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28 November 2008
You cannot pardon a crime you authorized
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David Swanson
Statement from the Steering Committee for the Prosecution for War Crimes of President Bush and His Subordinates

Never before has a president pardoned himself or his subordinates for crimes he authorized. The closest thing to...
28 November 2008
The ghosts of Desert Storm
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Robert Koehler
Seventeen years and three wars later, the ghosts of Operation Desert Storm — the cancers, the chronic headaches and dizziness, the fibromyalgia, the ALS and so much more that have stalked returning vets, whose medical claims have been...
25 November 2008
The Ideology of no ideology
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Norman Solomon
On Friday, columnist David Brooks informed readers that Barack Obama’s picks “are not ideological.” The incoming president’s key economic advisers “are moderate and thoughtful Democrats,” while Hillary Clinton’s foreign-policy views “are...
22 November 2008
History IS SCREAMING
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Robert Koehler
Nobody opines sagely anymore that the races will never get along, calmly ladling conventional certainties over the earnest idealism of civil-rights activists. But we live in a world so permeated with militarized fear of demagogic leaders...
16 November 2008
What if labor opposed war?
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David Swanson
I think the peace movement and every justice movement in the United States should simply overwhelm Congress members during the next two months with one and only one demand: Pass the Employee Free Choice Act in January. This is, of course,...
13 November 2008
What does Iran have to do with your town? Here's what it has to do with mine
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David Swanson
At the Charlottesville City Council's October 6th meeting, a group of citizens organized by the Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice, urged the Council to take up at its November meeting a resolution opposing a U.S. attack on...

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