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02 February 2010
Don't call it a "defense" budget
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Norman Solomon
This isn't "defense."

The new budget from the White House will push U.S. military spending well above $2 billion a day.

Foreclosing the future of our country should not be confused with defending it....
02 February 2010
Don't call it a
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Norman Solomon
This isn't defense.
The new budget from the White House will push U.S. military spending well above $2 billion a day.
Foreclosing the future of our country should not be confused with defending it.
...
01 February 2010
Congressman Payne: I won't oppose war money because Obama's president
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David Swanson
Congressman Donald Payne (D., N.J.) has voted against war funding bills for years. Last summer he was one of 32 heroes to vote No under intense pressure from the White House to vote Yes. When I asked him a couple of years ago to sign...
30 January 2010
The source of corporate power
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Robert Koehler
“If the First Amendment has any force, it prohibits Congress from fining or jailing citizens, or associations of citizens, for simply engaging in political speech.”

The words are those of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, writing...
29 January 2010
Give to the Congress information of the State of the Union
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David Swanson
Those are the words used in Article II Section 3 of the US Constitution. The president is also to "recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient." Why does this not come up in Article I with all...
28 January 2010
Gone a week and you trash the country
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David Swanson
Wow, I was gone less than a week to the Conch Republic, and now return to a nation in which I would heartily recommend to any city, county, or state that it follow the example of the Florida Keys and secede from the so-called union....

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