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Znet Article Swanson: Movement Music

Znet Article, January, 17 2010 David Swanson
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"If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution," said Emma Goldman, who might also have said "If we don't dance, not enough people will work long and hard enough in our revolution." This is one of the two most useful quotes for Amer...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article Swanson: Obama's Rejection Speech

Znet Article, December, 11 2009 David Swanson
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That was not a peace prize acceptance speech. That was an infomercial for war. President Obama took the peace prize home with him, but left behind in Oslo his praise for war, his claims for war, and his view of an alternative and more peaceful a...

Znet Article Swanson: Iraq Mash

Znet Article, November, 20 2009 David Swanson
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I had to read a lot of books about the current war and occupation in Iraq before I found one that's laugh out-loud hilarious. It's a book about a U.S. military hospital in Iraq, a journal kept for a 10-month tour of duty by an operating room medi...

Znet Article Swanson: Authoritative Rejection of Afghanistan War

Znet Article, November, 13 2009 David Swanson
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The last time I was on Laura Flanders's GRIT tv I argued that the American public opposed the occupation of Afghanistan, but another guest -- some Washington, D.C., "progressive" -- argued that this had no relevance, since the American public didn...

Znet Article Swanson: How to End Wars

Znet Article, November, 07 2009 David Swanson
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Around the United States, peace groups are engaged in effective campaigns against proposed new military installations, local funding of weapons companies, and the routine destruction of the environment and of workers' health by such companies. Act...

Znet Article Swanson: Healthcare Hoax from Hell

Znet Article, October, 29 2009 David Swanson
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Lies, damn lies, and promises from Democrats. An amendment allowing states to create state-level single-payer healthcare has been stripped out of the House healthcare bill, after having passed in committee back in July by a vote of 27 to 19. And...

Znet Article Swanson: Presidential Power Grows

Znet Article, October, 18 2009 David Swanson
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Will You Love Every Future President?

Znet Article Swanson: Army Experience Center’s Bad Experience: Turns out Training Kids to Kill Not Popular with Public

Znet Article, October, 17 2009 David Swanson
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“This is so cool! This is so cool!” a thirteen-year-old boy repeated as he squeezed rounds from a real M-16, picking off “enemy combatants” in a video game while perched atop a real Army Humvee. “I just came to the mall to skateboard but...

Znet Article Swanson: The ACORN I Know

Znet Article, September, 25 2009 David Swanson
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If someone told you that a bunch of low-income people, most of them African-American or Latino, most of them women, most of them elderly, had been victimized by a predatory mortgage lender that stripped them of much of their equity or of their ent...

Znet Article Swanson: Bush's Third Term? You're Living It

Znet Article, September, 05 2009 David Swanson
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What would have happened if Bush had been able to run for a third term, and won?

Znet Article Swanson: Does Cheney Make Obama Look Good Enough?

Znet Article, May, 23 2009 David Swanson
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Dick Cheney could make anyone look decent, honorable, and law-abiding by comparison. But is the existence of someone worse, no matter how many hours our media monopoly gives him, enough to make Obama's decisions acceptable? Let's look at their p...

Znet Article Swanson: The Wrong Torture Question

Znet Article, April, 29 2009 David Swanson
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When Americans get "ethical" these days they ponder the great moral mysteries, like "Is public health coverage fair to insurance companies?" or "If we increase the military budget but reduce one section of it, can the whole world still be safe?" o...

Znet Article Swanson: Personal Torture Laws: Your Tax Dollars at Work

Znet Article, April, 19 2009 David Swanson
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On August 1, 2002, then-Assistant Attorney General of the United States Jay Bybee sent an 18-page official memorandum from the Office of Legal Counsel to the Acting General Counsel of the CIA John Rizzo. Such memos are treated as laws within our ...

Znet Article Swanson: Feith Dares Obama to Enforce the Law

Znet Article, April, 04 2009 David Swanson
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Doug Feith is bluffing big time, and he's lifted Dick Cheney and George Bush onto the table as his bet. Now if only he could stop visibly sweating.

Znet Article Swanson: Townhall Talk and a New Way Forward

Znet Article, March, 29 2009 David Swanson
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Obama's Thursday "town hall" featuring questions submitted online produced some interesting comments from our president. In response to a question from college students he explained that making student loans directly from the government, without p...

Znet Article Swanson: What More in the Name of Love?

Znet Article, March, 23 2009 David Swanson
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If there is a day for mass action in the United States for peace and justice, April 4 is it. And if there is a place for it right now, it's Wall Street. April 3rd is a Friday, so more robber barons will be at "work" that day, but April 4th is a Sa...

Znet Article Swanson: Rotten At The Core

Znet Article, March, 20 2009 David Swanson
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Remarks on March 19, 2009, in a park in which people are living in Richmond, Va., in front of offices of the Federal Reserve.

Znet Article Swanson: Power Shift in the Air

Znet Article, March, 02 2009 David Swanson
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This weekend in Washington, D.C., there was a lot of preparation for Monday's massive civil disobedience for clean energy at the Capitol power plant.

Znet Article Swanson: Honestly, Judge, I Did It But Let's Look Forward

Znet Article, February, 18 2009 David Swanson
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While every president belongs to some political party, that is no excuse. He or she is still required to obey laws. And every attorney general is required to enforce laws, regardless of what the current president may say to the contrary. Attorneys...

Znet Article Swanson: Dangerous Executive Orders

Znet Article, January, 26 2009 David Swanson
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The Center for Constitutional Rights has expressed concern that President Obama's executive order banning torture may contain a loophole. But no president has any right to declare torture legal or illegal, with or without loopholes. And if we acce...

Znet Article Swanson: Bush Comparison Seen As Unfair to Dogs

Znet Article, December, 15 2008 David Swanson
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This is the question now raised in Iraq: If they throw shoes at your face are you a combat troop or a noncombat troop? The answer may be important in helping to guide President Elect Obama's strategy of reducing but continuing the genocidal occupa...

Znet Article Swanson: What If Labor Opposed War?

Znet Article, November, 13 2008 David Swanson
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I think the peace movement and every justice movement in the United States should simply overwhelm Congress members during the next two months with one and only one demand: Pass the Employee Free Choice Act in January.

Znet Article Swanson: How to Treat a President-Elect

Znet Article, November, 08 2008 David Swanson
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The only respectful way to treat a president elect or a president is to behave as a democratic citizen should, as a democratic president should want us to. Failing to make our will known amounts to an accusation against our elected officials. We...

Znet Article Swanson: Blue Virginia

Znet Article, November, 05 2008 David Swanson
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Virginia and the rest of the old South always voted for Democrats for president when the Democratic party stood for racism, and for Republicans when the Republican party stood for racism, until tonight. Virginia just voted for a Democrat for p...

Znet Article Swanson: Frank Breaks Taboo on Military Spending

Znet Article, October, 28 2008 David Swanson
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When a Congress member steps forward and courageously articulates a forbidden truth that is absolutely necessary for our survival and well-being (and by "our" I mean our species, not just our nation), he must be praised, rewarded, and defended at ...

Znet Article Swanson: Imagine There's No Heaven

Znet Article, September, 07 2008 David Swanson
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Critique of religion in US politics.

Znet Article Swanson: If The Opposite of Pro Is Con, Then The Opposite of Progress...

Znet Article, June, 22 2008 David Swanson
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The day before Congress tossed the Fourth Amendment, and literally five minutes after they took out a $163 billion loan on behalf of my unborn grandkids to kill Iraqis and U.S. troops for another year, I had to give a speech at a university in Mil...

Znet Article Swanson: Does the Constitution Require the Impeachment of Bush and Cheney?

Znet Article, April, 15 2008 David Swanson
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John Adams, who was later the second president of the United States, wrote some words in the Constitution of Massachusetts that have been quoted approvingly by the U.S. Supreme Court and every state supreme court in the United States. He described...

Znet Article Swanson: How the Associated Press Lies About the Occupation of Iraq

Znet Article, April, 04 2008 David Swanson
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Every sane person understands that without the funding to continue the occupation, the Pentagon would bring everyone home rather than ceasing to provide them with weapons and food.

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