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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.

Znet Article Swanson: The Worst Thing Ever Invented

Znet Article, February, 14 2011 David Swanson
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In this age of supposedly fighting against rulers and on behalf of oppressed peoples, the Vietnam War offers an interesting case in which the U.S. policy was to avoid overthrowing the enemy government but to work hard to kill its people.

Znet Article Swanson: Why Pentagon Claims MLK Would Love War on Afghanistan

Znet Article, January, 17 2011 David Swanson
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According to the Pentagon's lawyer, Martin Luther King Jr., if alive today, would view the US war on Afghanistan as both the act of a Good Samaritan and as necessary self-defense.

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article Swanson: What Do Afghans Think of the War? Ask Them!

Znet Article, January, 04 2011 David Swanson
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Americans are down to 35% supporting the war on Afghanistan.

Znet Article Swanson: Richard Holbrooke's Deathbed Conversion

Znet Article, December, 15 2010 David Swanson
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Shortly before the bombing of Yugoslavia began in late March 1999, Richard Holbrooke met with Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. By his own account, Holbrooke delivered the final ultimatum to Milosevic -- that if Yugoslavia didn't agree to the...

Znet Article Swanson: Stop These Wars or We'll Fill Your Jails

Znet Article, November, 30 2010 David Swanson
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Here's an easy question: would you rather go to jail for a few hours with a bunch of friends or die?

Znet Article Swanson: The New War Congress

Znet Article, November, 22 2010 David Swanson
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An Obama-Republican war alliance...

Znet Article Swanson: Will Sanity Be Restored and Fear Be Kept Alive?

Znet Article, October, 17 2010 David Swanson
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The problem seems to be, not so much accuracy as inappropriateness and volume. You should not shout anything or say "war criminal," but you especially should not shout "war criminal!"

Znet Article Swanson: Don't You Know That You Can Count Me Out - In

Znet Article, September, 29 2010 David Swanson
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Ted Rall's new book "The Anti-American Manifesto" advocates for violent revolution, even if we have to join with rightwingers and racists to do it, and even if we have no control over the outcome which could easily be something worse than what we'...

Znet Article Swanson: Fearing the Masses

Znet Article, September, 26 2010 David Swanson
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There's a new sentiment in the air, if the people who ask questions at my speaking events are any guide. I love these events, even though I am probably better at staying home and writing. I argue with people more than encouraging them, I'm afrai...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article Swanson: Six Facts No War Supporter Knows

Znet Article, July, 26 2010 David Swanson
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This coming week, the House of Representatives is expected to vote on $33 billion for war. A majority of Americans opposes this, but a sizable minority of Americans supports it. No one who supports it can be aware of any of the following six facts.

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article Swanson: The Crematorium of Empires

Znet Article, July, 16 2010 David Swanson
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On Wednesday U.S. senators from both political parties asked the president's representative to Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke what in the world the goal could be for the ongoing war. He had no answer.

Znet Article Swanson: "Inside Out" Tells It Like It Might Be

Znet Article, July, 10 2010 David Swanson
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Book review...

Znet Article Swanson: Democrats Forced to Cheat to Fund War

Znet Article, July, 03 2010 David Swanson
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The Democratic leadership in the House had to resort to an unusual and underhanded tactic to pass war funding Thursday night.

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article Swanson: Obama Was Created by Our Failure to Impeach Bush

Znet Article, June, 17 2010 David Swanson
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Remarks at the Rutherford Institute, June 16, 2010

Znet Article Swanson: Mass Murder in Charlottesville, Va.

Znet Article, June, 13 2010 David Swanson
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During the past five years since I moved back to Charlottesville, Virginia, I had yet to observe the slightest violent incident, prior to the recent spree of horrific mass murders. There was crime, but I hadn't ever seen it. I had only heard about...

Znet Article Swanson: Afghan Escalation Funding

Znet Article, May, 14 2010 David Swanson
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More War, Fewer Jobs, Poor Excuses

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