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Patrick Cockburn: Missiles Won't Make Peace in Syria
Wednesday, 4 September 2013, 12:05 pm | David Swanson
Patrick Cockburn is an Irish journalist who has been a Middle East correspondent since 1979 for the Financial Times and, presently, The Independent. He won the Martha Gellhorn Prize in 2005, the James Cameron Prize in 2006, and the Orwell Prize for ... More >>
Congressional Progressive/Pentagon Caucus
Wednesday, 4 September 2013, 12:03 pm | David Swanson
Back in 2007, the Congressional Progressive Caucus helped organize 90 Congress members to commit to voting against war funding. Most of them turned around and voted for war funding. That was a high point for the CPC. More >>
Caveman Credibility and its Costs
Tuesday, 3 September 2013, 9:59 am | David Swanson
Sending a bunch of $3 million missiles into Syria to blow stuff up will kill a great many men, women, and children directly. It will also kill a great many people indirectly, as violence escalates in response -- an established pattern recognized even by the ... More >>
Possible Consequences of a U.S. military attack on Syria
Sunday, 1 September 2013, 12:52 pm | David Swanson
Its 4 a.m. and I can’t sleep, just like 10 years ago when President Bush was telling the world that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and the United States must invade and occupy Iraq to rid humanity of these weapons. More >>
Cruise Missile Law Enforcement
Sunday, 1 September 2013, 12:50 pm | David Swanson
The White House is treating the Syrian government like a potential drone strike victim.President Barack Obama's preferred method for dealing with targeted individuals is not to throw them into lawless prisons. But it's also not to indict them. More >>
Opposition to Iraq War May Save Syria
Friday, 30 August 2013, 10:07 am | David Swanson
Evidence of "weapons of mass destruction" is "no slam dunk," U.S. officials are saying this time around, reversing the claim made about Iraq by then-CIA director George Tenet. More >>
Jean Bricmont: Keep Humanitarian Imperialism Out of Syria
Monday, 26 August 2013, 3:26 pm | David Swanson
Jean Bricmont is the author of Humanitarian Imperialism, and of a recent article on CounterPunch called "The Wishful Thinking Left." Bricmont is a member of the Division of Sciences of the Royal Academy for Sciences, Letters and Arts of Belgium. More >>
Lying About Syria, and Lying Liars Who Lie About the Lying
Monday, 26 August 2013, 2:24 pm | David Swanson
"U.S. prepares for possible retaliatory strike against Syria," announces a Los Angeles Times headline, even though Syria has not attacked the United States or any of its occupied territories or imperial forces and has no intention to do so. More >>
Screaming in Bradley Manning's Trial
Friday, 16 August 2013, 4:50 pm | David Swanson
I sat in the courtroom all day on Wednesday as Bradley Manning's trial wound its way to a tragic and demoralizing conclusion. I wanted to hear Eugene Debs, and instead I was trapped there, watching Socrates reach for the hemlock and gulp it down. More >>
A New Holiday Is Being Created for Peace
Friday, 16 August 2013, 4:44 pm | David Swanson
When I wrote When the World Outlawed War, I was struck by the significance of a forgotten day, a day matching the description in the 1950 folk song that begins "Last night I had the strangest dream..." On this day, August 27, 1928, the major nations of ... More >>
Talk Nation Radio:EPA Lies for Frackers, Tar Sands Producers
Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 3:46 pm | David Swanson
Steve Horn discusses lies, fracking lies, tar-sands lies, and the EPA. Horn is a Madison, WI-based Research Fellow for DeSmogBlog. Steve previously was a reporter and researcher at the Center for Media and Democracy. More >>
Obama's Campaign to Glorify the War on Vietnam
Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 10:13 am | David Swanson
Wars exist because lies are told about past wars. When President Obama escalated the war on Afghanistan, he revived virtually every known lie about the war on Iraq, from the initial WMD BS to the "surge." More >>
Her Name Is Jody Williams
Monday, 12 August 2013, 11:24 am | David Swanson
Jody Williams' new book is called My Name Is Jody Williams: A Vermont Girl's Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize, and it's a remarkable story by a remarkable person. It's also a very well-told autobiography, including in the early childhood chapters ... More >>
Talk Nation Radio: Rooj Alwazir: U.S. Drones Terrorize Yemen
Thursday, 8 August 2013, 12:45 pm | David Swanson
Rooj Alwazir is a Yemeni American peace activist and an organizer and cofounder of the Support Yemen Media Collective. She describes the horror and the disaster that is the U.S. drone war on Yemen. More >>
Harry Truman and Memory of Mass Murder
Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 11:58 am | David Swanson
Harry Truman spoke in the U.S. Senate on June 23, 1941: "If we see that Germany is winning," he said, "we ought to help Russia, and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible." More >>
European Parliamentarians Call for Bradley Manning’s Freedom
Tuesday, 30 July 2013, 4:55 pm | David Swanson
Seventeen Members of European Parliament have written a letter calling on U.S. President Barack Obama and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to free WikiLeaks whistle-blower Army Pfc. Bradley Manning. The MEPs laud Manning for exposing “evidence of human rights ... More >>
Copperhead
Tuesday, 23 July 2013, 5:40 pm | David Swanson
Copperhead was a name for Northern Democrats opposed to the Civil War. Now it's also the name of a remarkable new film: CopperheadTheMovie.com. This is not the first film about a family opposed to the Civil War. Many will probably recall the 1965 ... More >>
TPP: The Terrible Plutocratic Plan
Monday, 22 July 2013, 4:56 pm | David Swanson
Like most of you I do not spend my life studying trade agreements, but the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is disturbing enough to make me devote a little time to it, and I hope you will do the same and get your neighbors to do the same and get them to ... More >>
Talk Nation Radio:John Whitehead on Our Government of Wolves
Friday, 19 July 2013, 11:40 am | David Swanson
John Whitehead discusses a recent attack by Alcohol Beverage Control agents on college students purchasing water and the larger trends toward a police state in the United States. More >>
Talk Nation Radio: Worker Ownership to Fix Broken Democracy
Thursday, 11 July 2013, 11:57 am | David Swanson
Gar Alperovitz discusses his new book, What Then Must We Do: Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution. Alperovitz points to long-term trends in wealth and income inequality, environmental destruction, civil liberties loss, incarceration ... More >>
