Political Ideas

Here’s an example of a good political radio show. Take a listen.

By David Swanson

Sarah Palin was right and other shocking facts:

1. Looking only forward leads to a horrifying future
2. Relying only on elections gets us nowhere
3. If we have any chance it is through Congress
4. We don’t need more leadership from the President
5. We don’t need better party discipline
6. We have a monarchy again
7. We need more impeachments and greater use of the Capitol Police
8. Sarah Palin was right
9. No bill is needed read more

By David Swanson

Separating the Midwestern state of Ohio, where soda’s called “pop” and workers are sometimes allowed to unionize, from my East Coast home state of Virginia, where a governor perched on a diseased branch of my own family tree gave the nation its first right-to-work-for-less law, is nothing other than the beautiful and brutal mountains of West Virginia. As you climb those mountains headed west two things plummet to the valleys below: the employment rate and the read more

Please read this excerpt of my new book published at Alternet.

By David Swanson

I’m a progressive and you’re a progressive, but I’m starting to find reason to hope as you’re coming off a giant sugar high and plunging into the deep despair of one betrayed and scorned. What gives?

1. I don’t expect much of elections, whereas you imagine each time, contrary to all preceding evidence, that they create transformative change. If you expect elections alone to do much, then you’re guaranteed to be very excited and then very disappointed, read more

August 30, 2009

Wheaton, Maryland

Join us for the Progressive Picnic in Montgomery County!

When: Sunday August 30, 2009 2:00 PM
Donation: $15.00 per person now, $20 later
Where: 2002 Shorefield Road, Wheaton, MD 20902
Picnic Shelter “G”

Activist/Author David Swanson will discuss and sign his new book Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union. State Senators Jamie Raskin and Paul Pinsky*, Delegates Roger Manno, Tom Hucker, and Ana Sol Gutierrez, Council Members read more

By David Swanson
(with image by Michael Parenti)

Attorney General Eric Holder is addressing a war crime without addressing the wars, and is focusing on the lowest ranking participants in that crime without addressing its status as official policy established by higher ups and openly confessed to by a former president and vice president. This is bad applism, the same approach that has held a handful of recruits responsible for Abu Ghraib, claiming to thereby remove bad apples from a good system. read more

Remeber this on November 9th?

“Transition advisers to President-elect Barack Obama have compiled a list of about 200 Bush administration actions and executive orders that could be swiftly undone….”

Has anyone yet heard what more than a dozen of these could have been? What counts as swift around here?