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By Sam Harris, Boston Globe

THE MIDTERM elections are fast approaching, and their outcome could well be determined by the “moral values

ImpeachPAC, a federal PAC funding pro-impeachment candidates for Congress, has announced additional endorsements, including: James Wright, Democratic nominee in the Eighth District of Texas; Stacey Tallitsch, Democratic nominee in Louisiana’s First District; Danny Stover, Democratic nominee in Illinois’ 19th; Bill Glass, Democratic and Green nominee in North Carolina’s Ninth; Steve Young, Democratic nominee in the 48th District of California; John Laesch, Democratic nominee in read more

Colbert vs. Dawkins [VIDEO]
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By David Swanson

“Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers,” by far the best film Robert Greenwald has created, is not about the military industrial complex. Rather, it is about the remaining shell of the former military, having embedded within itself not just the media, but numerous other corporate entities. The U.S. military no longer cooks its own food, washes its own laundry, repairs its own vehicles, or guards its own V.I.P.s. We’ve privatized everything, right down to the shooting read more

By David Swanson

Recently someone Emailed me a brief policy statement on four major issues. They’d received it from a political activist group, they said, and were passing it along with praise. I think it’s worth commenting on, because the positions are those many progressive groups take, but – far from being “stands” on the issues, as my correspondent described them, they are closer to being methods of rolling over.

Here’s the first:

“The War in Iraq
“We read more

Trupiano is the Democratic nominee in Michigan’s 11th District. The audio of this interview is here: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/14658

David Swanson: Tony Trupiano, it’s great to talk to you; so how does campaigning compare to working on the radio?

Tony Trupiano: There is no comparison. As you and I are talking, we are 22 days out of the election. David, I can honestly tell you I am not the same person today that I was when I sought your advice and counsel some 14 months read more

By David Swanson

Lewis Lapham, essayist extraordinaire and editor of Harper’s magazine, asked Congressman John Conyers what he thought the point was of publishing a lengthy report laying out evidence of Bush’s impeachable offenses. Conyers’ response was: “to take away the excuse that we didn’t know.”

But Lapham still wanted to know what the hurry was: why not wait until the Democrats had a large majority, or more investigations were done, or the public demanded read more

Monday, October 30, 7 p.m.
Hunt Union Ballroom
New York State University at Oneonta
Oneonta, NY
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