Progressive Democrats of America Energized by National Conference

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By David Swanson

Progressive Democrats of America marked the beginning of its seventh year with a three-day conference that brought hundreds of activist leaders from all over the country to a Cleveland, Ohio, hotel this past weekend. Participants heard from and met with star speakers, and split up and strategized in groups organized around issue areas and geography.

PDA activists engaged in similar work in distant states — opposing war funding, promoting single-payer healthcare, protecting read more

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Kucinich and Swanson on Lila Garrett's Radio Show Discussing War Funding on Monday

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LILA’s next show…
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Monday morning at 7 on CONNECT THE DOTS on KPFK fm (90.7 in LA. 98.7 Santa Barbara) or log on to:
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Host: Lila Garrett
Guests:

PAUL MAZURSKY, film maker (An Unmarried Woman, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Moscow on the Hudson) covers the evolution of movies, our world, and Amnesty International (he’s on the Exec. Board). A fun 20 minutes with a great film maker.

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Six Facts No War Supporter Knows

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By David Swanson

This coming week, the House of Representatives is expected to vote on $33 billion for war. A majority of Americans opposes this, but a sizable minority of Americans supports it. No one who supports it can be aware of any of the following six facts.

1. For many months, probably years, at least the second largest and probably the largest source of revenue for the Taliban has been U.S. taxpayers. We are giving the Taliban our money instead of investing it in useful things read more

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An Honest Look at Obama's First Year

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By David Swanson

Most commentary on President Barack Obama either beats him up unfairly because he’s not a Republican or cuts him extra slack because he’s not a Republican. If, in the privacy of your own home, you want to pause and review the main events of the first year or more of this presidency, as recorded by someone who obviously doesn’t care about partisan boosting, I recommend Paul Street’s new book “The Empire’s New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real read more

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Blood on Our Hands

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By David Swanson

The most massive and brutal crime committed on this planet during the past decade has been the invasion and occupation of Iraq. And we’re seeking to wash the blood off our hands without so much as an “Out, damn spot!” Nowadays “looking forward, not backward” is supposed to take care of everything, even as the crimes continue. What that takes care of is the leading perpetrators who begin to sense that the coast is clear and creep out of their holes read more

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North American Truth and Accountability Commission Sets Sights on CIA and Pentagon Human Experimentation Programs

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Florida –Organizers today announced the formation of the North American Truth and Accountability Commission for Human Experimentation (NATAC). The Commission, nearly 8 months in the making, was first proposed after a number of people had read the recently published book by H.P. Albarelli Jr., A TERRIBLE MISTAKE: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Secret Cold War Experiments. Albarelli’s book details a number of shocking human experiments conducted during the Cold War years. Following read more

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A Candidate in VA-05 Opposes War Spending

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By David Swanson

In an interview I recorded on Tuesday with Jeff Clark, an independent candidate for Congress in Virginia’s Fifth District, and the father of a Marine currently in Afghanistan, Clark told me he was opposed to putting another $33 billion into escalating the war in Afghanistan. Clark comes from the right on many issues and is often billed as the Tea Party candidate. The Virginia Independent Green Party supports him, despite his distance from them on most issues, possibly because read more

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Being Four

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Wesley, we’ve been teaching you a lot, and you’re a great learner. But I’m not sure you don’t have something to teach us as well. Your Mommy and I took you to Baltimore last weekend. We rode on a subway and you didn’t want to get off. You could be happy riding the subway all day. Or an escalator. You could ride up and down escalators all day and be ecstatic. Anyone who came near those escalators would be infected with happiness. We went to a children’s read more

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