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    Dear Representative, The big five oil companies -- BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Shell -- have made over $100 billion in profits so far in 2011. At the same time, these same corporate giants are also receiving billions in taxpayer- …more

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  • by davidswanson November 26, 2011 - 7:49am
    AlterNet / By Bruce E. Levine For those who know war only through television, criminalizing it sounds like proposing to criminalize government. But there was a time when the masses made war illegal.  …more
  • by davidswanson November 25, 2011 - 7:36am
    Book Talk with David Swanson from William Hughes on Vimeo. Recorded by Bill Hughes on the 23rd. …more
  • by Max R. November 23, 2011 - 3:28pm
    Here are some of the thoughtful and passionate letters you sent us recently. Feel free to comment on any of these letters below. If you wrote one of these and want to take credit, don't be shy - we're all friends here! Emily writes: Why is it that …more
  • by davidswanson November 23, 2011 - 10:20am
    Tonight at 6:30 at Busboys and Poets at 14th and V in DC …more
  • by davidswanson November 22, 2011 - 7:45am
    Whistleblowing in our federal government may soon be a thing of the past, not because whistleblowers face more vicious retribution than ever before -- although that is true; and not because important acts of whistleblowing now result in fewer …more
  • by davidswanson November 18, 2011 - 2:17pm
    You walk into a large, bright gallery full of large colorful portraits, portraits of men.  They are fairly ordinary looking men.  They could be from Western Asia or the "Middle East."  You approach one and look at him for an instant. …more