We bomb the world
We kill the children
We are the ones who let the wars go on
So let’s stop bullsh–ing
There’s a choice we’re making
We’re ending our own lives
We’ll never make a brighter day through charity
You can join the rest of the country on Valentine’s Day in breaking up with the big banks and making these too big to fail monstrosities too failing to be big:
http://www.bankbreakup.org
Come on.
A little less talk and a lot more action.
B-b-b-but There's Nothing I Can Doooooooo. Waaaaaaaaah. Bull. Read More »
By David Swanson
It’s not that I really object to lies about Obama. Most people lie about Obama to make him look good, for the same reason they lie about death or God — because they can’t handle the truth. Others lie about Obama because Fox News told them to or because he’s black, but they mostly make him look better too (“socialist!” “pacifist!” “government healthcare!”). What does disturb me is the entire 16-page afterword to John
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I’d love to see this backed up by specifying a single thing Perriello has done (I don’t mean thought in his heart of hearts, but done) that is more liberal than Virginia’s Fifth District.
Josh Marshall Claims Perriello Is More Liberal Than Our District — Huh? Read More »
By David Swanson
Answer: They get around the pesky will of the majority of the American people.
Here’s a lovely post from the DailyKos praising the president of the AFL-CIO for encouraging the president of the United States to appoint officials during a recess in order to get around the Senate.
We’ve grown used to hearing “progressives” urge Obama to make laws with signing statements and executive orders. The treaty he’s using to occupy Iraq never went to the Senate
How Are Recess Appointments Like Filibusters? Read More »
By David Swanson
“Prophecy” is the title of a new play by Karen Malpede, and I’m here to attempt the unamerican task of telling you to see it without telling you it’s a comedy. In fact, I’m going to confess that I had to take a break from it and recover before I could write about it. I felt like I’d taken a blow with an enormous sledge hammer, even though I knew that a whole orchestra of smaller instruments had produced what I was feeling.
It was not a bad
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By David Swanson
At http://defundwar.org citizen activists are constantly updating a spreadsheet tracking the positions of their congress members on voting to fund more war.
Vernon Huffman recently posted this report:
“In his recent town hall, Rep. Schrader (D-OR) said he would vote against funding the war in Afghanistan.”
Leah Bolger posted this one:
“I have spoken with Congressman Schrader several times about pledging to defund the wars, HR 3699, etc. He has said repeatedly
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Kucinich Right, Greenwald Wrong
By David Swanson
On Democracy Now! on Tuesday, Congressman Dennis Kucinich said he was working on a Constitutional Amendment to address both “Citizen’s United” and “Buckley v. Valejo,” meaning the Supreme Court decisions giving corporations outrageous and destructive powers of “free speech” and defining the spending of money as “speech.”
Glenn Greenwald replied to the Congressman that the First Amendment forbids
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By David Swanson
Walking through Charlottesville, Va., today I saw a sight that is increasingly common in the United States: men in prison uniforms, watched by guards, out working in public, in this case shoveling snow. I asked them if they were being paid for their work, and they just laughed.
A short while later I ran into a city official who was clearly familiar with the prisoner snow-shoveling program. He told me it was nothing new, part of “work release,” gave the prisoners a
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By David Swanson
Peter Dyer sums up well the sort of conclusions we can draw from the ongoing Chilcot Inquiry into Britain’s role as sidekick launcher of aggressive war on Iraq:
“On March 18, 2003, on the eve of the invasion of Iraq, Elizabeth Wilmshurst resigned as Deputy Legal Adviser to the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), the British equivalent of the U.S. State Department.
“‘I regarded the invasion of Iraq as illegal, and I therefore did not feel able to continue
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I’ve seen a lot of war movies, but this is a great one:
http://thegoodsoldier.com
This is the story of real veterans of U.S. wars, including Michael McPhearson whom many of us know as a leader in Veterans for Peace. These are veterans who have come to an understanding that war is all about training and compelling human beings to become murderous animals, and that the damage is deep even for those least harmed by this project, namely the killers themselves.
What Makes a Good Soldier? What Makes a Good Murderer? Read More »
Excerpt from an Email promoting an upcoming conference:
Imagine stripping this out of the context of partisan thinking. Imagine supporting Reagan to be a brilliant intellectual. Imagine supporting the military to teach nonviolence. Shall we try supporting Wall Street to solve the housing crisis? We could support thieves to protect our stuff while we’re out supporting hurricanes to provide gentle breezes.
Will anyone at this conference perhaps ask whether opposing everything we oppose
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It’s an inspiration, an achievable goal, an organizing tool, and a route around the corporate media cartel: a giant billboard for what we all want but our televisions are afraid to mention. It’s a project worth supporting!
Imagine…a "Peace Blimp"- defiantly displaying a message of peace across the skies of the nation, unable to be dismissed, ignored or brushed aside. Rallies for peace greet the blimp in every city it visits. Politicians,
A Peace Blimp: What's That?! Read More »
At 3pm Saturday, June 5, 2010, Humanists for Peace will hold a landmark session on peace and humanism at the 69th Annual Conference of the American Humanist Association. The conference, among the largest gatherings of humanists, atheists, and freethinkers from across the country, runs from June 3-6 at the Doubletree Hotel in San Jose, California.
Official website:
http://www.americanhumanist.org/What_We_Do/Annual_Conference
Why Peace is a Humanist Issue:
Humanism and Past and
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Kucinich is right here, and Greenwald wrong, and here’s why:
Jonathan Turley thinks the Supreme Court’s ruling will be very bad for the country, and he supports it. He also opposes amending the Constitution to directly fix it. Glenn Greenwald takes a similar approach:
"Critics emphasize that the Court’s ruling will produce very bad outcomes: primarily that it will severely exacerbate the problem
Brownbaggers Not Teabaggers
VIGILS AGAINST WAR FUNDING SPREAD ACROSS NATION
Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) organized "brownbag" lunch vigils against war funding at noon on Wednesday, January 20th, at the district offices of 22 members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
On February 17th, PDA will be joined by CODEPINK, AfterDowningStreet, Democrats.com, the California Nurses Assn./National Nurses United, and United for Peace and Justice in holding brownbag vigils
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Nothing Lawrence Lessig says here is false exactly. But if Congress is the problem and the problem is the money, how can there never — in anybody’s predictable articles on this topic — be any mention of the fact that the president takes more money than any congress member, and power to do most things has been handed over by Congress to the president? How can these two points be avoided?
Is Congress THE Problem? Read More »
