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    Dear President Obama, I am writing to your re-election campaign because I want to support you in 2012 - but you cannot win without an Emergency Jobs Bill to hire millions of Americans immediately. 14 million Americans are completely unemployed and …more
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  • How to Be a Thinking Feeling American
    by davidswanson August 30, 2011 - 9:07am
    Alan Grayson says "This is a textbook for a college-level course on what it means to be a thinking, feeling American.  I recommend it to everyone with a head and heart." He's talking about this book: http://planamerica.org  It's called " …more

  • Audio: David Swanson and Coy Barefoot on the Military Industrial Complex
    by davidswanson August 29, 2011 - 5:12pm
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  • Drowning Government in a Hurricane (Why Wait for a Bathtub?)
    by davidswanson August 27, 2011 - 9:16am
    "Shrinking government" in American political discourse has, for decades now, meant the following. We enlarge the government's budget through taxation and penalties on working people and through borrowing and printing money. We not only tax the …more

  • Military Industrial Complex Conference Adds Speakers
    by davidswanson August 22, 2011 - 7:23am
    The Military Industrial Complex at 50 is adding speakers and participants.  The lowest rate for registering ends September 1st, so register now:http://warisacrime.org/registermic New speakers: Robert Naiman is Policy Director at Just …more

  • Jobs Not Stimulus
    by Bob Fertik August 18, 2011 - 12:48pm
    As the global economy grinds to a halt, progressive "pundits" are driving me crazy by equating a Keynesian "stimulus" with jobs. They are not the same thing. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was a $787 billion "stimulus." It was …more

  • Panetta's Weak Case for Potential Military Weakness
    by davidswanson August 17, 2011 - 9:16am
    Leon Panetta, who holds the position that we used to more usefully call "Secretary of War," makes a weak case.  Panetta considers $350 billion over 10 years, or $35 billion per year, to be serious cuts to the national security budget.  …more
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