Video of David Swanson at Impeachment Town Hall in Charlotte NC
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Ritter's Repudiation Ritual
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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Iraq, Cowboys, and the Enormity of 18 Months
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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Rep. John Conyers Backs Impeachment
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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The Holy Occupation of Iraq
By David Swanson
I picked up a pamphlet the other day that said “Just for You” at the top, so I assumed it was just for me. Much of the front page contained an image of soldiers marching, and next to them the words “What’s your exit strategy?” That’s easy, I thought. Impeachment, removal, indictment, and conviction. But was this really a pamphlet about peace? I read the text at the bottom of the front page:
“In the 1960s and 1970s, the United States
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Is Our Peace Activists Learning?
By David Swanson
Over the past two months of repeated Congressional votes to fund the occupation of Iraq, culminating in President Bush’s signing the bill on Friday, what – if anything – have we learned? Have we learned anything about individuals or political parties or activist organizations to trust or despise, or have we learned better what to demand of them regardless of such emotions? Have we learned anything about policies to support, battles to lose, pyrrhic victories, or how
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Peace Radio
Catch David Swanson discussing Congress and the war at 7:30 a.m. Thursday, March 22, on 1200 a.m. in Detroit or streaming online at http://www.wchb1200.com
New Senate Report Is Worst Betrayal Yet
By David Swanson
Here it is, yawn, on the Friday before Memorial Day Weekend and on the day after a war debate in Congress, all 229 pages of it, and as riveting as a phone book: the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on Bush and Cheney’s war lies. This is what we’ve waited all these years for? Nancy Pelosi shaved her legs for THIS?
http://intelligence.senate.gov/prewar.pdf
We elected Democratic majorities in November of 2006 so that they could end the occupation and hold accountable
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