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By David Swanson

When I worked for Dennis Kucinich’s presidential campaign in 2003, he routinely won the most applause at debates but was minimized or entirely left out of the next day’s stories in the corporate media. This meant that peace, and fair trade, and single-payer healthcare were left out too. At one debate at the University of New Hampshire, Kucinich pushed back.

Ted Koppel of ABC opened the debate with questions about endorsements. The second round of questions was about read more

By David Swanson

What it would have cost us to publicly fund independent media that would have prevented the invasion of Iraq wouldn’t amount, in a year, to what we spend on a month of occupying that country.

Diverting the cost of a month of war to a year of giving substance to our “freedom of the press” would mean that the last time someone asked you about the Teabaggers’ genius in being smart enough to talk dumb enough to persuade everyone to be racists would, in fact, read more

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Issue 41

64 Pages: WHAT WOULD MUHAMMAD ALI SAY ABOUT OBAMA’S WAR? Dave Zirin has the answer. Plus: Writing history in the streets; a tale of two wall; two book excerpts; Tony Blair: war criminal; unchecked globalisation and its threat to culture; are Israelis spies infiltrating your airport?; why Benjamin Dangl will never buy a Kindle. And much more

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A certain progressive website that will go nameless posted an article with my name and headline on it, but someone else’s article on a different topic. I agreed to a live TV interview about the article, assuming it was one I’d written. The host assumed I’d written the one she’d read. Oops. This was the result:

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