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Torture is Mainstream Now
Monday, 14 April 2014, 3:22 pm | David Swanson
As Rebecca Gordon notes in her new book, Mainstreaming Torture, polls find greater support in the United States for torture now than when Bush was president. And it's not hard to see why that would be the case. More >>
Rumsfeld Personifies Our Society
Saturday, 12 April 2014, 2:31 pm | David Swanson
When Donald Rumsfeld used to hold press conferences about the Iraq war, the press corps would giggle at the clever ways in which he refused to actually say anything or answer any questions. More >>
War For Dummies
Friday, 11 April 2014, 1:06 pm | David Swanson
Sorry for the headline if it got you hoping for a quick 1-step guide on how to bomb a country without breaking a sweat. I didn't actually mean that I could teach a dummy to wage a war. I meant that only dummies want to wage wars. Need proof? More >>
A 15-Year Murder Spree
Monday, 7 April 2014, 3:30 pm | David Swanson
Fifteen years ago, NATO was bombing Yugoslavia. This may be difficult for people to grasp who believe the Noah movie is historical fiction, but: What your government told you about the bombing of Kosovo was false. And it matters. More >>
DC Has Two Team Names to Change
Sunday, 6 April 2014, 12:57 pm | David Swanson
Two professional sports teams in Washington, D.C., have intolerable names: the Redskins and the Nationals. More >>
AP Re-Used Three-Year-Old Article on Torture Report
Thursday, 3 April 2014, 3:31 pm | David Swanson
The Associated Press is denying claims by two of its writers that cost-savings was a motivation. Rather, says editor Richard Giardino, an error resulted in the accidental re-publication last week of an article on a Senate committee report on torture, an ... More >>
Here Comes Ukrainian Hemp
Tuesday, 1 April 2014, 4:59 pm | David Swanson
So the United States wants to buy hemp from the Ukraine. I suppose we should be happy. Anytime the U.S. government gives a country money that is not earmarked for weapons, we probably shouldn't too closely examine the unelected neo-liberals and neo-Nazis ... More >>
Lies About Rwanda Mean More Wars If Not Corrected
Saturday, 29 March 2014, 11:51 am | David Swanson
Urge the ending of war these days and you'll very quickly hear two words: "Hitler" and "Rwanda." While World War II killed some 70 million people, it's the killing of some 6 to 10 million (depending on who's included) that carries the name ... More >>
Army Makes Case Against Enlisting
Thursday, 20 March 2014, 4:49 pm | David Swanson
Remarkably, the U.S. Army War College has published a report (PDF) that makes an overwhelming case against enlisting in the U.S. Army. The report, called "Civilian Organizational Inhibitors to U.S. Army Recruiting and the Road Ahead," identifies ... More >>
The Genius of Erasmus
Sunday, 16 March 2014, 11:59 am | David Swanson
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, who lived from October 27, 1466, to July 12, 1536, faced censorship in his day, and has never been as popular among the rich and powerful as has his contemporary Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli. But at a distance of ... More >>
The Lawlessness of the Enforce the Law Act
Friday, 14 March 2014, 5:28 pm | David Swanson
Not being mush of a masochist, I don't usually read emails from the Democratic Whip in Congress, but I opened one Tuesday night and was mildly excited to read that the U.S. House of Representatives would spend Wednesday debating the "ENFORCE the Law ... More >>
Talk Nation Radio: Ann Wright on the State of War and Peace
Thursday, 13 March 2014, 12:57 pm | David Swanson
Ann Wright has been a leading peace activist for years. She grew up in Bentonville, Arkansas, and attended the University of Arkansas, where she received a master’s and a law degree. She also has a master’s degree in national security affairs from ... More >>
Thermonuclear Monarchy and Revolution
Tuesday, 11 March 2014, 5:05 pm | David Swanson
So now we (or at least the 0.03% of us who care to hunt for it) discover that U.S. military spending is not actually being cut at all, but increasing. Also going up: U.S. nuclear weapons spending. More >>
Oppose Force to Save Starving Syrians
Friday, 28 February 2014, 4:34 pm | David Swanson
I've been asked to debate Danny Postel on the question of Syria, and so have read the op-ed he co-authored with Nader Hashemi, "Use Force to Save Starving Syrians." Excellent responses have been published by Coleen Rowley and Rob Prince and probably ... More >>
The Stupidest Idea in the History of the World
Thursday, 27 February 2014, 11:30 am | David Swanson
If you search on the internet for "the stupidest idea in the history of the world" you'll come away thinking that maybe a top contestant is the invention of Youtube. Who knew so many idiots could do so much damage to themselves with so many motorbikes ... More >>
If the Defense Department's not defensive, what would be?
Monday, 24 February 2014, 4:44 pm | David Swanson
Militarism has made us less safe , and continues to do so. It is not a useful tool for protection. So, what is? More >>
Operation Nazification
Saturday, 22 February 2014, 3:14 pm | David Swanson
Annie Jacobsen's new book is called Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America . It isn't terribly secret anymore, of course, and it was never very intelligent. Jacobsen has added some details, and ... More >>
Presidential Restraint Is Alive and Well
Wednesday, 19 February 2014, 11:29 am | David Swanson
... among people who are not the president. On Presidents Day, RootsAction.org set up a petition in response to this news: "An American citizen who is a member of al-Qaida is actively planning attacks against Americans overseas, U.S. officials say," the ... More >>
Do We Care About People If They Live in Bahrain?
Wednesday, 19 February 2014, 11:26 am | David Swanson
I had a heck of a time making sense of the U.S. Navy's new motto "A Global Force for Good" until I realized that it meant "We are a global force, and wherever we go we're never leaving." More >>
Talk Nation: U.S Marine Corps Threatens Small Pacific Island
Wednesday, 19 February 2014, 10:48 am | David Swanson
Michael Hadfield is a Professor of Zoology and Principal Investigator at the Kewalo Marine Laboratory, University of Hawaii, and at the Pacific Biosciences Research Center. He discusses the need to save Pagan Island, its people and other species, ... More >>
