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Znet Article Swanson: When the World Outlawed War

Znet Article, September, 29 2011 David Swanson
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The peace movement that made the Kellogg-Briand Pact happen, just like the militarism against which it competed, was given a huge boost by World War I

Znet Article Swanson: Troy Davis and Our Pro-Life Government

Znet Article, September, 23 2011 David Swanson
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Our government's status as pro-life is in grave doubt

Znet Article Swanson: Can Charlottesville Love Both Peace and War?

Znet Article, September, 12 2011 David Swanson
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It's a funny thing about peace and war: you really do have to choose between them

Znet Article Swanson: I Just Found 29 Million Jobs

Znet Article, September, 05 2011 David Swanson
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And the Department of Defense has been cut back to about $388 billion, which is to say: more than it was getting 10 years ago when our country went collectively insane

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"

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

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

Znet Article 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

Znet Article 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

Znet Article Swanson: BP Is Messing With the Wrong Woman

Znet Article, April, 21 2011 David Swanson
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A year ago BP began filling the Gulf of Mexico with oil. Last week BP blocked a woman from entering its annual meeting. Which will prove the bigger mistake?

Znet Article Swanson: A Twelve Year Plan From a Guy With Two Left

Znet Article, April, 14 2011 David Swanson
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Obama's speech on the deficit on Wednesday was a flop.

Znet Article Swanson: The Justice Dept. Doesn't "Legalize" War With Secret Memos Anymore

Znet Article, April, 09 2011 David Swanson
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In the good old days of Bybee and Yoo, before we let them get away with it, thereby guaranteeing worse things to come, Justice Department memos "legalizing" the crime of aggressive war were secret. Now they're published quickly, and there's a new ...

Znet Article Swanson: Obama on Libya: What Would MLK Say?

Znet Article, March, 29 2011 David Swanson
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President Obama on Monday said he would "never hesitate" to use the U.S. military "unilaterally" to defend "interests" and "values," including "maintaining the flow of commerce."

Znet Article Swanson: Wars Cannot Be Both Planned and Avoided

Znet Article, March, 23 2011 David Swanson
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Congress held an emergency meeting to defund NPR, and then did nothing as the President spent vastly more money on bombing Libya.

Znet Article Swanson: Kindness, Generosity, and Bombing Libya

Znet Article, March, 09 2011 David Swanson
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Wouldn't it be kind and generous of us to send the US or NATO or a UN-approved military into Libya to bloodlessly prevent the vicious slaughter of masses of people by a truly evil lunatic?

Znet Article Swanson: Manchurian Senators

Znet Article, March, 07 2011 David Swanson
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People are doing journalism and the Washington Post is pissed.

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