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Swanson: Why Hayden's Wrong, Why Pelosi's Lying
Znet Article, March, 15 2010
David Swanson
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Tom Hayden wants peace, but he's sincerely mistaken about how to get it. He claims that Wednesday's unsuccessful vote to end the war in Afghanistan makes ending the war less likely, and that the way to end the war is to pass a bill that would then...
Swanson: What Bush Did To Haiti
Znet Article, January, 18 2010
David Swanson
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If a group of dedicated scholars, attorneys, journalists, and activists had tried to generate a comprehensive list of impeachable offenses committed by George W. Bush as president, and only 35 of them had been introduced into Congress, one of the ...
Swanson: Movement Music
Znet Article, January, 17 2010
David Swanson
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"If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution," said Emma Goldman, who might also have said "If we don't dance, not enough people will work long and hard enough in our revolution." This is one of the two most useful quotes for Amer...
Swanson: No, We're Not a Broken People
Znet Article, December, 29 2009
David Swanson
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In 2004 I began speaking at rallies and forums around the country on issues of peace and justice, something I've done off-and-on ever since. Up through 2008, it was extremely unusual for questions from the audience to consist of pure defeatism. In...
Swanson: Obama's Rejection Speech
Znet Article, December, 11 2009
David Swanson
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That was not a peace prize acceptance speech. That was an infomercial for war. President Obama took the peace prize home with him, but left behind in Oslo his praise for war, his claims for war, and his view of an alternative and more peaceful a...
Swanson: Iraq Mash
Znet Article, November, 20 2009
David Swanson
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I had to read a lot of books about the current war and occupation in Iraq before I found one that's laugh out-loud hilarious. It's a book about a U.S. military hospital in Iraq, a journal kept for a 10-month tour of duty by an operating room medi...
Swanson: Authoritative Rejection of Afghanistan War
Znet Article, November, 13 2009
David Swanson
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The last time I was on Laura Flanders's GRIT tv I argued that the American public opposed the occupation of Afghanistan, but another guest -- some Washington, D.C., "progressive" -- argued that this had no relevance, since the American public didn...
Swanson: How to End Wars
Znet Article, November, 07 2009
David Swanson
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Around the United States, peace groups are engaged in effective campaigns against proposed new military installations, local funding of weapons companies, and the routine destruction of the environment and of workers' health by such companies. Act...
Swanson: Healthcare Hoax from Hell
Znet Article, October, 29 2009
David Swanson
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Lies, damn lies, and promises from Democrats. An amendment allowing states to create state-level single-payer healthcare has been stripped out of the House healthcare bill, after having passed in committee back in July by a vote of 27 to 19. And...
Swanson: Presidential Power Grows
Znet Article, October, 18 2009
David Swanson
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Will You Love Every Future President?
Swanson: Army Experience Center’s Bad Experience: Turns out Training Kids to Kill Not Popular with Public
Znet Article, October, 17 2009
David Swanson
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“This is so cool! This is so cool!†a thirteen-year-old boy repeated as he squeezed rounds from a real M-16, picking off “enemy combatants†in a video game while perched atop a real Army Humvee. “I just came to the mall to skateboard but...
Swanson: The ACORN I Know
Znet Article, September, 25 2009
David Swanson
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If someone told you that a bunch of low-income people, most of them African-American or Latino, most of them women, most of them elderly, had been victimized by a predatory mortgage lender that stripped them of much of their equity or of their ent...
Swanson: Bush's Third Term? You're Living It
Znet Article, September, 05 2009
David Swanson
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What would have happened if Bush had been able to run for a third term, and won?
Swanson: Does Cheney Make Obama Look Good Enough?
Znet Article, May, 23 2009
David Swanson
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Dick Cheney could make anyone look decent, honorable, and law-abiding by comparison. But is the existence of someone worse, no matter how many hours our media monopoly gives him, enough to make Obama's decisions acceptable? Let's look at their p...
Swanson: The Wrong Torture Question
Znet Article, April, 29 2009
David Swanson
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When Americans get "ethical" these days they ponder the great moral mysteries, like "Is public health coverage fair to insurance companies?" or "If we increase the military budget but reduce one section of it, can the whole world still be safe?" o...
Swanson: Personal Torture Laws: Your Tax Dollars at Work
Znet Article, April, 19 2009
David Swanson
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On August 1, 2002, then-Assistant Attorney General of the United States Jay Bybee sent an 18-page official memorandum from the Office of Legal Counsel to the Acting General Counsel of the CIA John Rizzo. Such memos are treated as laws within our ...
Swanson: Feith Dares Obama to Enforce the Law
Znet Article, April, 04 2009
David Swanson
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Doug Feith is bluffing big time, and he's lifted Dick Cheney and George Bush onto the table as his bet. Now if only he could stop visibly sweating.
Swanson: Townhall Talk and a New Way Forward
Znet Article, March, 29 2009
David Swanson
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Obama's Thursday "town hall" featuring questions submitted online produced some interesting comments from our president. In response to a question from college students he explained that making student loans directly from the government, without p...
Swanson: What More in the Name of Love?
Znet Article, March, 23 2009
David Swanson
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If there is a day for mass action in the United States for peace and justice, April 4 is it. And if there is a place for it right now, it's Wall Street. April 3rd is a Friday, so more robber barons will be at "work" that day, but April 4th is a Sa...
Swanson: Rotten At The Core
Znet Article, March, 20 2009
David Swanson
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Remarks on March 19, 2009, in a park in which people are living in Richmond, Va., in front of offices of the Federal Reserve.


