Peace in a Gas Pump or Bringing Pharaoh's Armed Madhouse Home

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By David Swanson

May 28 — This evening here in Virginia, Bruce Springsteen and the Seeger Sessions Band jammed for hours at an outdoor pavilion, leading tens of thousands of us in protest songs, including a powerful rendition of “Bring Them Home.” The concert was held at the Nissan Pavilion, a characterless monument to automobiles surrounded by an ocean of the things, cars and trucks and SUVs which spent hours creeping in and out before and after the show. Many of us devoted read more

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OP-ED: California Can Impeach Bush and Cheney, PCH Press

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OP-ED: California Can Impeach Bush and Cheney, PCH Press
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by DAVID SWANSON afterdowningstreet.org | 5-27-06

There are three paths leading to impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney. All three are being led by California.

37 HEROES

The first path is through a bill in Congress.

There are 398 Members of the House of Representatives who do not believe Congress should investigate the Bush Administration’s abuses of power, specifically its fraudulent case read more

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RNC Line on Impeachment: Verily, This Is That

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By David Swanson

Black is white. War is peace. Impeachment is good for Republicans. Haven’t you heard? The Republicans say so. The Democrats say so. It just must BE so.

And yet there isn’t a shred of evidence to support it. Usually when we hear that a minimum wage is bad for low-income workers or tax cuts for billionaires benefit the poor, or any such apparently upside-down fantasy, we are at least given semi-plausible theories for how those lies could be truths.

In this case, read more

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The Case for Impeachment

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By David Swanson

In the United States, our best journalism is published in books now and talked about on the radio and the internet. If you get your news from a television or a newspaper, you live in another world. This no doubt contributes to how divided we are politically. Dave Lindorff’s and Barbara Olshansky’s book could help bridge this national divide. The genius of this book is in its brevity. Lindorff and Olshansky have boiled the list of Bush and Cheney’s documented crimes read more

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So, How WOULD a Patriot Act?

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By David Swanson

Glenn Greenwald’s new book “How Would a PATRIOT ACT? Defending American Values from a President Run Amok,” lays out a powerful, concise, and well-researched argument that President Bush is a threat to our government’s system of checks and balances and to our individual liberties.

Greenwald makes a point of saying that he used to be a supporter of Bush and trusted him as long as he was able. The voices Greenwald quotes are those of conservatives, the group read more

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Be a Part of the Growing Pro-Impeachment Grassroots Movement

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By David Swanson, PDA National Board Member / Co-Founder, AfterDowningStreet.org

Remarks at Progressive Democrats of America Lobby Training, May 21, 2006, Washington, D.C.

On Friday our President attended a fundraiser in Virginia Beach for a Republican Congress Member. But the Congress Member didn’t show up. This has happened a number of times, with both Bush and Cheney. Yesterday, the LA Times ran an article on the way in which AH-nold is backing away from Bush. Republicans are beginning read more

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43,000 Reasons Not to Attack Iran

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By David Swanson
Remarks in front of White House, May 17, 2006.

Some weeks back, Cindy Sheehan asked me to start a petition opposing an attack on Iran. We posted it at www.dontattackiran.org

It’s wonderful that so many people are here as we deliver the petition to the White House. It would be nice if President Bush were here, but I understand he’s run for the border in search of his lost 30 percent approval rating.

The other people who should be here, but who are here in spirit, are read more

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IRAQ WAR IMAGES UNCENSORED

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By David Swanson

This collection of photos is the most complete we are aware of. Many of them are being made public here for the first time. Many of them are extremely gruesome. These must not be censored, because this is what a war really looks like, and that is something citizens need to see in order to cast informed ballots and lobby our representatives for or against war.

Please copy all of these images onto your own website. No need to ask permission. Please simply give credit to AfterDowningStreet.org. read more

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Why Religion Must End

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By Laura Sheahen, Beliefnet
http://www.alternet.org/story/36195/

Sam Harris is not your grandfather’s atheist. The award-winning writer practices Zen meditation and believes in the value of mystical experiences. But he’s adamant in his belief that religion does more harm than good in the world, and has sparked controversy by suggesting that when it comes to faith-based violence, religious moderates are part of the problem, not the solution.

Laura Sheahen spoke with him about his provocative read more

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Bush Beats Out Nixon: Least Liked President Ever

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By David Swanson

This day has been long coming. The graphs have shown it would soon be upon us: Now, here we are. With this new Harris poll, available through the Wall Street Journal, President Bush claims the titlelong held by Richard Nixon: Least Liked President Ever (or at least since there have been polls). And this data comes to us from before the USA Today reported on Bush’s NSA secretly monitoring our phone records.

Bush’s approval rating is now at 29%, and disapproval at read more

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Poll: Bush Lied About Iraq, Has No Right to Attack Iran

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By David Swanson, http://www.opednews.com
A new poll conducted in Pennsylvania by Zogby International and commissioned by OpEdNews.com asked some of the questions the corporate media has failed to ask. The answers are surprising. One revelation is this: the single greatest predictor of an American’s political views is whether she or he watches Fox News. READ MORE: http://tinyurl.com/sxwcz

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Cindy Sheehan's New Book: Dear President Bush

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By David Swanson

Cindy Sheehan’s interviews, essays, and speeches get better with each passing month, as her pain continues, her passion and insight grow, and the war that killed her son goes on – as the president who killed her son goes on being president. Cindy’s latest book, “Dear President Bush,” is the best of the three books by or about Cindy Sheehan that I’ve read.

“Not One More Mother’s Child” was Cindy’s first collection of essays. read more

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RNC Attack on John Conyers Demands Action from Democrats

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By David Swanson

The Republican National Committee (RNC) has launched an aggressive campaign to smear Congressman John Conyers.

Here’s the background: It is accepted common wisdom among reporters, pundits, congressional staffers, and a majority of Americans that Bush and Cheney lied us into a war. A new “smoking gun” piece of evidence makes the news on almost a weekly basis, and that has been going on for upwards of a year. Yet there has been no investigation in either branch read more

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Atheists for Peace

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By David Swanson

With the exception of Jews and African-Americans, no demographic group in the United States voted more heavily against Bush and for Gore and Kerry than did atheists, who make up 10 percent of the electorate. Atheists tend to be disproportionately progressive. So do atheistic countries.

The Atheist Manifesto that Sam Harris has posted at Truth Dig http://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/200512_an_atheist_manifesto read more

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Wrongly Convicted, Almost Executed, Awarded $2.25 Million

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Here’s an article about yesterday’s jury award of $2.25 million to Earl Washington, whom the state of Virginia came within days of killing for a crime he had been clumsily and obviously framed for. Washington is mentally retarded, poor, and black. White cops in Culpeper, Virginia, interrogated him and fed him information about the crime. They did not take notes for much of this interrogation, read more

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An Atheist Manifesto

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By Sam Harris, Truth Dig

Editor’s Note: At a time when fundamentalist religion has an unparalleled influence in the highest government levels in the United States, and religion-based terror dominates the world stage, Sam Harris argues that progressive tolerance of faith-based unreason is as great a menace as religion itself. Harris, a philosophy graduate of Stanford who has studied eastern and western religions, won the 2005 PEN Award for nonfiction for The End of Faith, which powerfully examines read more

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Washington Post Blogger Makes Laughable Attempt to Defend Rumsfeld Against McGovern

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By David Swanson

WaPo’s William Arkin has posted a blog with the headline “Rumsfeld Didn’t Lie, But He Should Still Go.”

He quotes Rumsfeld’s exchange with Ray McGovern and then writes: “If the issue here is Saddam Hussein’s connection to al Qaeda and his involvement in 9/11, to the ‘bulletproof’ evidence the administration claimed, and more important for America, to the likelihood that Saddam would have ever shared any WMD with terrorists read more

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J. Jill, Ann Taylor, Liz Claiborne: Made By Slaves, Backed by Congress

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By David Swanson

The Spring 2006 issue of Ms. Magazine contains an article by Rebecca Clarren about some beautiful tropical islands described by disgraced House Majority Leader Tom Delay as “a perfect petri dish of capitalism.” What’s so perfect about Saipan and the other 13 Northern Mariana Islands? Primarily this: items produced there can carry the label “Made in USA” and be sold in the U.S. without tariffs or quotas, but the scandalously low U.S. minimum wage read more

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Lobbying Hitler's Legislature for Peace

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By David Swanson

There are now 37 Congress Members backing an investigation into grounds for impeachment related to the war. Rep. Hilda Solis has joined the list of cosponsors of House Resolution 635, introduced by Congressman John Conyers.
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/635

This compares to 17 members backing Rep. Jim McGovern’s bill to cut off funding for the war.
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Why are 20 more members on one of these bills than on the other?

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