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The National Education Association Peace and Justice Caucus has joined 110 other organizations and congressional candidates in opposing any more funding of foreign wars.  While the Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee has stalled further war escalation funding until Congress funds teachers, teachers themselves do not want the war escalation funded at all, and certainly not with school funding used as pretty packaging on the same piece of legislation.

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By David Swanson

The Independent Film Channel is airing a series of four programs this week that illustrate the kind of media we need in this country. The four programs, titled “Fear,” “War,” “Greed,” and “Disaster,” feature the reporting of four independent unembedded journalists: Max Blumenthal, Nir Rosen, Charlie LeDuff, and Andrew Berends. The 30-minute episodes premiere Monday, May 24 through Thursday, May 27 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT.

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For today’s five dollar friday I’ve given $5 to http://www.thiscantbehappening.net

This site has been expanded from Dave Lindorff’s unequaled blog to a news and blog site with four contributors: Lindorff, Charles Young, John Grant, and Linn Washington. And their writing is phenomenal.

For today’s Five Dollar Friday I’m going to give $5 to MayFirst, because tomorrow is May first, and because the world’s best, most ethical, most progressive, most visionary internet service provider actually knows the meaning of May first. Check out http://mayfirst.org. These are the people who helped me start a website within 5 hours of Cindy Sheehan camping out at Bush’s “ranch” and telling me she wanted a website. These read more

By David Swanson

ACORN is shutting down because of a fraudulent video pimped by the corporate media. U.S. forces in Afghanistan have heroically laid seige to and conquered a fictional city, helping build the case for further escalation. A cable news channel has created a right-wing mass movement by pretending it already existed. Congressman Dennis Kucinich voted for a health insurance bill he believed would deprive more people of healthcare (and wealth and homes), because fraudulent reports read more

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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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is behind the worst of U.S. policies, from blocking the right to organize to impeding healthcare reform, from increasing global warming to arguing in favor of the Supreme Court’s impending decision to allow no limits on corporate funding of elections, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the enemy of the public will.

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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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