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Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union by David Swanson

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Book Can Now Be Ordered, Book Tour Being Planned

You can now pre-order my book at Amazon.com at http://tinyurl.com/daybreakbook

It’s a thick book containing everything I know – and then some – for $10 (pre-order discount price).  And you can support a good cause by pre-ordering it now.

You can also call or visit your local bookstore right now and ask them to be sure to stock the book.

If you’re in California, Pennsylvania, Florida, New Mexico, read more

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Bag the Teabagging

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By David Swanson

The Charlottesville Daily Progress’, my local newspaper, like yours, has a resident rightwinger. In this case: Bryan McKenzie (imagine if they had a leftist too, the additional readers they could pick up!). McKenzie, like the guy at your paper, is taking his marching orders from Fox News and promoting a teabagging tax day tea party on April 15th. (In this case: at the Charlottesville Pavilion from 3 to 6 p.m. Wednesday.)

Sadly, those involved in these events across the nation read more

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Ruth Marcus Supports Torture

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By David Swanson

“It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.”
— Albert Camus

Washington Post editorial writer Ruth Marcus has joined the side of the executioners and provided a clear example of how that is respectably done in our time and place.

Her recent column begins:

“Should Bush administration officials be put on trial for crimes such as authorizing torture?”

Assuming that we intend to live in what John Adams called a nation of laws, read more

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Listen to Nicole Sandler on Air America

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Our friend Nicole Sandler is filling in on Air America all this week while some of the regulars go on a cruise. Be sure to let Air America know if you like what you hear. Nicole is on tonight 6-9 pm ET, Thursday 7-9, Friday 8-9, and I will be on with her on Thursday in the 7-8 hour to talk about pardons and prosecutions. Tune in!

And I’m on The Urban Journal today discussing Cheney’s indictment. Take a listen.

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Election Fraud and Wall Street Fraud Explained

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Two radio shows you’ll want to listen to and call into today, Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008,

1. A discussion of election fraud and the lies about ACORN’s supposed voter fraud at 3 p.m. ET on http://www.wakingupinamerica.com

Host Val Kirkgaard, with guests David Swanson and Clint Curtis:

In September of 2000, Clint Curtis was first introduced to Tom Feeney the incoming Speaker of the Florida House. Clint was a programmer at a local computer company whose owner was an associate and confidant read more

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Tonight: Warm Up for the Debate Without Watching the Pundits

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Some artists defy classification. Detroit’s revolutionary soul man and citizen activist, Nadir, rebels against it.

His solo debut Distorted Soul 2.0 was crowned “Best Funk Album of the Year” by Soul-Patrol.com and earned a Detroit Music Award for “Outstanding Urban Funk/Hip-Hop Recording”, after international spins on Urban A/C, Rock, Urban Contemporary and even Smooth Jazz radio.

Slave: The Remixtape, which offers fourteen very different remixes of Nadir’s award-winning composition read more

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Media Criticism of Hate Speech Is Long Overdue

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By David Swanson

I get the impression that a great many people are upset by all the news about McCain-Palin supporters who believe Obama is an Arab, a Muslim, a terrorist, and a baby killer. I find it the most encouraging thing that’s happened in eight years.

Why? Because these sorts of lies and fear-mongering are nothing new. What’s new is that the U.S. corporate media is covering them. The most unaccountable, antidemocratic communications cartel outside of China has decided to read more

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When the Corporate Media Apologizes

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By David Swanson

Of the hundreds of corporate and independent media outlets that falsely claimed this week that ABC News had broken a story about NSA spying that I broke at AfterDowningStreet over a year ago, only the guys at McClatchy (formerly Knight Ridder, the same people who have done better reporting on Iraq than any other corporate journalists) have had the decency to put out a correction, and only the Sacramento Bee has posted (though probably not printed) it:

“A McClatchy Newspapers read more

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That's Religulous

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By David Swanson

According to an Associated Press story on Friday, more than a half-million people have toured the creationism museum in Kentucky since it opened in May 2007. However, at least one of those people was there to make fun of it with a video camera.

In fact, a lot of what Bill Maher’s new film, “Religulous”, does is make fun of people. But by no means does Maher single out fringe religious believers. He interviews one of the few top scientists in the world who read more

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