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.
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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
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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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