Media

By David Swanson

As someone who believes the producers of Fox News should be behind bars for promoting illegal wars and instigating domestic violence, and as someone who advocates never watching it, I feel compelled to speak up against the notion that Fox News is not a news outlet.

Now, Fox News does little investigative reporting. Mostly it chitters and chatters and re-processes. Nor does it stick with reliable information. It intentionally lies and distorts. It also screams and yells, demonizes read more

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I’ll be on these shows:

Salute America, 8 pm ET October 21st.

Radio Or Not with Nicole Sandler on Air America, 11:15 to Midnight ET October 21st.

Swami Beyondananda’s show (if you can find link you’re a better googler than I) at 3 pm ET October 22nd.

Coy Barefoot’s Charlottesville Right Now 4:30 to 4:55 pm ET October 22nd.

Today at: http://www.theurbanjournal.org

Seg. 1 Former Defense Secretary William Cohen
Seg. 2 David Cho, Washington Post
Seg. 3 David Swanson, author/activist author of “Daybreak”
Seg. 4 Kevin Muhammad (encore)

Greener Times
Maryrose Asher is a former Chair of the Green Party of Washington State and a tireless activist of many causes.

The co-founder of the After Downing Street Coalition, David Swanson, has just written a book, Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union, which I will review for next week’s column. Swanson uses a reference to a Yes! Magazine article, “Our Own Agenda to Policies for a Better America” by Sarah read more

From Lila Garrett:

Monday morning at 7 I’ll be back on CONNECT THE DOTS offering the following premiums:

Daybreak By David Swanson 342 pp. Book $100
True Compass Ted Kennedy memoir 532 pp… Book $180
Lila’s interview with Ted Kennedy CD $35
Lila’s Pack All of it $275

TRUE COMPASS by Ted Kennedy, is an instant best seller for good reason. With remarkable candor he goes through his life, with his family, his marriages, his heartbreak and years of struggle in the wake of his brother’s read more

By David Swanson, http://dontattackiran.org

The New York Times doesn’t mention the pivotal role it played in lying us into a war in Iraq, but it doesn’t have to. Everybody knows. On Wednesday, the Times put this article on its front page, and I highly recommend it as an ideal liner for bird cages:

In Dispute With Iran, Path to Iraq Is in Spotlight
By SCOTT SHANE, New York Times

WASHINGTON — To many Americans, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell’s February 2003 speech to the United read more

Tonight I’ll be on…

6:10-6:40 pm ET Paul Berenson Show.

7:00-8:00 pm ET Truth Hurts.

9:00-9:30 pm ET Between the Lines.

Residents to Protest City’s Failure to Address Unsafe Traffic
Aug 1, 2002

Over 100 Accidents in Past 5 Years in West Oak Cliff, But Dept. of Traffic and Public Works Refuses to Act
WHAT: Crowd of residents to protest in the street with signs, banners, chants
WHEN: 6:30 p.m. Monday Aug. 5
WHERE: Intersection of Cockrell Hill Avenue and Falls Drive

There have been over 100 traffic accidents in the Hispanic neighborhood of West Oak Cliff in Dallas in the past 5 years. Cars routinely drive 50 read more

By David Swanson

Fox News screaming head Glenn Beck now tells President Obama to fire White House employees, and Obama obeys. While Obama presumably believes obedience will cause Beck to like him and begin praising him, Beck is building a list of additional people whose heads he will demand and denouncing Obama as hiding vast secrets by having complied with the demand to fire Van Jones.

If you can’t stand to watch Glenn Beck on television and want some idea of how he persuades a noisy minority read more

By David Swanson

Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney sent an Email around on Sunday in which she wrote:

“[I]t has just now come to my attention that a ‘journalist’ who suggested that I be lynched was actually being paid by our own government to say that. Now, when I reported it to the FBI, how in the world was I to know that he was at that time on the FBI’s payroll?”

“Hate blogger” Hal Turner’s lawyer said last week, and prosecutors agreed, that Turner read more

David Swanson Interview With Stephen Lendman Tuesday, 11 AM EDT, Listen Live or On Archive

David Swanson will discuss his new book, “Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union” with Stephen Lendman on the Global Research News Hour on Tuesday, August 4th at 11 AM EDT, 10 AM Central. Click “Listen Live” here. The call-in number is 800-313-9443.

If you wish, you can get an mp3 by going to Global Research.ca, read more

The time has come.
The time has come.
The time is now.
Just go.
Go.
GO!
I don’t care how.
You can go by moose.
You can go by cow.
Sarah L. Palin will you please go now!
You can wear those boots.
You can show your knees.
You can don that hat.
But please go.
Please!
You can bring a
comb, a
mirror, a
brush, a
first class ticket
on the bus to
Russia.
You can wear read more

By David Swanson

A week ago, I published a report on 1,200 photos of U.S. torture that I have examined but the public at large has not seen. I talked about the photos on a few progressive radio shows. I received calls from some advocacy groups that have been trying for years to get hold of these photos. But I received not one single inquiry from the corporate media. Even most good blogs ignored this story despite a handful of prominent blogs read more

By David Swanson

On Tuesday my local newspaper reported on an event here in town on Monday. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer had come down to Charlottesville and spoken publicly with local Congressman Tom Perriello, generating a story and big color photo on page 1 of the Charlottesville Daily Progress. The headline was “In UVa visit, Democrats call deficit reckless.”

The newspaper reported on Congressman Perriello warning that he could not vote for healthcare without a way to pay read more

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Also Progressive Democrats of America has posted a recording of an Accountability & Justice Conference Call held on May 13, 2009.  Go here and skip the first 6 minutes of people calling in and introducing themselves.

By David Swanson

An association representing top advertisers on broadcast and cable television has proposed the creation of a new Cheney Channel dedicated exclusively to the Cheney family, the primary motivation apparently being to get Dick and Liz off all the other channels where their presence seems to be hurting the sales of advertised products.

OK, not really, but it wouldn’t surprise me. One of the products that Liz Cheney seems to be hurting is in fact Dick. Ray McGovern just pointed read more