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Annual Veterans for Peace Convention – Resilience, Resistance, and Non-Violent Revolution

For four days, veterans and families enjoyed a robust schedule featuring eco-friendly sight-seeing, film-viewing, socializing, and activist-focused training and networking. The stimulating agenda and the ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/swilton/44 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:59:21 J’Accuse – Huffington Post, August 9, 2011

Michael Brenner, Senior Fellow, TransAtlantic Relations – University of Pittsburgh

America's situation today bears some resemblance to Emile Zola's passionate denunciation of the persecution of Major Alfred Dreyfus by bigoted, ancien régime leaders of... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/swilton/43 Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:19:45 Peace, environmental, social justice activists launch massive peaceful demonstration beginning October 6, 2011.


OPEN LETTER: THE U.S. OCTOBER 2011 MOVEMENT STANDS IN SOLIDARITY WITH OUR GLOBAL ALLIES
Inspired by the courageous, nonviolent uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Greece, S... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/swilton/42 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 09:58:33
The Deadening Silence

Propaganda, fear, special Interests and distractions form an unholy alliance to mute criticism from US engagement in so many foreign interventions that are morally harmful to humanity and to US domestic interests.
• Propaganda – the myths propagated through popular cul... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/swilton/41 Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:30:08 the Center for Science in the Public Interest which has found that palm oil, an inexpensive replacement for hydrgenated oils, has a negative impact on health and the environment.

http://www.cspinet.org/new/200506021.html

Though less harmful than partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, it is far ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/swilton/40 Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:27:29 [b]WHITHER A 2012 PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATE[/b]
[b,u,h1]Background[/b,u,h1]
I have been a member of Democratic Underground since I transitioned from the ‘Draft Gore’ blog in late 2007- early 2008. Over the past year, I have read DU postings with dismay as the evidence accumulates that the Obama presi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/swilton/39 Mon, 21 Feb 2011 11:26:53
Harvey Wasserman, Greenpeace advisor, author of SOLARTOPIA and founder of nuclearfree.org, discusses President Obama’s 8 bn initiative to expand the nuclear power industry. With the initiative unfunded by Wall Street due to its lack of economic viability because of lack of insurability (toxic was... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/swilton/38 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:38:29 - The Power of Nightmares -

Hi DU friends and collegues -
Review of Part I - Baby It’s Cold Outside

I connect with so many of you with my progressive political beliefs, I wanted to take this opportunity to share this must-see video with you - I know many of you will be informed or reinforced... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/swilton/37 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:09:28 :kick: ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/swilton/36 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:25:39 Hi DU friends, colleagues and comrades,
This will be my first post on democratic underground. To be brief, Senator Bernie Sanders has a petition up on his website to sign up in support of single payer health care. As many of you know, the challenges to get a substantive health care system that is... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/swilton/35 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:51:24 You can count Evan Bayh and his ilk in the DLC among that elite club.

War is glamorized in this country through our culture - it's the movies, the toys, the video games, the list goes on. And this message is reinforced in our education system.

Although this is another subject, I think Oba... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/swilton/34 Sun, 29 Mar 2009 10:38:38 our endless wars for their oil.

Traditional epidemic diseases such as tuberculosis, measles, pneumonia, cholera, typhoid, paratyphoid and dysentery have been associated with transnational conflict for centuries. The crowding of forced migrations, bad water and poor sanitation and malnutrition a... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/swilton/33 Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:38:04 All they had to do to take up the grass was put a layer of newspaper (preferably the Washington Post or the New York Times) down and a layer of mulch on top of it. Wait six months and voila - a layer of dirt - the newspaper + mulch kills the grass!!:shrug:

Notwithstanding the lack of imaginatio... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/swilton/32 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:20:55 I disagree that the people's interests need to be realigned with the banks - the problem is not that the people's interests are not aligned now with the banks. The problem arises because the CEOs interests are not aligned with the banks' and people's interests. :banghead: ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/swilton/31 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:56:21 The dyke of the myth of American morality has this Guantanamo Bay hole in it. I hope when the flood comes that it can be rebuilt. Hopefully, exposures such as this and the release of further prisoners will be the beginning of the catharsis process that will include accountability. Then we can beg... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/swilton/30 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:30:26 The dyke of the myth of American morality has this Guantanamo Bay hole in it. I hope when the flood comes that it can be rebuilt. Hopefully, exposures such as this and the release of further prisoners will be the beginning of the catharsis process that will include accountability. Then we can beg... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/swilton/29 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:29:57 The dyke of the myth of American morality has this Guantanamo Bay hole in it. I hope when the flood comes that it can be rebuilt. Hopefully, exposures such as this and the release of further prisoners will be the beginning of the catharsis process that will include accountability. Then we can beg... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/swilton/28 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:29:30 The dyke of the myth of American morality has this Guantanamo Bay hole in it. I hope when the flood comes that it can be rebuilt. Hopefully, exposures such as this and the release of further prisoners will be the beginning of the catharsis process that will include accountability. Then we can beg... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/swilton/27 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:28:42 Count me in!
:applause: ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/swilton/26 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:23:46 Thanks so much for sharing - I know only half of the artists - will get to know the other half!

I think we so under-value the arts in this country - I have heard it rumored that Obama intends to create/appoint ??? a Department of the Arts.

:applause: ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/swilton/25 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:16:47 :applause: ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/swilton/24 Sat, 27 Dec 2008 22:42:47 She Takes Out Her Brains:crazy: ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/swilton/23 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:15:48 This is the media manufacturing a distraction out of a non-issue. The woman is an INDEPENDENT VOTER. Yet, the subject line of the sound-bite on FOX is misleading - (in my own words) "Clinton Supporter on Why She Would Cross Party Lines To Vote For MCCain.

There are NO/r. NO party lines to cro... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/swilton/22 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:36:17 in comparison to the way he has abused our country. Besides, if you haven't noticed, there are two sets of rules: one set for Bush and his entourage and enablers, and the other for the rest of us. :mad: ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/swilton/21 Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:59:26 1. Even if our own government doesn't hold these crooks accountable, can't they still be tried internationally.

2. Debating the collapse of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Republican argument is that it was the Reagan arms build-up and the inability of the Soviet Union to... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/swilton/20 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:48:57