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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
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
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
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
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: 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: 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?
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.
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 ...
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."
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.
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?
Swanson: Manchurian Senators
Znet Article, March, 07 2011
David Swanson
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People are doing journalism and the Washington Post is pissed.


