Breaking Media's Military Budget 'Taboo'
David Swanson comments (OpEd News, 10/27/08) on Rep. Barney Frank "having just blurted out the obvious but taboo fact that the U.S. military budget must be cut": When a Congress member steps forward...
View ArticleBush Lie Lives On as Pro-Torture Spin Point
David Swanson has noted (Consortium News, 4/23/09) that, as "much of elite U.S. punditry is backing away from torture," the Boston Globe's Jeff Jacoby is bucking that trend with an April 22 column in...
View ArticleAs Good as It Gets on Corporate TV
It is quite telling that, even considering how in Ed Schultz's May 7 MSNBC interview of Physician for a National Health Program Margaret Flowers and Sen. Debbie Stabenow, he "slaps a gratuitous insult...
View ArticleHealthcare Deficit: Bad; War Deficit: Good
Activist David Swanson (AfterDowningStreet.org, 6/24/09) has some problems with House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer's and Congressmember Tom Perriello's recent visit "generating a story and big color...
View ArticlePolitical Prosecutions Bumped by Death, Sex
Addressing Bush-era Department of Justice investigations, David Swanson (6/26/09) is asking OpEd News readers the provocative question, "Did you know the United States has in recent years prosecuted...
View ArticleBig Media 'Worth More Than a Warm Bucket of Spit?'
Having recently "published a report on 1,200 photos of U.S. torture that I have examined but the public at large has not seen," activist David Swanson (AfterDowningStreet.org, 7/21/09) now relates how...
View ArticleHealthcare One of 'Two Human Rights We Lack'
David Swanson (OpEd News, 7/22/09) has "another name for 'what's called a single-payer system'"–namely: "healthcare as a human right, not a commodity to be purchased. Many humans have this right. They...
View ArticleThe Disproportionate Compassions of Corporate Media
Seeing all the press attention given to pitbull-fighter and NFL star Michael Vick's return to football, David Swanson (AfterDowningStreet.org, 8/19/09) can't help but think that Vick should have...
View ArticleBig Media Shares Insurers''Corrupting Influence'
Having on its debut dethroned Glenn Beck from Amazon's bestseller rankings to become "the No. 1 nonfiction book in all categories," David Swanson's Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming...
View ArticlePentagon Budgets and Fuzzy Math
By the tone of some of the media coverage, you might have thought Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced a plan to slash military spending yesterday. On the front page of USA Today (1/27/12), under...
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