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99 Years Ago: A Pause in the War on Christmas
Saturday, 14 December 2013, 9:42 am | David Swanson
"On Christmas morning we stuck up a board with 'A Merry Christmas' on it. The enemy had stuck up a similar one. Platoons would sometimes go out for twenty-four hours' rest -- it was a day at least out of the trench and relieved the monotony ... More >>
There Are No Bad Bears
Friday, 13 December 2013, 4:08 pm | David Swanson
When he was a tiny little bear cub, Nelson would scamper over to be close to his mother when he heard any loud noise. When he got a little bigger, if something scared him he would growl. Bigger still, and he would stand up on his hind legs, growl, ... More >>
Who's Excited About Another Decade in Afghanistan?
Friday, 13 December 2013, 3:49 pm | David Swanson
With 196 nations in the world and U.S. troops already in at least 177 of them, there aren't all that many available to make war against. Yet it looks like both Syria and Iran will be spared any major Western assault for the moment. Could this become ... More >>
Why Andy Shallal Should Be Mayor of D.C.
Thursday, 12 December 2013, 11:57 am | David Swanson
It would make a tremendous difference nationally and internationally to have a real activist, progressive, populist, and democrat as mayor of our nation's capital. Imagine a leading opponent of war as mayor of the world center of war making. More >>
What Didn't Kill Mandela Made Him Stronger
Friday, 6 December 2013, 9:56 pm | David Swanson
Nelson Mandela's story, if told as a novel, would not be deemed possible in real life. Worse, we don't tell such stories in many of our novels. More >>
Talk Nation Radio: I'm Thankful We Can Abolish Debt
Thursday, 28 November 2013, 12:34 pm | David Swanson
RollingJubilee.org has abolished over $14 million worth of people's debt to make the point that debt can be abolished. Aaron Smith explains how. Aaron Smith has been a participant in several initiatives of Occupy Wall Street, from park maintenance ... More >>
10 More Years in Afghanistan
Tuesday, 26 November 2013, 5:58 pm | David Swanson
When Barack Obama became president, there were 32,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan. He escalated to over 100,000 troops, plus contractors. Now there are 47,000 troops these five years later. Measured in financial cost, or death and destruction, Afghanistan ... More >>
Switzerland Shows U.S. How to Handle CEOs
Monday, 25 November 2013, 12:08 pm | David Swanson
In Switzerland a petition from 100,000 people, or about 1.25% of the population, creates a public referendum. By this means, last March, Swiss voters created strict limits on executive pay. More >>
Debating a Drone
Friday, 22 November 2013, 3:53 pm | David Swanson
Daddy Warbucks: May I have the first word? Brother Pax: If I may have the last one. DW: I'm sure you will, and you had the first one too. Before the drones came on the scene, you called them forth. You said "War costs too much money." You said "War ... More >>
Let's Take Advantage of Suffering Filipinos!
Thursday, 14 November 2013, 5:26 pm | David Swanson
The same week in which a Washington Post columnist claimed that interracial marriage makes people gag, a USA Today columnist has proposed using the U.S. military to aid those suffering in the Philippines -- as a backdoor means of getting the U.S. military ... More >>
Drones from the Other Side
Friday, 8 November 2013, 5:15 pm | David Swanson
Imagine you awake to the sound of a machine noisily buzzing over your house, and another machine nearby in the sky, and another. These machines and others like them have been around for months. They never leave. More >>
Finally a Drone Report Done Right
Friday, 1 November 2013, 10:57 am | David Swanson
The U.N. and Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International recently released a flurry of deeply flawed reports on drone murders. According to the U.N.'s special rapporteur, whose day job is as law partner of Tony Blair's wife, and according to two major ... More >>
Doughboys and Dumb Things Humans Have Done
Thursday, 31 October 2013, 5:09 pm | David Swanson
This November 11th at 11 a.m. will mark 95 years since World War I ended. Next July 28th will mark 100 years since it started. The world war, the great war, the war for no good reason, the war of poison gas, the war to end all wars, the war of mass ... More >>
Unmanned
Thursday, 31 October 2013, 4:56 pm | David Swanson
The new film Unmanned: America's Drone Wars should be required viewing in all schools and homes in the United States, including the home of the U.S. president who could not be bothered to meet with the child victims of his drones who spoke in Congress ... More >>
Drone Island in the East River
Friday, 25 October 2013, 12:18 pm | David Swanson
The primary problem with weaponized drones is that the weapons murder people. And they murder people in a way that looks more like murder to a lot of observers than other forms of military murder do -- such as murder by indiscriminate bombing or ... More >>
A New Kind of War Is Being Legalized
Thursday, 24 October 2013, 1:16 pm | David Swanson
There's a dark side to the flurry of reports and testimony on drones, helpful as they are in many ways. When we read that Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch oppose drone strikes that violate international law, some of us may be inclined to ... More >>
Talk Nation Radio: Max Blumenthal on Israeli Ethnocracy
Thursday, 24 October 2013, 1:07 pm | David Swanson
Max Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and bestselling author whose articles and video documentaries have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Daily Beast, The Nation, The Guardian, The Independent Film Channel, The Huffington ... More >>
Awkwardest and Most Authoritative Ever Comments on Drones
Friday, 18 October 2013, 12:55 pm | David Swanson
The comments come from Malala and the U.N. respectively. President Obama invited Malala Yousafzai, a 16-year-old Pakistani advocate for girls' education, to meet with his family. And she promptly explained that what he is doing works against her ... More >>
Talk Nation Radio:72 Cities Demand Clean Air Act Be Enforced
Thursday, 17 October 2013, 5:08 pm | David Swanson
Rose Braz is the Climate Campaign Director for the Center for Biological Diversity's Climate Law Institute. The Clean Air Cities campaign has thus far organized 72 cities, large and small, across the United States, to pass resolutions demanding that the ... More >>
If Hitler Didn't Exist the Pentagon Would Have to Invent Him
Thursday, 17 October 2013, 5:01 pm | David Swanson
When video of the October 14th edition of Thom Hartmann's TV show appears online (here) it will include him asking me to justify not attacking Hitler. Thom has asked me this repeatedly during multiple appearances on his show, each time a little differently, ... More >>
