Rain Taxi Review of Books Publishes Long Interview About "Daybreak"
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Dangerous People Needed
By David Swanson
“Glaubt es mir – das Geheimnis, um die größte Fruchtbarkeit und den größten Genuß vom Dasein einzuernten, heisst: gefährlich leben.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
On Thursday night I had the privilege of viewing a premier of a film together with its star. The theater was in the U.S. Capitol, and the film was “The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers” ( http://www.mostdangerousman.org
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Live TV Interview on Article I Didn't Write – Whoa!
A certain progressive website that will go nameless posted an article with my name and headline on it, but someone else’s article on a different topic. I agreed to a live TV interview about the article, assuming it was one I’d written. The host assumed I’d written the one she’d read. Oops. This was the result:
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Brzezinski Says Ignore US Public on Afghanistan
By David Swanson
Zbigniew Brzezinski spoke at a RAND Corporation forum on Afghanistan in a Senate caucus room on Thursday. His first statement was that “Withdrawal from Afghanistan in the near future is a No-No.” He offered no reasons why and suggested that his other statements would be more controversial.
During a subsequent question-and-answer period, I asked Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter, why he had provided no rationale for his first rule.
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Congress Affirms Iraq Withdrawal Date of December 31, 2011
By David Swanson
Here’s an important release from AFSC:
“With final action in the Senate today, Congress has approved legislation that formally recognizes the U.S. obligation to withdraw from Iraq and requires the Pentagon to provide quarterly reports on the progress of that withdrawal. This is the first time since the invasion of Iraq in 2003 that Congress has passed legislation that affirms that the United States is committed to leaving Iraq by a specific date, two national Quaker
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Healthcare Hoax from Hell
By David Swanson
Lies, damn lies, and promises from Democrats. An amendment allowing states to create state-level single-payer healthcare has been stripped out of the House healthcare bill, after having passed in committee back in July by a vote of 27 to 19. And rumor has it that a vote on national single-payer that was promised in July in exchange for skipping a committee vote on it will now be denied.
First, the state single-payer amendment.
Back in July, the House Committee on Education and
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Harman Hemming on Harm She's Done
In this video (full length 1:13:15) scroll ahead to 53:55 to hear veteran CIA analyst Ray McGovern question Congresswoman Jane Harman on her vote for the Authorization to Use Military Force. McGovern also asks her about her rather dramatic shift two years ago to a position of opposing warrantless spying and civil liberties abuses, and whether that shift should be credited to the primary challenge made by Marcy Winograd, which Winograd is renewing next year.
At about 1:01 Harman responds. She
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C-Span Book TV to Air "Daybreak" Book Event the Weekend of November 21st
This event was pre-recorded in Miami, Fla.
Check schedule at http://www.booktv.org
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Which Side Are You On?
By David Swanson
There appear to be two teams in Washington playing under the banners of elephants and donkeys. They have different platforms, use different rhetoric, call each other bad names, and (in the case of the elephants) filibuster bills and impeach and prosecute abuses and crimes by the other side. One team wants to provide us with more healthcare, maybe, sort of, and the other does not. One side is hesitant about or even resistant to demonizing or discriminating against foreigners
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