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15 January 2007
If Beal Street Could Talk – Part 1
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David Swanson
Bush's Escalation Speech
Remarks at the National Conference for Media Reform in Memphis, Tenn., January 13, 2007.

I'd like to request that nobody shout during this event, and I'll tell you why.  I watched Bush's speech...
15 January 2007
If Beal Street Could Talk – Part 2
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David Swanson
Impeach Disney and General Electric
Remarks at the National Conference for Media Reform in Memphis, Tenn., January 13, 2007.

By any serious standard of journalism, impeachment should be in the news right now.  This...
15 January 2007
Bush hawks war "surge" to hostile Congress and nation
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Alexander Cockburn
A make-or-break speech by a beleagured American president is usually preceded by a demonstration of American might somewhere on the planet, and the run-up to Bush's address last night was no exception. The AC-130 U.S. gunship that...
11 January 2007
Why do we need a national conference for media reform?
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David Swanson
Here's why.

Bush just connected Iraq to 9-11 again, and the media will not tell you it was a lie.

Bush just gave a list of reasons why this time his escalation of the war will work. The reasons amounted to:...
11 January 2007
Stand up against the surge
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Molly Ivins
The purpose of this old-fashioned newspaper crusade to stop the war is not to make George W. Bush look like the dumbest president ever. People have done dumber things. What were they thinking when they bought into the Bay of Pigs fiasco?...
10 January 2007
A different story
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Robert Koehler
Back to Saddam one last time, and his trial and death, and the strong possibility - indeed, the common-sense conclusion - that part of the point of the charade was to silence him.

Why else try him only for his earliest crimes...

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