Pick up some “ARREST BUSH & CHENEY” sweatshirts and t-shirts for the holidays and to join us in front of the FBI building during the January 20th inauguration parade! Our friends have a permit for 3,000 people wearing or carrying this message. I guarantee we’ll have more fun that anybody dressing for prom and taking out a high-interest loan to buy a ticket to a formal ball.
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Requesting the prosecution of a known criminal ought not to be an action that requires any particular consideration or debate. If we are a society based on the rule of law, then this is simply what must be done. John Yoo, Professor of Law at Boalt Hall School of Law in Berkeley, California, (but a lawyer with the Pennsylvania bar from which he should be debarred and would be if enough people demanded it) counseled the White House on how to get
Those were among the topics on December 3rd when I (David Swanson) joined a panel of guests on PressTV’s “American Dream”. Also on the panel was Edward Peck, a former ambassador who has opposed militarism and who inspired a now well-known sermon by Jeremiah Wright. I interviewed Peck in October on The
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An ornament urging Bush’s impeachment has been removed from the White House Christmas tree, but there’s no reason you can’t have impeachment for your holiday celebration and prosecution in the new year. Watch this video!
For $10.23 at Amazon.com you can have “The 35 Articles of Impeachment and the Case for Prosecuting
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Take a look at this article:
Obama’s Thoughts Evolve on US Troops in Iraq
By Thom Shanker, International Herald TribuneWashington – On the campaign trail, Senator Barack Obama offered a pledge that electrified and motivated his liberal base, vowing to “end the war” in Iraq.
True, and important, but he also made the details clear to anyone trying to find out. These details:
But as he moves closer to the White House, President-elect Obama is making it clearer than
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By David Swanson
The largest peace coalition in the United States, United for Peace and Justice, will meet in Chicago on December 12 through 14th to set its agenda for the coming year. A draft Strategic Framework is already available. It includes four area for the peace movement to work on:
1) We remain committed to the urgent goal that has always been the centerpiece of our work: immediately ending the U.S. war and occupation in Iraq and bringing all the troops home! We call for an end to the
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By David Swanson
So, now we discover that Bush was warned in detail of the looming foreclosure crisis and told what would prevent it and what would make it worse. He chose to make it worse. Funny, he was also warned about Hurricane Katrina (we have the videotape), but he claimed he had no possible way of knowing what could happen. He was warned exactly how the Iraqis would react to an occupation of their country, but he said he had no idea. He got a memo describing the 9-11 attacks pretty clearly
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By David Swanson
I know, I know, Bush liberated the Iraqis. But when will we liberate them from Bush’s liberation? Well, ideally, the American people will rise up tomorrow and force Congress to cease funding the occupation and to vote an immediate and complete withdrawal with a veto-overriding supermajority, not to mention impeaching Bush and Cheney. I raise that possibility not so much because I’ve been drinking as because long-term movements for systemic reform require awareness
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