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We Need Government Funded Media
02/07/2010 David Swanson
What it would have cost us to publicly fund independent media that would have prevented the invasion of Iraq wouldn't amount, in a year, to what we spend on a month of occupying that country.
JSF as a Metaphor for Defense Meltdown
02/02/2010 Chuck Spinney
The recent publication of the 2010 QDR reveals once again, in typically leaden and mind-numbing prose, how the Pentagon is incapable of coming to grips with the mismatches among strategy, programs, and resources
Reflections on Change, Leadership and the Opportunity of this Moment
02/02/2010 Bill Moyer
The silver lining in the Supreme Court cloud of Corporate Free Speech and Personhood is that the offensive and until this moment obscure notion of corporate personhood has been illuminated.
Blocking War Funding Just Got Easier
02/01/2010 David Swanson
Last June we were handed an opportunity to block the funding of our illegal, murderous, counterproductive, catastrophic, and hated wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The president insisted on an off-the-books "emergency supplemental" bill, and the Senate added an IMF bailout to the bill, leading all the Republicans in the House to commit what for years they'd called treason: they all voted No on war money.
Rep Delahunt Backs War to Please Obama
02/01/2010 David Swanson
Add Congressman Bill Delahunt to the list of misrepresentatives who claim to oppose wars when a Republican is president but agree to support them when a Democrat moves into the White House.
Now We Impeach Jay Bybee
01/30/2010 David Swanson
No one disputes that Jay Bybee's name is at the bottom of memos that were, and to some extent still are, treated as laws which legalized aggressive war at the pleasure of a president and a variety of acts of torture. For many months the House Judiciary Committee has had two excuses for not impeaching Judge Bybee, even while proceeding with the impeachments of a judge for groping and another judge for petty corruption.
