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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: 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
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
Swanson: Of Humans and Rights
Znet Article, May, 20 2011
David Swanson
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Some humans seem to have no business existing
Wasserman: How We'll Survive and Win
Znet Article, May, 19 2011
Harvey Wasserman
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The way it tends to work in this country is that people work on the issues about which they’re passionate
Swanson: This World and the World Without War
Znet Article, May, 13 2011
David Swanson
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Once you accept that war is inevitable, you eliminate the possibility of working to end it
Swanson: How Is Bradley Manning Really Being Treated?
Znet Article, January, 16 2011
David Swanson
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There are conflicting accounts of exactly how Bradley Manning, the alleged whistleblower on countless U.S. government crimes, has been illegally punished for 8 months so far, pre-trial.
Swanson: Six Generations of U.S. War Opposition
Znet Article, July, 29 2010
David Swanson
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The United States today may be the planet's greatest ever war maker, but the wars are fought, the bases maintained, and the weapons manufactured against the will of the majority of U.S. citizens. We express our opposition to wars openly in ways t...
Swanson: Blood on Our Hands
Znet Article, July, 22 2010
David Swanson
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The most massive and brutal crime committed on this planet during the past decade has been the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
Swanson: Howard Zinn's "The Bomb"
Znet Article, July, 21 2010
David Swanson
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The late Howard Zinn's new book "The Bomb" is a brilliant little dissection of some of the central myths of our militarized society.
Swanson: We Need ACORN
Znet Article, June, 21 2010
David Swanson
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Much of this country believes that ACORN, the now defunct Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, supported prostitution, engaged in voter fraud, and caused the subprime lending crisis. Some people are aware that these lies have bee...
Swanson: The Pentagon Papers Are Public This Time
Znet Article, April, 18 2010
David Swanson
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If a new Daniel Ellsberg were to release a new pile of Pentagon Papers exposing the lies behind the Afghanistan War, or even the past few decades of misdeeds by our country in that one, the result would differ from what happened to Ellsberg in a n...
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: 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...


