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Znet Article Swanson: How We Can End the Occupation of Iraq

Znet Article, January, 24 2007 David Swanson
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President George Bush deflects criticism of his war plans by claiming that his critics have no plans of their own.  Vice President Dick Cheney, meanwhile, asserts that matters of war must be left in the hands of the President (presumably no matter...

Znet Article Swanson: Land of Enchantment and Impeachment

Znet Article, January, 14 2007 David Swanson
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There is a decent chance that within the next month or two the New Mexico State Legislature will ask the U.S. House of Representatives to begin impeachment proceedings against President Bush and Vice President Cheney.  And there is the definite p...

Znet Article Swanson: Mr. President, Surge This

Znet Article, January, 11 2007 David Swanson
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Mr. President, Surge This

Znet Article Swanson: Impeachment Anyone?

Znet Article, October, 06 2006 David Swanson
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Impeachment Anyone?

Znet Article Swanson: The Cablization of Network News

Znet Article, September, 03 2006 David Swanson
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The Cablization of Network News

Znet Article Swanson: The Iraq War as a Trophy Photo

Znet Article, June, 14 2006 David Swanson
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An artist should keep a human skull on the desk as a constant reminder of death, of the need to -- in the words of a currently popular country tune -- live like you were dying. A peace activist should keep a photo in his or her wallet of a small I...

Znet Article Swanson: Let's Stay in Iraq Until it's Peaceful or We're Sane, Whichever Comes First

Znet Article, June, 07 2006 David Swanson
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Have you ever heard someone try to argue that the Iraq War was a mistake but that now the proper course is to continue the mistake a bit longer or to carefully end it in a long and complicated way that could take months or years?  Have you ever wo...

Znet Article Swanson: Sweat Shop Workers Tour US Colleges That Sell Their Products

Znet Article, February, 26 2006 David Swanson
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By "It would take half our salary to buy one of the sweat shirts we produce," Josefina Hernandez Ponce told students at the University of Virginia on Wednesday night. The classroom was packed to capacity with students in every seat and squeezed in...

Znet Article Swanson: A Peace Movement Demanding the Rule of Law

Znet Article, January, 08 2006 David Swanson
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Remarks prepared for Out of Iraq event in Washington, D.C., on day of 164 Out of Iraq Events around the country, Jan. 7, 2006. President Nixon famously said that if the President does it, it's legal.  And he didn't think that up on his own â̈́...

Znet Article Swanson: White Phosphorous

Znet Article, December, 27 2005 David Swanson
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The U.S. military used white phosphorous as a weapon in Fallujah, and the U.S. military says such use is illegal.  That's one heck of a fog fact (Larry Beinhart's term for a fact that is neither secret nor known).  This fact has appeared in an art...

Znet Article Swanson: I Can't Wait

Znet Article, November, 03 2005 David Swanson
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I don't know about the world, but certainly I can't wait any longer to end this war or to impeach this president.  One more death, American or Iraqi, is too many. Actually, what I said is not true.  We do know something about the world.  We know ...

Znet Article Swanson: Antiwar Events Leading to September 24

Znet Article, September, 05 2005 David Swanson
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 On September 15, Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey and other congress members will be holding hearings on Capitol Hill on the issue of creating an exit strategy for Iraq. This event will be nine days before what organizers are hoping will be the biggest...

Znet Article Swanson: Yuppies and the Peace Movement

Znet Article, September, 01 2005 David Swanson
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PART 1 The single biggest reason that the peace movement is not larger and more aggressive is that people with one foot in it are focused on trying to be respectable in the eyes of the corporate media, for their own sake and – in their mi...

Znet Article Swanson: Unspinning War

Znet Article, August, 09 2005 David Swanson
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Norman Solomon's new book, "War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death," opens with a disturbing prologue.  The U.S. media has refused to give serious coverage to the Downing Street Memos on the grounds that they are "old ...

Zmag Article Swanson: The Half-Baked Baker Carter Commission

Zmag Article, June, 01 2005 David Swanson
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S o Jimmy Carter and James Baker are sitting at a table and Carter starts talking about the disastrous election of 2000 in Florida—it sounds like the start of a joke, doesn’t it? It was actually the s...

Zmag Article Swanson: Flame-Broiled Shark

Zmag Article, May, 01 2005 David Swanson
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I f someone told you that a bunch of low-income people, most of them African-American or Latino, most of them women, most of them elderly, had been victimized by a predatory mortgage lender that stripped them of much o...

Zmag Article Swanson: Taking Action on Minimum Wage

Zmag Article, April, 01 2005 David Swanson
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T he current federal minimum wage of $5.15 per hour is over 40 percent below the 1968 level adjusted for inflation. A full-time worker taking no vacation or holidays and earning the federal minimum wage earns 55 percen...

Znet Article Swanson: How Predatory Lending Victims Fought Back and Won

Znet Article, March, 20 2005 David Swanson
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If someone told you that a bunch of low-income people, most of them African-American or Latino, most of them women, most of them elderly, had been victimized by a predatory mortgage lender that stripped them of much of their equity or of their ent...

Znet Article Swanson: Nursing Against the Odds: The Workers' View

Znet Article, March, 13 2005 David Swanson
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"Nursing Against the Odds: How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care," by Suzanne Gordon, Cornell University Press, 450 pages. Nurses. Nurses. Nurses. Already I've guaranteed that more...

Znet Article Swanson: Labor at the Crossroads

Znet Article, December, 11 2004 David Swanson
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Labor at the Crossroads

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