April 2007

Pelosi, Conyers, the People, and Impeachment

By David Swanson

Speech delivered in Portland, Maine, at rally organized by http://www.maineimpeach.org onApril 28th national day of impeachment events organized by http://www.a28.org

I want to thank Maine Impeach dot org for putting this event together. This is a wonderful crowd! The paper on grounds for impeachment drafted by Maine Lawyers for Democracy is incredibly well done: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/me

I spoke earlier today at a rally in Boston, Massachusetts, where one of the other read more

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The GE Presidential Debate

By David Swanson

MSNBC, owned by weapons-maker General Electric, opened Thursday night’s debate with the unavoidable topic of Iraq, and unavoidably allowed each of the eight candidates on the stage to address it. Two of them, Congressman Dennis Kucinich and former Senator Mike Gravel, spoke in favor of ending the war. Kucinich advocated cutting off the funding. Gravel proposed passing a law to make it a felony to remain in Iraq.

Of course, it’s also a felony to spy in violation read more

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Congressman Dennis Kucinich plans to introduce articles of impeachment against Vice President Cheney.

Congressman Dennis Kucinich plans to introduce articles of impeachment against Vice President Cheney. It’s time now for us to follow through by asking the rest of Congress to get on board with the American public, and by letting the media know where we stand.


http://www.impeachcheney.org

Ask your Congress Member to support impeachment proceedings against Vice President Cheney:
http://tinyurl.com/yttnxq

Ask members of the House Judiciary Committee and Speaker Nancy Pelosi to lead, follow, read more

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Happy Springtime (Bush Is Over)

It’s Springtime, a new birth. Music video presented by www.JTMP.ORG and performed by Op-Critical featuring the Harmonic Angels. Imagine Peace! Please see www.BushIsOver.Org , www.A28.Org, and www.AfterdowningStreet.Org to be a part of this rebirth movement! Peace!

Happy Springtime (Bush is Over)

So this is springtime, the years have been dark
The sun is now shining, and love is the spark
So let’s take read more

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War Money in a Frame

By David Swanson

You can’t put a trillion dollars in a frame and hang it on the wall, but if it weren’t for another kind of frame we would never spend this kind of money on war. When we frame the debate over war money with the idea that funding war amounts to “supporting troops,” the debate is constrained to range from funding the war to funding the war more and faster.

If, on the other hand, a debate over funding a war were framed by the idea that what you’re funding read more

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Putting the Gone in Gonzales

How Not to Answer Questions about (in)Justice in America
By David Swanson

When can we put the “consensus” of the senior leadership of the Department of Justice, CSLDJ (pronounced Con Sell Dodge), under oath and ask it questions and then impeach it?

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales assured the Senate Judiciary Committee today that nothing improper has been done and that, in addition, he’s not to blame for it, because he simply obeyed the CSLDJ, although he does not actually remember read more

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Another Path to Peace: The Case for Kucinich

By David Swanson, AfterDowningStreet.org

The Democratic leadership in Congress wants the war to be around in 2008 so that a Democrat can win the White House by “opposing” the war. Congressman Rahm Emanuel has explained this to the Washington Post. The ONLY way to convince the top Democrats that this calculation is wrong is to promote in the presidential primary the only candidate who is trying in every way possible to end the war now. If we do that, the Democrats will understand read more

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Italian Officials in Washington to Oppose New Base

By David Swanson

Did you know that our nation, the land of the free and the home of the brave, has permanent military bases in other countries? And I don’t just mean in Iraq. In fact the United States maintains over 725 bases that our military admits to, with over a half million personnel. Did you know that?

Did you know that most of these bases serve no useful purpose, that many of them are focused on spying and some exist purely to aquire or guard oil? Did you know that people around read more

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Pots, Kettles, and George Will Teaching People to Think

By David Swanson

George Will has pulled a trick out of Karl Rove’s bag and begun attacking his opponents at his own weakest point. In his latest column, Will attempts to teach other people how to think straight. This has to be worth a few guffaws…

“In a campaign without peacetime precedent,” Will begins, “the media-entertainment-environmental complex is warning about global warming. Never, other than during the two world wars, has there been such a concerted effort by read more

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Record of Iraq War Lies to Air April 25 on PBS

By David Swanson

Bill Moyers has put together an amazing 90-minute video documenting the lies that the Bush administration told to sell the Iraq War to the American public, with a special focus on how the media led the charge. I’ve watched an advance copy and read a transcript, and the most important thing I can say about it is: Watch PBS from 9 to 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 25. Spending that 90 minutes on this will actually save you time, because you’ll never watch television read more

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