Tonight’s Urban Journal airs coast to coast at 8pm est on XM Ch 169, but it is available right now at http://www.theurbanjournal.org
Segments 1 and 2 David Swanson, Co-founder After Downing Street
Segment 3 Ruy Texeiria, Center For American Progress
Segment 4 Pastor Susan Smith, author Crazy Faith
Host Keith Murphy
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Check out our friend Mimi Kennedy who has a major role in this:
Mimi may have gotten the part because of her recording of the Downing Street Minutes.
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By David Swanson
I left a hearing this morning at which senators debated the merits of torturing people (Lindsay Graham took the pro-torture side). I went to a rally for single-payer healthcare in Upper Senate Park. No senators were there. Yesterday Senator Baucus had more doctors and nurses arrested for asking to speak in a hearing. But House members, including John Conyers and Jim McGovern crossed the hill to be at the rally.
And the big news was that last night single-payer activists had
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Jesselyn Radack and I are liveblogging in her post on Dailykos.
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Some nice support for prosecuting our top criminals here from superb radio host Mike Malloy.
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By David Swanson
Dr. Margaret Flowers, who was arrested along with seven others at the first Senate Finance Committee hearing on healthcare, just phoned me from the second one. As Chairman Max Baucus called the hearing to order, about 20 members of the California Nurses Association (CNA) stood and turned their backs on the committee. Pasted on their backs were signs reading: “Nurses Say: Patients First,” “Stop AHIP,” (referring to health insurance lobbyists), “Pass
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200 Organizations Ask Holder to Appoint a Special Prosecutor for Bush, Cheney, et alia
Two hundred organizations, including After Downing Street, Democrats.com, the Robert Jackson Steering Committee, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the National Lawyers Guild, the Society of American Law Teachers, Human Rights USA, the American Freedom Campaign, and the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, have signed a joint statement urging Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a special prosecutor for former
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Here’s what Norman Solomon says about Marcy, about Jane “cover up Bush’s spying” Harman, and about challenging incumbents. Every incumbent should be challenged from the left in this country every time. Waiting for a candidate as awful as Harman is pretty low standards. If we’re going to bomb people around the world in the name of democracy, the least we could do would be to have one!
Norman Solomon:
There are many reasons why progressives will mobilize behind the
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National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance
May 11, 2009
Attorney General Eric Holder
United States Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20530
Dear Sir:
We are writing on behalf of the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance. We are concerned citizens who tried to prevent the illegal invasion of Iraq. While we were unsuccessful, we have been devoting much time and energy to convince Congress to end the occupation. Over time we discovered that the Bush-Cheney administration
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Jay Bybee is a member of the D.C. bar and could be complained about there and disbarred, since apparently enforcing the laws he violated or impeaching him would just be too much trouble. Except that, as Gordon Clark pointed out to me, the Washington Post just printed a letter from the “senior legal ethics counsel for the District of Columbia Bar” essentially objecting the existence of ethics:
Regarding the May 7 news story “Experts Say Authors of Memos May Avoid Professional
