13 July 2011
Investigate Rupert Murdoch
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Timothy Karr, Campaign Director, Free Press, www.freepress.net
Rupert Murdoch and other News Corporation executives are at the center of a shocking British media scandal that involves spying, bribery, corruption, a corporate cover-up and even murder.

We need to know if this media giant’s...
12 July 2011
Years later: Human Rights Watch announces that Bush and Cheney tortured -- What gives?
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David Swanson
Statutes of limitations for torture not resulting in death have passed. The DOJ has refused to prosecute 99 of 101 cases of torture-to-death that it looked at. Obama has long since publicly told the DOJ not to prosecute the CIA for torture...
09 July 2011
The "There's Plenty of Money Act of 2012"
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David Swanson
112th CONGRESS
1st Session
To highly resolve that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the United States of America.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 12, 2011...
07 July 2011
We just stopped Congress from giving the power of war to presidents
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David Swanson
"What's the point?" "We never win!" "Why bother trying?"
This time we won.
This is the point. Congressman Buck McKeon and Senator John McCain proposed to give Obama and all future presidents dramatically expanded powers...
05 July 2011
A July Fourth shame on the founders
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Ray McGovern
Yes, that was I standing before the U.S. Embassy in Athens on the eve of the July Fourth weekend holding the American flag in the distress mode — upside down.

Indignities experienced by me and my co-guests on “The Audacity of...
04 July 2011
King George III won: Happy Fourth of July!
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David Swanson
The Declaration of Independence is best remembered as a declaration of war, a war declared on the grounds that we wanted our own flag. The sheer stupidity and anachronism of the idea serves to discourage any thoughts about why Canada didn...

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