for Lieutenant Governor.
Now North Carolina house candidate Marcus
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Senator Tom Udall to Call a Point of Order to Throw Out the Filibuster Rule
Senator Tom Udall of New Mexico has put an honest description of the antidemocratic filibuster rule on his website.
According to Jon Walker at FireDogLake Udall plans to call a point of order at the start of the next Congress to eliminate the filibuster rule.
This is the real solution that we need (although not all experts agree it has to wait for the start of a session), not asking the Vice President pretty please to declare the rule unconstitutional as Thomas Geoghegan suggests
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God Killed Haitians So "We Are the World" Could Have a Timely Topic
So say Lionel Ritchie and Quincy Jones, and with much gratitude toward God, in this video.
And, by the way, a bunch of American millionaires really are not the world. Charity from people who are allowing their government to destroy and exploit on unprecedented scale is pathetic enough, but thanking God for a timely tragedy is a little bit too much.
Nice song, though.
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Final Stops on the Daybreak Book Tour
Concluding a tour of over 50 U.S. cities, David Swanson has three stops left. Please join him in St. Louis, Chicago, and Boston:
Feb. 22 St. Louis, MO
Feb. 23 Chicago, IL
Feb. 27 Boston, MA
For more information and videos from the tour, go to
https://davidswanson.org/book
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