Comic Lover for Justice
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By David Swanson
We moved George Doubleya to Dallas
And Dick Cheney to McLean
Let’s put Our torture victims
On an American-built plane
We moved our occupation
To Vietghanistan
Let’s Move Guantanamo to Bagram
And pretend we have a plan
To restore the Constitution
With a brand new PATRIOT Act
Identical to the old one
But presented with more tact
We’ll make laws with signing statements
Only when necessary
And we’ll only shout “State Secrets!”
Approved
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The Recipe, which consists of Priest and 337, trying out their new poem written in opposition to a plant in Kansas City that produces parts for nuclear bombs, and which the city proposes to fund the move and expansion of with $40 million meant for urban needs.
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By David Swanson
Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young have just released a pair of incredible albums of protest, one a bone-rattling revival of the best of rebel music of ages past, the other an impassioned attack on our present slide toward fascism. A hundred years from now, if the human race has survived, when a future Springsteen records a future “Seeger Sessions” it will be bound to include the music of Young’s “Living With War.” Also by that time, Young’s
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