November 2007

Cal Thomas: Racist Extraordinaire

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By David Swanson

Cal Thomas, in his November 30th column, fears “America’s destruction,” citing two dangers in passing and focusing on a third. The two that I fear (global warming and nuclear war) are not mentioned. Rather, Thomas fears that our military (although by far the largest the planet has ever seen) is too small. He fears that the dollar will be abandoned by foreign governments (hence, perhaps, the need for an even larger military?). And he fears that immigrants are, read more

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Kucinich Town Hall Meeting on Impeachment Televised Live Tonight

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Broadcast available throughout New Hampshire and nationally

MANCHESTER, NH – Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich has been crisscrossing the state of New Hampshire for more than a week, but tonight he’ll be reaching hundreds of thousands of citizens all at once when Manchester Community Access Media broadcasts a live town hall meeting here beginning at 8 pm ET.

The special broadcast from the MCAM studios, 540 Commercial Street, is being made available to community access read more

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Kucinich in Charlottesville

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Dennis Kucinich in Charlottesville VA on Friday, December 7th.

Central Virginia, home to Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, and the father of our Constitution, James Madison, will be the site of a rally for a presidential candidate working to defend that Constitution.

The creators of our government intended the Congress to be the most powerful branch of it, and provided as a defense of that power the impeachment process. Central to their thinking was concern that an unchecked executive could take read more

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Nukes' Seventh Decade

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By David Swanson

Jonathan Schell’s latest book “The Seventh Decade” places our current situation in the context of the past 62 years of the nuclear age, or the past 68 years as Schell might prefer to date it. It was 68 years ago that scientists concluded a nuclear bomb was possible. Scientists and politicians immediately began trying to develop nukes out of fear that someone else would do so first. And as soon as nukes had been developed in one country, spies began passing read more

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The Trouble with Thankfulness

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By David Swanson

Like most Americans, I’m appreciative of all the wonderful people and experiences in my life, and I like the idea of taking a day off from lamenting all the painful, tragic, and humiliating experiences in my life and the many more in the lives of so many people around the world impacted by my government (even if we are now losing an innocent life in Iraq alone at the rate of one every 10 minutes, or 144 in the day I take off to “be thankful”).

And in fact, I never read more

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Two Chances to Change the World

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We’re headed rapidly toward a disastrous attack on Iran, an acceptance of permanent occupation of Iraq, over 1,000 US military bases in other people’s countries, and the point of no turning back on global warming.

No matter how deeply your television has ingrained into your head the anti-democratic notion that the candidates you like and the candidates you should support are two different things, you can still use the money-soaked corrupt primary system we have to impact Congress immediately read more

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