Here’s one of the best radio shows there is: http://www.theurbanjournal.org
Here’s the audio clip.
Radio: David Swanson on The Urban Journal Discussing Elections and Impeachment Read More »
By David Swanson
Obama has 1,491 pledged delegates. Clinton has 1,332 pledged delegates. There remain 408 delegates to be pledged, plus 19 that have been pledged to Edwards. Clinton would need to win by a gap of 39 percent to catch up to Obama – not the “huge win” of 9 percent that she had in Pennsylvania.
These numbers are based on leaving out Florida and Michigan, which are being left out.
These numbers do not include Super Delegates.
But these are the indisputable numbers
Funny Math, Part I, The Obama-Clinton Story Read More »
By David Swanson
California’s 24th District is grotesquely misrepresented by Cheney-Bush rubber stamper Elton Gallegly, who is ready to start his lobbying career on K Street but who was talked into running again by the Republican Party. People are energized to unseat him, and three Democrats are running in the primary. One of them stands out, and is standing next to me in the attached photo: Mary Pallant.
Pallant is for single-payer health coverage:
“The only way you can be sure
Mary Pallant Plans to Unseat Elton Gallegly Read More »
By David Swanson
A new collection of essays edited by Mark Crispin Miller called “Loser Take All: Election Fraud and the Subversion of Democracy, 2000 – 2008,” tells the story better than any single source I’ve seen yet.
The Supreme Court stopped a recount in Florida in 2000 that would have made Al Gore president. This is not speculation. The recount was later done.
Numerous elections were stolen in 2002, in Colorado, New Hampshire, Minnesota, and elsewhere, including
The 2008 Election Will Be Stolen Read More »
By David Swanson
In case anyone doubted it, ABC News is now reporting that Dick Cheney authorized torture.
An impeachment hearing charging Cheney with authorizing torture would force John McCain to deal publicly and endlessly with his history of first trying to re-criminalize torture and then accepting Bush and Cheney’s public and dictatorial authorization of torture with a signing statement and later applauding a veto of yet another re-banning of torture.
Do the Democrats who place making
Want an Obama Landslide? Read More »
By David Swanson
Donna Edwards worked wonders by nearly beating Al Wynn in a Maryland congressional primary in 2006 and threatening to run again. Wynn had been one of the worst members of Congress and became one of the best. He transformed from a defender of loan sharks to a defender of the little guy. He shifted from backing the invasion and occupation of Iraq to opposing it and attending peace rallies. He was the first to sign onto Congressman Kucinich’s articles of impeachment against
Donna Edwards Moves Right, Falls into Line Read More »
By David Swanson
How would you like to vote for a political party that sacrifices hundreds of thousands of lives to win elections? Yeah, neither would I. So, how can they be so sure they will win elections?
Of course I’m talking about the Democratic Party’s strategy of continuing to fund the bloody occupation of Iraq.
Or how would you like to support an activist or think-tank organization that obeys the Democratic Party in the same strategy?
I just took part in a media conference call
Using People's Lives to Win (or Lose) Elections Read More »
Tonight from 8 – 9 p.m. ET I’ll be interviewing Mark Crispin Miller and he’ll be taking your questions at http://www.thepeoplespeakradio.net
Mark Crispin Miller is professor of media studies at New York University and the author of the book: Fooled Again, How the Right Stole the 2004 Elections. He is known for his writing on American media and for his activism on behalf of democratic media reform. His books include Boxed In: The Culture of TV, Seeing Through Movies, and Mad Scientists,
Mark Crispin Miller Live Online Tonight and Taking Your Questions Read More »
By David Swanson
What if Senator John McCain were forced to choose an extremely and increasingly unpopular position and stand by it for months as it became less and less popular?
No, I don’t mean his support for a permanent occupation of Iraq. Nobody forced him to take that position, and Senator Barack Obama is not exactly taking optimal advantage of it. Were Obama opposing the occupation, committing to filibuster further funding, promising to prosecute the architects of the war, devoting
Make McCain Choose Read More »
