Audio: David Swanson and Coy Barefoot on Debt and Delusions
Audio: David Swanson and Coy Barefoot on Debt and Delusions Read More » Move the Budget Debate to One of Those Democracies We're Bombing into PlaceImagine how radically different the current debate over the Giant Debt Ceiling Monster would look if we moved it to one of those nations we’re bombing into a democracy. Imagine us all still U.S. residents with the same views we have now, but imagine that our representatives in Washington, D.C., were obliged to give a damn what we thought. Back on January 3rd, Americans expressed their first choice Move the Budget Debate to One of Those Democracies We're Bombing into Place Read More » Going Neutral on Obama? Not on a Moving Train!How often have we been told that we can’t have a serious nonviolent movement resisting our government’s destructive path as long as the Democrats are better than the Republicans? How often have we been told that we can’t back third-party candidates as long as the Democrats are better than the Republicans? This week has seen an inordinate number of realizations that the Democrats are as bad as or worse than the Republicans. And what has the response been? Activist groups are proposing Going Neutral on Obama? Not on a Moving Train! Read More » The There's Plenty of Money Act of 2012112th CONGRESS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the Start Doing Our Damn Jobs Act of 2012. SEC. 2. STOP KILLING PEOPLE (a) The combined appropriations of the Department of Defense, The There's Plenty of Money Act of 2012 Read More » Killing Old People Is Fiscally Responsible“The fiscal good has to outweigh the pain,” a nameless Democrat told the Washington Post regarding President Obama’s latest proposal to massively cut Social Security, against the wishes of the vast majority of Americans, in order to fund a military 670% larger than the next largest in the world, keep in place tax cuts for billionaires, Killing Old People Is Fiscally Responsible Read More » US Mayors Say: Bring War Money Home!The U.S. Conference of Mayors has just done something it hasn’t done since Vietnam, passing a resolution that supports efforts to speed up the ending of our current wars and calls on the President and Congress to “bring these war dollars home to meet vital human needs.” Ask Congress and the President to listen. Events are snowballing. The President is about to announce whether he will violate his commitment to a significant withdrawal from Afghanistan in July. The House of Representatives US Mayors Say: Bring War Money Home! Read More » Credit Mayor Dave NorrisUnless Rahm Emanuel talks them out of it over the weekend, come Monday the US Conference of Mayors will vote to pass its first resolution since Vietnam calling for the end of war and the re-allocation of all that money to something useful. Here’s the New York Times: The first mayor to sign onto this resolution other than the original sponsor Antonio Villaraigosa of Los Angeles was Charlottesville, Va.’s Dave Norris. Norris signed on Credit Mayor Dave Norris Read More » Congress Finally Finds Its PurseFor years there was debate on Capitol Hill over whether or not Congress could end a war by cutting off the funding. Despite the Constitution’s clarity, and the clarity of numerous precedents, Senator Russ Feingold was obliged to hold hearings to explain to his colleagues what the power of the purse is. That debate is over. Those who pretended for years they didn’t have the power to cut off the dollar spigot have dropped the pretense. Now it’s purely about whether they have Congress Finally Finds Its Purse Read More » |