By David Swanson
Alternet is exactly right about the damaging effect of the New Yorker cover depicting Obama as Osama, and does not excuse it because the New Yorker shouts “Satire!”
And at the same time, Alternet approves of John Cusack’s “War, Inc.”, presumably because it’s “satire” and because glorifying violence is so much a part of the air we breathe that Alternet doesn’t
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By David Swanson
Senator Obama published a sketch of a plan for Iraq in the New York Times today, and it’s about the same as his plan has always been, clearly superior to Bush or McCain and yet horribly muddled, vague, and militaristic, until he gets to the highly encouraging last few lines. Obama begins by fudging Maliki’s call to withdraw troops into his own longstanding call to withdraw “combat
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By David Swanson
Imagine that you’ve not eaten a decent meal in months, that the hunger is squeezing and burning you from the inside, and that suddenly you find yourself at an 18-course feast of a dinner — say perhaps at a summit meeting of world leaders discussing food shortages. You sit down at the table, and they bring in giant platters of the most delicious foods, building a rolling mountain chain of delicacies from one end of the table to the other. On Thursday, July 10, 2008,
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By David Swanson
Actions mean more to me, and to the millions affected by them, than words. If Obama had voted to toss out the Fourth Amendment and Clinton had voted to keep it PRIOR to the primary in Virginia, I would have voted for Clinton. Yes, I know, Obama didn’t vote to invade Iraq, but that is because he was not in the Senate at the time. As soon as he got there, he voted hundreds of billions of our dollars to fund what he supposedly opposed, as of course did Clinton who had also
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From David Swanson
The peace movement has stood for peace and justice, for ending wars, preventing new ones, and building peace. Our top priority in Washington, D.C., has been ending the funding of the occupation. That work is over for the next year, because Congress has provided that funding.
We can still work against recruitment, we can still educate, we can still agitate, we can still oppose an attack on Iran. But one of our secondary priorities in Washington has been imposing a penalty for the
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On Thursday Congressman Dennis Kucinich, who had already introduced 3 articles of impeachment against Cheney and 35 against Bush introduced a single article of impeachment against Bush charging him with misleading Congress into a war on Iraq. Also on Thursday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi told
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THIS HAS BEEN POSTPONED
By David Swanson
Wednesday, July 9, 8-9 p.m. ET: Elizabeth de la Vega, former federal prosecutor, author of “The United States vs. George W. Bush.”
Go to http://www.thepeoplespeakradio.net/listen-live to listen live.
You’ll find instructions there to enter a paltalk chat room where you can post questions.
You can also phone in and ask your questions on the air. Call in tollfree from anywhere in the United States or Canada at 888-228-4494 or anywhere else
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By David Swanson
Back in March 2007, John Stauber was for forcing tough actions for peace from the new Democratic Congress, and David Sirota was opposed. Now the two of them chat as though we were all for the same principled push for peace all along. This is good news, because – to his credit – Sirota has improved his position. But just wait until we actually achieve peace. Everybody and their brother will have been sacrificing for it. And that will be a good thing.
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By David Swanson
Here are two upcoming live online radio shows you can participate in:
Tuesday, July 8, 8-9 p.m. ET: John Dean, counsel to President Richard Nizon, whose latest book is “Broken Government,” and whose past works include “Worse Than Watergate.”
Wednesday, July 9, 8-9 p.m. ET: Elizabeth de la Vega, former federal prosecutor, author of “The United States vs. George W. Bush.”
Go to http://www.thepeoplespeakradio.net/listen-live to listen live.
You’ll
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