29 September 2007
Presidential candidates diverge
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David Swanson
There are now two types of Democratic presidential candidates, the ones who promise to end the occupation of Iraq, and the ones who say they may very well keep it going for another four years.

MSNBC hosted another Democratic...
27 September 2007
This hallowed landmark
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Robert Koehler
The New York Daily News, with its long tradition of lurid and stupid headlines, outdid itself in its special welcome for Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last week, warning him: “If you even think of setting foot near Ground Zero, you...
26 September 2007
Observing our government through Blackwater
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David Swanson
Jeremy Scahill, author of a terrific book on the Blackwater mercenary army, spoke in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Tuesday to a packed hall.  He took questions at the end, and one man asked something to the effect of "Why does the...
24 September 2007
We have nothing but fear itself
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David Swanson
A Roseland, Indiana, city council member orders police to remove a fellow city council member.  The police escort him out, shove him down on his face and pound his head. Onlookers either cheer, do nothing, joke, behave as if all were...
21 September 2007
Sanity in tiny nibbles
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Robert Koehler
The abyss between “crime against humanity” and “we’ll have to look into this” may be all but unfathomable — deep as a mass grave — but sometimes we have to trust the process.

I fear that democratic progress is a mouse’s...
20 September 2007
Kerry's sense of timing
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David Swanson
As police officers were torturing a University of Florida student with a taser in the back of a lecture hall as punishment for asking inconvenient questions of Senator John Kerry, the Senator chose not to order them to stop. Rather he...

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