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Clinton Needs 181% of Remaining Delegates

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By David Swanson

Pledged delegates are awarded by voters and caucus goers. Super-delegates are antidemocratic Party control freaks who have no business deciding anything. Of pledged delegates, now that Oregon and Kentucky have had their say, Senator Obama has 1,648 and Senator Clinton 1,493. There are 86 pledged delegates remaining to be awarded in Puerto Rico, Montana, and South Dakota. This means that Clinton can still pull it out if she picks up 181 percent of the remaining delegates.

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Speak With Mary Pallant, Democratic Candidate from California's 24th District

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By David Swanson

Tonight, May 21st, from 8-9 p.m. ET, I’ll have the pleasure of interviewing, with your help, Mary Pallant, Democratic candidate for Congress from California’s 24th District. Go to: http://thepeoplespeakradio.net to learn more. Go to http://www.thepeoplespeakradio.net/listen-live read more

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New NSA Whistleblower Tells of Faulty WMD Evidence

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David Murfee Faulk was a translator in the Navy, working in Arabic and Iraqi dialect. In April 2004 he began working for the National Security Agency (NSA) at Fort Gordon outside Augusta, Georgia. (He now writes, under the name Murfee Faulk, for the Metro Spirit newspaper in Augusta, but he has never written about what he did for the NSA.)

Faulk says that in May 2004 he found an extremely large text file containing grid coordinates for alleged chemical weapons sites in Iraq. Faulk showed it read more

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Georgia On My Mind

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By David Swanson

Georgia’s 13th District consists of the western and southern suburbs and exurbs of Atlanta, and it is currently misrepresented by David Scott, a Democrat and a member of the Congressional Black Caucus who opposes impeaching Bush or Cheney and just voted Yes in the House’s failed attempt to put our grandchildren into debt for another $165 billion for occupying Iraq.

Georgia State Senator Donzella James is challenging Scott in the July 15th Primary. Her campaign tells read more

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U of Virginia Does Iraq

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By David Swanson

As an alumnus of the University of Virginia, I receive its magazine in the mail, a magazine that always makes me question how I can have received as good an education at UVA as I think I did, when the people who produce this magazine seem not to have received the same. The Summer 2008 issue contains an article called “Stories from Iraq”, which contains not a single story of a single Iraqi, coincidentally read more

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Cindy Sheehan to Speak in Charlottesville VA

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Sheehan to speak at Omni
By Erika Howsare, Cville Weekly

Peace activist Cindy Sheehan will speak in Charlottesville on May 22. She was in town almost exactly two years ago, speaking against the war in Iraq and about the death of her son there, and stopped here again last July for a rally in support of the impeachment of George Bush and Dick Cheney.

At that last appearance, Sheehan was talking about running for Congress in California’s Eighth District if the incumbent there, House Speaker Nancy read more

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Lincoln Chafee Calls Bush Worst President in History

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By David Swanson

Former Republican Rhode Island Senator Lincoln Chafee on Tuesday evening called George W. Bush the worst president in U.S. history and the occupation of Iraq the worst foreign tragedy in U.S. history. Chafee said Bush deserved to be impeached.

Chafee served in the U.S. Senate from 1999 to 2006 and credits his defeat in 2006 – as do most analysts – to his membership in the party of Bush and Cheney. In 2003 Chafee was the only Republican senator to vote against authorization read more

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Obama Needs Only 14 More Delegates

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By David Swanson

Wild Wonderful West Virginia may, when the last vote is counted (or tossed out) give Senator Clinton 18 pledged delegates and Senator Obama 10. It’ll be pretty close to that, and if that’s the final count, then the new totals will be Obama 1,602 and Clinton 1,440. There are 189 delegates left to be pledged. Of those, Clinton must win 176 of them, or 93 percent, in order to beat Obama. Obama, on the other hand, only needs to win 14 more delegates for the whole charade read more

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