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David Swanson

Activist and Author, War Is a Lie

May 5th, 2013

Some Don't Pay Their War Taxes

This past Saturday morning felt like mid-winter in Asheville, North Carolina, but was actually some weeks past tax day, and dozens of people were gathered in front of a federal building to say something about what federal income taxes are used for -- something much more unusual than one would ... continue reading

Carl Gibson

USUncut

May 4th, 2013

What Do the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Al-Qaeda Have in Common?

Crossposted from Reader Supported News Answer: Both aren't above killing people to attain their goals. In 2009, Congress considered a bill that would have strengthened safety standards at fertilizer plants like the one that recently exploded in West, Texas, killing dozens of first responders and leveling a nearby middle school ... continue reading

Laurel Krause

Director, Kent State Truth Tribunal

May 3rd, 2013

Allison Stood for PEACE & Against the Vietnam War on May 4, 1970

Allison Beth Krause, my sister, was one of four students killed in the May 4th Kent State Massacre. On May 4, 1970 joining millions of young Americans, Allison stood for peace and against the Vietnam War. Allison protested against the military occupation of her Kent State University campus. More than ... continue reading

Donna Smith

Single-Payer Advocate

May 3rd, 2013

Health Care Mayday! In Colorado – Leading Health Advocacy Group Calls for Action

It’s May.  It’s American Bike Month, Asparagus Month, Asthma & Allergy Awareness Month, Better Hearing & Speech Month, Flower Month, National Bar-B-Que Month, National Egg Month, National Duckling Month, National Hamburger Month, National Mental Health Month, National Salad Month, National Photo Month, National Physical Fitness and Sports Month, National Strawberry ... continue reading

Ellen Cantarow

Journalist

May 2nd, 2013

The Downwinders: Fracking Ourselves to Death in Pennsylvania

Crossposted from TomDispatch More than 70 years ago, a chemical attack was launched against Washington State and Nevada. It poisoned people, animals, everything that grew, breathed air, and drank water. The Marshall Islands were also struck. This formerly pristine Pacific atoll was branded “the most contaminated place in the world.” ... continue reading

Donna Smith

Single-Payer Advocate

May 2nd, 2013

Health Care Injustice in America – Painful Reality

It is terrifying to live on the edge of health care and financial ruin in America. And it is so unnecessary. I read in the New York Times yesterday that President Obama wasn't awfully worried about health insurance costs rising under the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) because only about 10 to 15 percent ... continue reading

Jesse Lava

Criminal Justice Activist

May 2nd, 2013

Would a White Girl Be Prosecuted for a Botched Science Experiment?

By now you've probably heard about Kiera Wilmot, the 16-year-old Florida girl who botched a science experiment with a plastic bottle and toilet cleaner. The bottle ended up exploding, and though no one was hurt and no property damaged, Kiera was expelled from high school and is now being prosecuted ... continue reading

Crystal Zevon

Author

May 1st, 2013

SEARCHING FOR OCCUPY: We All Live Downstream

I am sitting in a cafe in Rapid City, South Dakota on the Pine Ridge Reservation, early for my interview with Charmaine White Face.  I watched the riveting, heartbreaking and informative film "Red Cry" for the second time last night to prepare for this interview.  I also studied the very ... continue reading

Eduardo Galeano

Author/Journalist

May 1st, 2013

The Life and Death of Words, People, and Even Nature

Crossposted from TomDispatch [The following passages are excerpted from Eduardo Galeano’s new book, Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History (Nation Books).] Memory on Legs(January 3) On the third day of the year 47 BC, the most renowned library of antiquity burned to the ground. After Roman legions invaded Egypt, ... continue reading

David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz

Public Health Specialists

April 29th, 2013

You Are a Guinea Pig: How Americans Became Exposed to Biohazards in the Greatest Uncontrolled Experiment Ever Launched

A hidden epidemic is poisoning America.  The toxins are in the air we breathe and the water we drink, in the walls of our homes and the furniture within them.  We can’t escape it in our cars.  It’s in cities and suburbs.  It afflicts rich and poor, young and old.  ... continue reading

David Swanson

Activist and Author, War Is a Lie

April 29th, 2013

The Revolution That's Not Being Televised

Hundreds gathered in Dallas to reject the Bush Lie Bury, and three went to jail.  I flew from Dallas to Syracuse, where hundreds protested Obama's drone-murder program, and 32 went to jail and are still there (and will stay until trial unless bail can be raised) -- some of them ... continue reading

Carl Gibson

USUncut

April 26th, 2013

Austerity: Planned Poverty

If a math textbook that never underwent an official academic review and was proven to contain basic factual inaccuracies were nonetheless used by an entire school to teach math, wouldn't it be fair to say that all of that school's graduates were incapable of doing math? Wouldn't it make more ... continue reading

Donna Smith

Single-Payer Advocate

April 26th, 2013

Congressional ‘Obamacare’ Issues Beg the Questions that Single-Payer Answers

In recent days, many of us have read and tried to follow the reports that Congressional offices are engaged in discussions about how to make sure their health insurance coverage available under the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) remains affordable for Congresspersons and their staff members.  If you’d like to read more ... continue reading

Dr. Jen Gunter

OB/GYN

April 24th, 2013

Gosnell case not about abortion, it’s about how the desperate and disadvantaged get care

Kermit Gosnell is on trial for providing grossly negligent care to many women culminating in the death of at least one. He is also accused of performing late term abortions past the point of legality. The pictures in the press look like most of his patients (or the economically disadvantaged ... continue reading

Tom Engelhardt

TomDispatch

April 24th, 2013

Filling the Empty Battlefield: Jeremy Scahill, Blowback Reporter

Chalmers Johnson’s book Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire was published in March 2000 -- and just about no one noticed.  Until then, blowback had been an obscure term of CIA tradecraft, which Johnson defined as “the unintended consequences of policies that were kept secret from the American people.”  In ... continue reading

Wendell Potter

Corporate Whistleblower and Author

April 23rd, 2013

The Higher Health Insurers' Claim Denial Rate, the Higher the CEO Pay

When you're shopping for health insurance, wouldn't it be great if you could find out every insurer's claim denial rate? And how much each one spent on lobbying and advertising -- and how much they paid their CEO? You can now find all of that information and more if you ... continue reading

Mike Ferner

Veterans for Peace

April 23rd, 2013

A Tale of Two Tragedies

On April 15, 29 year-old Krystle Campbell, Lu Lingzi, 23 and Martin Richard, 8, left home to watch runners cross the finish line in the Boston Marathon.  They and their families thought they would return that day as always.  But they never did.  As the world now knows, Krystle, Lu ... continue reading

David Swanson

Activist and Author, War Is a Lie

April 23rd, 2013

Dallas Morning News Claims Bush Never Lied

George W. Bush should be given an indictment, not a library.  An online email action is letting the Department of Justice know the facts about the former president.  And the People's Response to the George W. Bush Library and Policy Institute is filling the streets of Dallas with protesters this ... continue reading

Erika Eichelberger

Journalist

April 22nd, 2013

House of Horrors: Violence on the Home Front

Crossposted from TomDispatch Since the Newtown massacre, visions of unfathomable crazy mass killers and armed strangers in the night have colonized the American mind. Proposed laws have been drawn up that would keep potential mass murderers from getting their hands on assault weapons and high-capacity clips, or that would stop hardened criminals ... continue reading

Michael Klare

Professor, Energy Expert

April 21st, 2013

Entering a Resource-Shock World: How Resource Scarcity and Climate Change Could Produce a Global Explosion

Crossposted from TomDispatch Brace yourself. You may not be able to tell yet, but according to global experts and the U.S. intelligence community, the earth is already shifting under you.  Whether you know it or not, you’re on a new planet, a resource-shock world of a sort humanity has never ... continue reading

Mélida Arredondo

Peace Activist

April 19th, 2013

Stay in Place Order Issued – Pray in Place Order Issued

This morning I woke and turned on the radio as I entered the bathroom.  The local news was reporting that the two suspects had struck again by robbing a 711 convenience store in Central Square, Cambrdge.  Then there was a shootout.  One MIT security guard was shot as well as ... continue reading

Coleen Rowley

FBI Whistleblower

April 19th, 2013

Chechen Terrorists and the Neocons

I almost choked on my coffee listening to neoconservative Rudy Giuliani pompously claim on national TV that he was surprised about any Chechens being responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings because he’s never seen any indication that Chechen extremists harbored animosity toward the U.S.; Guiliani thought they were only focused ... continue reading

David Swanson

Activist and Author, War Is a Lie

April 18th, 2013

Vile, Filthy, Bloody, Dirty Wars

Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, has a new book that should be required reading for Congress members, journalists, war supporters, war opponents, Americans, non-Americans -- really, pretty much everybody.  The new book is called Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield.Of ... continue reading

Jon Schwarz

MichaelMoore.com

April 18th, 2013

Rick Perry to Illinois Businesses: "Your Situation Is Not Unlike a Burning Building on the Verge of Collapse"

This seems like it must be made up, but it's not. Just days ago, Texas Governor Rick Perry wrote an open letter to Illinois business owners saying this: If you’re a business owner in Illinois, I want to express my admiration for your ability to survive in an environment that, ... continue reading

Nathan Fuller

BradleyManning.org

April 17th, 2013

16 years for espionage, life in jail for whistleblowing

April 17, 2013 Bradley Manning reading his statement on his motives. Sketch by Clark Stoeckley, Bradley Manning Support Network. Spc. William Millay, a 25-year-old military policeman, was sentenced yesterday to 19 years in jail, a sentence reduced to 16 years after a plea deal, minus time served, for attempting to ... continue reading

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RT @wastedsummers: @MMFlint Lots of people assuming Kanye meant new in the sense of recent, he means new in the sense of post-legal America…

May 19th
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"@Myrone07: Yes he did!! They'll be mad once they run the tape again. Watch & see." I agree. West Coast-u will not see(onTV)what we just saw

May 19th
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RT @marionbarryjr: @MMFlint Not "new". The slavery loophole has been active since the passage of 13th amend. We need to take profit out of …

May 19th
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RT @PleasureDanger: @MMFlint except...it's not new....the racist prison industrial complex has been locking up black/brown ppl in dispropor…

May 19th
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Wow. Kanye! Did that just air on TV? Amazing. "We da new slave." #SNL (CCA = Correction Corporation of America - the private prison system)

May 19th
12:48 AM
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So it turns out the War on Terror is never going to end: http://t.co/SWMx4HKjmI Why? See Fahrenheit 9/11: http://t.co/3G3PqrrMNo

May 18th
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Great time last night on Bill Maher (& @galifianakisz !). Sat next to good-looking brainiacs S.E Cupp & Andrew Ross Sorkin. May've worn off.

May 18th
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Going on Bill Maher in 20 min! HBO. Live.

May 17th
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Tonight! It's yours truly & Zach Galifianakis on Bill Maher, 10pm ET/PT (rerun at 11:30pm ET/PT) on HBO (corrected times)

May 17th
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If you haven't seen it, please read about Chris Heyman, 17, & his parents' decision to release photos of his murder http://t.co/CcxEkiBXvu

May 17th
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In case you missed it, here's the podcast I did with Jeff Garlin from Curb Your Enthusiasm: http://t.co/Dp4zJRnu1x

May 17th
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A great finale episode to The Office tonight. Thanks to all who worked on this show. Can't wait to see what u each do next. #TheOffice

May 17th
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RT @BaselYHamdan Bowling For Columbine II is practically writing itself: http://t.co/wuCNU5YJRc

May 15th
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RT @PubliiusClodius: @mmflint ....Just walked to the kitchen and back....it was epic...

May 13th
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RT @MaryJDavis007: @MMFlint Thanks to you, I'm walking 1-5 miles a day instead of taking cabs and buses. I'd forgotten how much fun it is t…

May 13th
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RT @Winzipper: @MMFlint just done my first one hour walk here in England. Thanks for giving me the incentive Mike.

May 13th
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If you read just one thing today, please read this (also, everyone should stop using the benign word "austerity"): http://t.co/veOvKkS26Z

May 13th
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"Parks and Rec's" @Nick_Offerman, live via Skype on the screen @ the showing of his film in our State Theatre tonight in TraverseCity, MI!

May 13th
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RT @seabeeWWII: @MMFlint I celebrated my 86th birthday by marking 130 miles since the first of the year thanks to your encouragement.

May 13th
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RT @johnshoots: @MMFlint Just got back from a 1 hour walk, thanks for the encouragement. Planning to walk every night this week. #iwalkwit

May 13th
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Tonight! It's yours truly and Zach Galifianakis on Bill Maher, 10 PM ET/PT (rerun at 11:30 PM ET/PT) on HBO. HBO: Real Time with Bill Maher: Homepage...

May 17th
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ICYMI -- It's time to re-up our walks! Got the flu in March & that threw off my routine. Decided to get back at it. Join me! We're on twitter at...

May 16th
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The Deepening Shame of Guantanamo ...by Ray McGovern www.michaelmoore.com We have been spared hearings on how 86 of the remaining 166 prisoners at Guantanamo...

May 16th
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I just signed this, and hope you will too: Urge NYT Public Editor to Investigate Biased Reporting on Venezuela & Honduras | NYTimes eXaminer...

May 15th
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My Breasts and My Life Not as Valuable as Angelina's ...by Donna Smith www.michaelmoore.com What of the women like me who do not have insurance or enough...

May 14th
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Daily Kos: Thomas Friedman, private eye www.dailykos.com Click to embiggen

May 14th
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The first Mother's Day in 1870, proclaimed by Julia Ward Howe (author of Battle Hymn of the Republic), was a call for peace and disarmament: ...

May 12th
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The workers of Chicago's Republic Windows & Doors, seen during their 2008 sit down strike in 'Capitalism: A Love Story,' just opened a new...

May 12th
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It's time to re-up our walks! Got the flu in March & that threw off my routine. Decided to get back at it today. Join me! We're on twitter at...

May 11th
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Please check out this post from Cathy Youngblood, a housekeeper at the Hyatt Andaz in West Hollywood, and the campaign she's a part of, Hyatt Hurts:
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May 10th
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The workers of Chicago's Republic Windows & Doors, seen here during their 2008 sit down strike in 'Capitalism: A Love Story,' are opening a...

May 9th
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Michael Moore touts Mayor Bloomberg’s gun control campaign: ‘It’s wonderful!’ www.nydailynews.com Michael Moore isn't known for his high praise of...

May 8th
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Ribbon cut on new downtown movie theater www.amny.com Filmmakers Michael Moore and Morgan Spurlock Tuesday welcomed the arrival of an all-documentary theater...

May 8th
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'And Then There Was One: Imperial Gigantism and the Decline of Planet Earth' ...by Tom Engelhardt www.michaelmoore.com

May 7th
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Reminder: The U.S. Government Lies About Who Uses Chemical Weapons in the Mideast ...by Jon Schwarz www.michaelmoore.com The State Department guy who lied in...

May 6th
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From This Modern World: Daily Kos: Threat assessment www.dailykos.com Click to embiggen

May 6th
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RootsAction | Nominees for Worst Government Official act.rootsaction.org Here come three new Obama nominees, and they could all be nominees in a contest for...

May 6th
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Donna Smith, seen in 'SiCKO' and a contributor to MichaelMoore.com, has a new blog: Donna SiCKO's Blog donnasicko.blogspot.com

May 5th
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Bill Maher Slams Hype Over Boston Bombing Case Don't Let Terrorist 'F-ck-Ups' Scare Us www.youtube.com Bill Maher closed out his show tonight...

May 4th
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Health Care Injustice in America – Painful Reality ...by Donna Smith www.michaelmoore.com So, how did I get myself to the place where I do not have coverage?

May 2nd
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Top Economist Unloads On Wall Street & White House - HuffPost Live live.huffingtonpost.com Economist and Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs...

May 2nd
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The Pope Called One Of The Foundations Of The Global Capitalism System 'Slavery' www.businessinsider.com Pope Rips Bangladesh Slave Labor

May 2nd
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Ten Years Ago: Bush Declared 'Mission Accomplished'—and the Media Swooned | The Nation www.thenation.com Today marks the tenth anniversary of...

May 1st
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The Life and Death of Words, People, and Even Nature ...by Eduardo Galeano www.michaelmoore.com The following passages are excerpted from Eduardo Galeano’s...

May 1st
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RootsAction.org | Bradley Manning's Nobel Peace Prize act.rootsaction.org Whistleblower Bradley Manning has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize....

Apr 30th
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O'Connor questions court's decision to take Bush v. Gore www.chicagotribune.com "Maybe the court should have said, 'We're not going...

Apr 29th
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Filmmaker Michael Moore salutes librarians at Michigan Notable Books event www.detroitnews.com Michael Moore used his keynote speech at the Library of...

Apr 28th
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Chris Heyman's mother and father decided to release photographs from the scene of their son's death in 2004 by gun violence after reading my letter...

Apr 27th
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WARNING: Graphic image. Brishell's mother Nardyne has released a photograph taken of her daughter after she was killed by gun violence in 2010. Why we...

Apr 26th
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Dying Iraq War Veteran Reflects On Bush Legacy - HuffPost Live live.huffingtonpost.com As the George W. Bush Presidential Library & Museum officially...

Apr 25th
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