By David Swanson
This week’s sermon is from the book of Luke:
And he said, A certain nation had a son.
And the son said to congress, Congress, give me $560 billion. And Congress gave it.
And not many days after, this son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with vicious slaughter and enrichment of sinful people.
And when he had spent all, there arose a
By David Swanson
Were you aware that…?
A coffee cooperative in Minnesota makes money by creating fair trade and cutting out corporate middlemen.
Family farmers in Vermont survive and prosper by going organic and cooperative.
Health clinics in rural New Mexico are community supported and succeed in ways corporate health care and insurance cannot.
A taxi cab cooperative in Madison, Wisc., run by the cabbies, brings in $6 million per year.
A pharmacist in Austin, Texas, works less and accomplishes
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The first international conference of the World Prout Assembly, entitled, “Building a New World,” committed to ending imperialist wars and affirming models of cooperative, community-based economies and political activism, will be held May 22-25 at Radford University, Radford, Virginia.
World Prout Assembly Founding President Garda Ghista announced: “We seek to bring together activists from all countries fighting for justice in all spheres of life to form one universal coalition
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Dear Wesley,
You’re two today and you’re napping. If you’re dreaming, they’re probably happy dreams. You’re almost always happy awake. Whatever your worst dreams are, they’re probably not worse than what I fear may become of this world and your future in it. You’ve spent your first two years and the nine months before that in a loving family in a beautiful town in a very wealthy country that has shared a little of that wealth with us, though not with
By David Swanson
Donna Edwards worked wonders by nearly beating Al Wynn in a Maryland congressional primary in 2006 and threatening to run again. Wynn had been one of the worst members of Congress and became one of the best. He transformed from a defender of loan sharks to a defender of the little guy. He shifted from backing the invasion and occupation of Iraq to opposing it and attending peace rallies. He was the first to sign onto Congressman Kucinich’s articles of impeachment against
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By David Swanson
How would you like to vote for a political party that sacrifices hundreds of thousands of lives to win elections? Yeah, neither would I. So, how can they be so sure they will win elections?
Of course I’m talking about the Democratic Party’s strategy of continuing to fund the bloody occupation of Iraq.
Or how would you like to support an activist or think-tank organization that obeys the Democratic Party in the same strategy?
I just took part in a media conference call
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By David Swanson
In 2006 we elected a Congress to end the occupation of Iraq. If we don’t hold that Congress to it, we will not have the power in 2008 to elect anyone for any stated purpose. Fulfillment of campaign promises will be entirely optional in 2009. Our last chance to hold the current Congress to its commitment is in the coming month of April, when the House takes up Bush’s request for another $102 billion of our grandchildren’s money.
All over the country, ordinary
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By David Swanson
Wow. All I did was sign this petition http://www.nonviolence.cz opposing the construction of a U.S. “missile defense” base in the Czech Republic, an outpost of our growing empire actually intended for aggressive war, not “defense.” And I got this Email in reply:
“Dear petitioner,
“Thank you for your e-mail and your concern about Czech foreign policy.
“I have already announced that as member of the Senate of Parliament of the Czech Republic
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By David Swanson
Chris Hedges recently published an article called “The Dangerous Atheism of Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris,” ( http://www.alternet.org/rights/80449 ) but he failed to include in it any indication of what he thinks is dangerous about their atheism. He thinks they have horrible political opinions, but does not explain how those relate to atheism. He thinks they have
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