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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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

Swanson: Killing Old People Is Fiscally Responsible

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

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?

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

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

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"

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