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Talk Nation Radio: Nell Bernstein:Close All Juvenile Prisons
Friday, 27 June 2014, 4:44 pm | David Swanson
Most kids commit crimes. Those locked up in juvenile prisons are more likely to commit crimes as adults than are those left alone. So, why do we lock them up? What drives such counterproductive programs that create such misery despite demonstratd failure ... More >>
So That's Why They Kept the Drone Kill Memo Secret
Tuesday, 24 June 2014, 4:58 pm | David Swanson
Now that the U.S. government has released parts of its We-Can-Kill-People-With-Drones memo, it's hard to miss why it was kept secret until now. Liberal professors and human rights groups and the United Nations were claiming an inability to know whether ... More >>
The Democratic Push to Bomb Iraq Again
Friday, 20 June 2014, 5:10 pm | David Swanson
People forget the extent to which Democrats, who controlled the U.S. Senate at the time, pushed for and supported the 2003 attack on Iraq. Remember them or not, theeeeeeeeeey're back! More >>
A Brief History of Iraq for Westerners
Thursday, 19 June 2014, 4:54 pm | David Swanson
Iraq was saved from ignorant subhuman barbarism by a gentlewoman named Gertrude at the time that the civilized nations of the world were, in a quite advanced and sophisticated manner, slaughtering their young men in a project now called the First World War. More >>
Mass Murderers Brazenly Discuss Tools of Trade
Saturday, 7 June 2014, 12:30 pm | David Swanson
A unique conference is planned in Charlottesville, Va., featuring the latest technologies for the practice of large-scale killing. The Daily Progress tells us that, More >>
War Meat
Thursday, 5 June 2014, 5:46 pm | David Swanson
The most patriotic Fourth of July celebration I've ever been to was not in Washington, D.C., but at a little lake in Virginia. We were picnicking on the shore of the lake along with about 75 not very close friends and family. This was a few years ago. ... More >>
Juvenile Prison: $5 Billion for Child Abuse
Tuesday, 3 June 2014, 5:25 pm | David Swanson
Every juvenile prison must be immediately closed and all of its prisoners freed. Oh. Oh. Oh! That sounds too drastic and simplistic and revolutionary. We talk about being reformist or revolutionary as if it were a personality choice. Yet we also ... More >>
Afghan Elections: Pick Your Poison
Friday, 30 May 2014, 4:51 pm | David Swanson
No human being wants to be ruled by their people's murderers. Forgiveness through restorative justice may be possible, but being ruled by murderers is asking for too much. More >>
Why I Don't Want to See the Drone Memo
Thursday, 22 May 2014, 5:05 pm | David Swanson
And, lo, as I was driving home from the committee hearing I was pulled over for speeding, and I said unto the officer, "I've got a memo that lets me speed. Would you like to see it?" and he said, "No thank you, and not your grocery list or your diary either." More >>
War and Peace in Korea and Vietnam
Saturday, 17 May 2014, 8:46 am | David Swanson
http://warisacrime.org/content/war-and-peace-korea-and-vietnam-%E2%80%93-journey-peace More >>
One Day We Will All Strike for More Than One Day
Friday, 16 May 2014, 5:16 pm | David Swanson
An international one-day strike by fast-food workers is something new, and also something old. People without a union are organizing and acting in solidarity. Others are joining in support of their moral demand for a living wage. They're holding rallies. More >>
Public Health Experts Identify Militarism As Threat
Friday, 16 May 2014, 5:11 pm | David Swanson
A remarkable article appears in the June 2014 issue of the American Journal of Public Health. The authors, experts in public health, are listed with all their academic credentials: William H. Wiist, DHSc, MPH, MS, Kathy Barker, PhD, Neil Arya, MD, Jon ... More >>
United We Stand and Shout and Dance and Make it Better
Tuesday, 6 May 2014, 10:42 am | David Swanson
I'm looking forward to speaking on Saturday, May 10, at the United We Stand Festival in Los Angeles (and at an earlier event) where dozens of speakers and musicians will be standing together against such evils as: "the PATRIOT Act, NDAA, NSA, war on drugs, ... More >>
In Search of a Good War
Monday, 5 May 2014, 1:43 pm | David Swanson
The U.S. public is not longing for a U.S. war in Ukraine. Seven percent want military options considered (poll by McClatchy-Marist, April 7-10), up from six percent a bit earlier (Pew, March 20-23), or 12 percent for U.S. ground troops and 17 percent ... More >>
Atheists Caught on Film
Sunday, 4 May 2014, 3:32 pm | David Swanson
The film, The Unbelievers, now playing in theaters, documents a world tour of speaking events by a pair of scientists opposed to theism: biologist Richard Dawkins and physicist Lawrence Krauss. They take the refreshing approach that tolerating nonsensical beliefs ... More >>
Olympic Capitalism: Bread and Circuses Without the Bread
Friday, 2 May 2014, 4:59 pm | David Swanson
The author of Brazil's Dance With the Devil, Dave Zirin, must love sports, as I do, as billions of us do, or he wouldn't keep writing about where sports have gone wrong. But, wow, have they gone wrong! More >>
The Art of Satyagraha
Friday, 2 May 2014, 4:54 pm | David Swanson
Michael Nagler has just published The Nonviolence Handbook: A Guide for Practical Action, a quick book to read and a long one to digest, a book that's rich in a way that people of a very different inclination bizarrely imagine Sun Tzu's to be. More >>
Talk Nation Radio: Charles Komanoff: We Need a Carbon Tax
Thursday, 24 April 2014, 1:42 pm | David Swanson
Charles Komanoff is an activist, economist and policy-analyst. He directs the Carbon Tax Center and develops traffic-pricing modeling tools for the Nurture Nature Foundation. His work includes books (Power Plant Cost Escalation, Killed By Automobile, The Bicycle ... More >>
Three Images the World Needed To See | David Swanson
Monday, 21 April 2014, 6:06 pm | David Swanson
Employees of the U.S. government refer to people they murder as "bugsplat." They pretend that the men, women, and children they are killing with drones are just bugs, because they just look like little fuzzy creatures on a computer screen. Thank goodness ... More >>
War Is Good for Us, Dumb New Book Claims
Saturday, 19 April 2014, 1:24 pm | David Swanson
Ian Morris has stuck his dog's ear in his mouth, snapped a selfie, and proclaimed "Man Bites Dog." His new book War: What Is It Good For? Conflict and Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots is intended to prove that war is good for ... More >>
