Impeachment

By David Swanson

The Unitary Executive is scheduled to disgrace the grounds of Thomas Jefferson’s house, Monticello, in Charlottesville, Va., making a speech on the morning of July 4, 2008. The event is open to the public, and is Monticello’s annual Independence Day Celebration and Naturalization Ceremony. Numerous immigrants will become citizens in an event besmirched by the presence of a war criminal, and held in the district of Congressman Virgil Goode, whose entire reelection campaign read more

By David Swanson

That’s a translation of subpoena: Sub Poena: Under Punishment. And if you or I refused to obey a subpoena we would certainly be under punishment.

In fact, it used to be that laws in this country could be applied to everyone, even presidents. When President Richard Nixon refused to comply with subpoenas from a prosecutor, the Supreme Court told him he had to. When Nixon refused to comply with subpoenas from Congress, the House Judiciary Committee passed an article of impeachment read more

By David Swanson

Here are some upcoming live online radio shows you can participate in:

Thursday, June 26, 7-8 p.m. ET: Vincent Bugliosi, Author of ‘The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder’. Following a scheduling SNAFU and a wildfire, this is the third attempt to make this show happen.

Monday, June 30, 8-9 p.m. ET: Jesse Ventura, Former Governor of Minnesota, Wrestler, and Navy SEAL, author of new book “Don’t Start the Revolution Without Me.”

Tuesday, July 8, 8-9 p.m. read more

By David Swanson

My review of Congressman Robert Wexler’s book includes plenty of criticism of him. I would add my extremely negative view of the new get-tough-on-the-nonexistent-threat-from-Iran bill that he’s cosponsored. But this attack on him is utter nonsense.

Was Wexler late in coming to impeachment? Of course, he was. But not as late as many other Congress members, and not as late as many more who we hope will still come around. We want to welcome them with open arms, not read more

Kucinich introduces 35 articles of impeachment
By Lisa Kaiser, Milwaukee Express

The country may be running out the clock on the Bush administration, but impeachment advocates are hoping that President George W. Bush leaves office sooner than Jan. 1, 2009. Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich introduced 35 articles of impeachment in the House of Representatives last week, even though his party leader, Nancy Pelosi, had declared impeachment attempts to be “off the table.”

The House voted to send read more

Go listen here.

By David Swanson

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers consistently lists among his reasons for not holding impeachment hearings, his fear of the corporate media. But last week the corporate media exhibited its fear of impeachment. Only those voices in support of Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s articles of impeachment spoke. Others kept quiet. The network news shows avoided the topic, but the cable news shows gave us Keith Olbermann promoting impeachment on MSNBC, and Jack Cafferty read more

By David Swanson

Congressman Henry Waxman, Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, together with his staff, produces incredibly valuable research and analysis, with infinite patience and futility.

“Dear Secretary, As requested eight times previous….”

One doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Congressman Waxman has destroyed a small forest writing letters to the Bush Administration, asking for documents that are never produced, subpoenaing witnesses read more

Wouldn’t it be nice….

if there were a page where you could see the titles of Dennis Kucinich’s 35 articles of impeachment against Bush, and where is you clicked on a title it took you to the full text, plus the video of Dennis reading that article, plus documentation of the facts in the article, plus links to blogs about that article, and updates on the particular offenses since the introduction of the article?

And what if you could add comments and links to the page yourself?

And read more

By David Swanson

Who even remembered that Bush lied to the public and the Congress (by the way, that’s a felony) during his effort to destroy Medicare? Well, Congressman Dennis Kucinich remembered. He made that act into Article Number 30 of his 35 articles of impeachment. But there’s no reason he couldn’t have pulled out a dozen other similar incidents or even patterns of incidents. There is every reason to take him seriously when he threatens to come back in a month with read more

By David Swanson

Yes, bases have replaced taxes as one of life’s two certainties. For plenty of corporations and even privileged individuals in the United States and elsewhere, taxes are no more. But U.S. military bases are everywhere. And you can call them enduring. You can call them lasting. You can call them substantial. You can even call them humanitarian aid missions. But the damn things are permanent, and there aren’t too many corners of the globe in which you can hide read more

By David Swanson

This show was previously scheduled and postponed. Tonight it’s on for real. Listen and phone in!

Tonight, June 12th, from 7-8 p.m. ET, I’ll have the pleasure of interviewing, with your help, Vincent Bugliosi, author of “The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder.” Let’s figure out how to do this together. Go to: http://thepeoplespeakradio.net to learn more. Go to read more

By David Swanson

Ooops. Scratch that. It was not a local official. No need to get excited. No need to end the practice or hold the criminal accountable. No need to mention the scandal in news reports. It’s actually President George W. Bush. There’s nothing to see here. Move along. Shop. Eat. Vote. Sleep. Perish.

Or take seriously the following article of impeachment introduced on Monday evening by Congressman Dennis Kucinich:

Article XX
IMPRISONING CHILDREN

In his conduct read more

By David Swanson

Chairman John Conyers’ reasons not to impeach Bush or Cheney do not even include an assertion that they have not committed impeachable offenses or crimes. How could they, when Conyers is selling a book listing many of Bush and Cheney’s impeachable offenses and crimes? Conyers’ reasons do not include an assertion that he can end the ongoing crimes through some other approach. And they do not include any claim that a successful impeachment wouldn’t end read more