By David Swanson
“I have a choice. I can either stand by and lead my constituents to believe I do not care that the president apparently no longer believes he is bound by any law or code of decency. Or I can act.” — U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers
The latest version of the lengthy report on Bush and Cheney’s crimes produced by John Conyers’ staff on the House Judiciary Committee includes a foreword by former Congresswoman Liz Holtzman which ends
By David Swanson
The most creative, energetic, and effective peace activists in the United States right now are women organized explicitly as “CODE PINK: Women for Peace.” While CODE PINK welcomes the participation of men (and when I’m in DC I stay at the CODE PINK house), the group is organized around the idea that women have a special role to play in working for peace. So, every once in a while I ask a bunch of Code Pinkers “Why don’t we have a group of Men for
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By David Swanson
The new film “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death” makes arguing against wars easy. If you get into a debate about war, just make the points made so clearly in this film, or – better yet – convince a war supporter to watch the film. Best of all would be to persuade every American to read Norman Solomon’s book of the same title, on which the movie is based.
The book has the greatest depth, but the movie has much to
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By David Swanson
PHOTO: Rep. Lynn Woolsey, interpreter Aseel Al-Banna, Iraqi Electrical Utility Workers Union President Hashmeya Muhsin Hussein
Americans should keep lobbying Congress to end the occupation of Iraq, but should also try lobbying the Iraqi government, which appears more open to listening.
Iraqi Electrical Utility Workers Union President Hashmeya Muhsin Hussein (through interpreter Aseel Al-Banna) met with a number of U.S. Congress Members on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., and spoke
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By David Swanson
In March 2006, former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter posted an article online proposing that the antiwar movement learn techniques from warriors. Ritter developed the article into the recently released book “Waging Peace: The Art of War for the Antiwar Movement.” At the same time, Ritter has just posted online a new provocative
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By David Swanson
Eighteen months ago Congressman John Murtha and other pro-war Democrats had not yet developed even a muddled half-hearted opposition to the occupation of Iraq, Joe Lieberman had not lost a primary, MoveOn.org and the Center for American Progress were pretending there was no such thing as Iraq, and the Democratic Party had shoved its collective head so far up… well, let’s just say the pretense was alive and well that Iraq was not the central issue in American politics.
Eighteen
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By David Swanson
Advocates for impeachment can take some measure of encouragement not just from the 85 cities and towns and 14 state Democratic parties that have passed impeachment resolutions, or the 11 state legislatures that have introduced them (Maine was #11 on Tuesday), but also from comments made Tuesday evening in Detroit by House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers.
For about a year now there have been two Congressmen Conyers, the defender of our Constitution and the follower of Nancy
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