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Znet Article Swanson: Drowning Government in a Hurricane (Why Wait for a Bathtub?)

Znet Article, August, 29 2011 David Swanson
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"Shrinking government" means a larger and more oppressive but less representative and less useful government

Znet Article Swanson: Will Obama Denounce MLK as Memorial Dedicated?

Znet Article, August, 27 2011 David Swanson
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Obama did something that I don't think anyone else had previously done in a Peace Prize acceptance speech. He argued for war

Znet Article Swanson: Virginia Militarized

Znet Article, August, 21 2011 David Swanson
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The U.S. military is a permanent and pervasive presence in Virginia

Znet Article Swanson: Constitutional Conventions: Shall We ConCon?

Znet Article, August, 17 2011 David Swanson
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The government's broken, but would a Constitutional convention be broken too?

Znet Article Swanson: The Divided Left

Znet Article, August, 16 2011 David Swanson
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There is a divide between independents and party loyalists, and between activists and lobbyists

Znet Article Swanson: The Military: Closer to You Than Your Family

Znet Article, August, 14 2011 David Swanson
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It is disturbing how difficult it is in this country to get any distance away from the military

Znet Article Swanson: Afghan Judges Accuse U.S. of War Crimes

Znet Article, July, 24 2011 David Swanson
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What the United States and NATO are doing, seizing people, locking them up, disappearing them, and torturing them is clearly illegal

Znet Article Swanson: Move the Budget Debate to One of Those Democracies We're Bombing into Place

Znet Article, July, 20 2011 David Swanson
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Imagine how radically different the current debate over the Giant Debt Ceiling Monster would look if we moved it to one of those nations we're bombing into a democracy

Znet Article Swanson: Going Neutral on Obama? Not on a Moving Train!

Znet Article, July, 16 2011 David Swanson
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By doing nothing, out of horror of right-wing lunatics, we empower right-wing lunatics

Znet Article Swanson: Killing Old People Is Fiscally Responsible

Znet Article, July, 08 2011 David Swanson
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Whose fiscal good is it?

Znet Article Swanson: Imagine a MoveOn That Doesn't Answer to Democrats

Znet Article, July, 07 2011 David Swanson
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What if we had an online organizing force that answered only to concerns of peace, civil liberties, and social and economic justice?

Znet Article Swanson: The Dominique Strauss-Kahn Rorschach Test

Znet Article, July, 05 2011 David Swanson
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Here's another general depiction of the world that is true: Major financial interests have no shame or conscience and will engage in all variety of dirty tricks to get their way

Znet Article Swanson: Memoirs of Torturers

Znet Article, July, 02 2011 David Swanson
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Just as the torture techniques drifted down the chain of command from these dealers in death to the rank and file, so too the book contracts

Znet Article Swanson: Obama's Libya Defense Makes Bush's Lawyers Look Smart

Znet Article, June, 21 2011 David Swanson
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The president's "foreign affairs powers" do not, under the U.S. Constitution, include the power to launch "military operations" or "hostilities" or "wars"

Commentary Swanson: Washington Post Wants Endless War

Commentary, June, 19 2011 David Swanson
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When fighting a war to build a democratic nation, something we have pretended to do quite often but never yet done, it is important to maintain absolute contempt for one's own democracy

Znet Article Swanson: DC's Freedom Plaza on October 6th

Znet Article, June, 14 2011 David Swanson
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A coalition of organizations and prominent individuals has announced a plan to begin a people's occupation of Washington, D.C., on October 6

Commentary Swanson: The Antiwar Movement 10 Years On

Commentary, June, 13 2011 David Swanson
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Many of us have come to the conclusion that the antiwar movement in the United States needs to act much more boldly in order to succeed

Commentary Swanson: Republicans in Congress to Crown Obama King

Commentary, May, 23 2011 David Swanson
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This new "legal" language would get presidents around the restrictions of the War Powers Resolution

Znet Article Swanson: Support Killing People or Lose Your Job

Znet Article, May, 21 2011 David Swanson
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Making the materials of war is what we do

Znet Article Swanson: Of Humans and Rights

Znet Article, May, 20 2011 David Swanson
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Some humans seem to have no business existing

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