Presidential candidate Barack Obama won the Democratic primary last time around largely on the strength of his extremely limited and inconsistent opposition…
David Swanson
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. An important rule to live by. So is this corollary: Friends…
There are many schemes now for undoing the doctrines under which corporations claim constitutional rights and bribery is deemed constitutionally protected "speech."…
To prevent the U.S. government from behaving like a king, the drafters of the U.S. Constitution empowered an elected legislature to write…
The push to attack Iran has been on for so long that entire categories of arguments for it (such as that the…
Every American should read this letter: December 18, 2007 To: Mr. Randy Waddle, Assistant Inspector General, Ft Carson, Colorado CC: LTC John…
The funny thing about the bill that the Senate just passed that lets presidents and the military lock you up without a…
The Senate just voted against the Afghanistan war. Here's the good, the bad, and the ugly. THE GOOD The U.S. Senate on…
Feints and baby steps in the direction of eventually ending a massive crime are not enough. Hoping to meet a distant deadline…
Weaponized UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), also known as drones, have their own caucus in Congress, and the Pentagon's plan is to give…