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Hubris Isn't the Half of It
Tuesday, 19 February 2013, 5:50 pm | David Swanson
As our government was making a fraudulent case to attack Iraq in 2002-2003, the MSNBC television network was doing everything it could to help, including booting Phil Donahue and Jeff Cohen off the air. The Donahue Show was deemed likely to be insufficiently ... More >>
Pseudo-Protests and Serious Climate Crisis
Monday, 18 February 2013, 3:29 pm | David Swanson
Going in, I was of mixed views regarding Sunday's rally in Washington, D.C., to save the earth's climate from the tar sands pipeline. I still am. Why on a Sunday when there's no government around to protest, shut down, or interfere with? More >>
Justice Department Leaks Memo Legalizing Murdering Americans
Thursday, 7 February 2013, 1:53 pm | David Swanson
Here is the memo. With a few tweaks and a more creative title -- like "Murder With Your Hands Clean" -- this memo could sell a lot of copies. And why not? Either there's a whistleblower in the Department of So-Called Justice about to be charged with espionage, ... More >>
Look Not Unto the Morrow
Monday, 4 February 2013, 3:25 pm | David Swanson
Robert Fantina, the author of a tragically nonfictional survey of the lives of soldiers in all past U.S. wars, has now published a devastatingly fictional account of the war that the Vietnamese call the American War. More >>
Talk Nation Radio: Marcy Wheeler - Brennan is Obama's Cheney
Thursday, 31 January 2013, 8:23 am | David Swanson
Marcy Wheeler blogs as Emptywheel at Emptywheel.net . She says John Brennan, the nominee for CIA director, has been Obama's Dick Cheney, operating outside the law, lying about bin Laden, and lying about drones; the White House has killed an American ... More >>
A Blowback Hurricane
Wednesday, 30 January 2013, 12:54 pm | David Swanson
Most violence we face we've provoked. Those confronting us with violence are exactly as wrong as if we hadn't provoked them. But we are not as innocent as we like to imagine. More >>
Talk Nation Radio: Reese Erlich on Bahrain and Syria
Thursday, 24 January 2013, 8:38 am | David Swanson
Bahrain and Syria: in one the United States supports a brutal dictatorship against a nonviolent movement for human rights. In the other the United States supports violent opposition to the government in the name of human rights. All is not as it appears. ... More >>
David Swanson: How Unalienable Is Life?
Wednesday, 23 January 2013, 8:39 am | David Swanson
Meet the new boss who, upon his inauguration, declared that the right to life is unalienable. Let me be clear, that doesn't mean he can't take yours. More >>
Peace Movement Drones On and On
Friday, 18 January 2013, 12:07 pm | David Swanson
Peace Movement Drones On and On: Wisdom from the USS Kitty Hawk By Mike Ferner http://warisacrime.org/content/peace-movement-drones-and-wisdom-uss-kitty-hawk More >>
Talk Nation Radio: Stephen Zunes, part 2: Hagel | Brennan
Friday, 18 January 2013, 11:19 am | David Swanson
Stephen Zunes is a Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco, where he chairs the program in Middle Eastern Studies. Recognized as one the country’s leading scholars of U.S. Middle East policy and of strategic ... More >>
Nixon Went to China, Who Will Go to Iran?
Friday, 18 January 2013, 9:58 am | David Swanson
http://warisacrime.org/content/nixon-went-china-who-will-go-iran Iranians are now beginning to die for lack of medicines kept out by U.S.-imposed sanctions. I recently questioned (and videoed ) former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright about ... More >>
CIA Drone Wars Protested at CIA
Monday, 14 January 2013, 4:26 pm | David Swanson
CIA Drone Wars Protested at CIA By Malachy Kilbride http://warisacrime.org/content/cia-drone-wars-protested-cia An estimated one hundred people assembled outside the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters on Saturday expressing their opposition to the US presidential assassination ... More >>
Afghan Peace Volunteer says drones bury beautiful lives
Monday, 14 January 2013, 4:23 pm | David Swanson
Afghan Peace Volunteer says drones bury beautiful lives By Hakim and the Afghan Peace Volunteers http://warisacrime.org/content/afghan-peace-volunteer-says-drones-bury-beautiful-lives More >>
David Swanson: Waking Up in Tehran
Monday, 14 January 2013, 4:11 pm | David Swanson
According to one theory, U.S.-Iranian relations began around November 1979 when a crowd of irrational religious nutcases violently seized the U.S. embassy in Iran, took the employees hostage, tortured them, and held them until scared into freeing ... More >>
Zero Dark Thirty: Shahid Buttar - Spying, Detention, Torture
Friday, 11 January 2013, 2:14 pm | David Swanson
Talk Nation Radio: Shahid Buttar on Spying, Detention, Torture, and Zero Dark Thirty http://davidswanson.org/talknationradio More >>
Resisting Racism and Militarism in 2013
Friday, 4 January 2013, 12:39 pm | David Swanson
January 21st will be an odd day in the United States. We'll honor Martin Luther King Jr. and bestow another 4-year regime on the man who, in his Nobel peace prize acceptance speech said that Martin Luther King Jr. had been wrong -- that those who follow his ... More >>
A Way to Stop the Violence
Sunday, 16 December 2012, 9:11 am | David Swanson
The troubled souls (generally known in the media as "monsters" and "lunatics") who keep shooting up schools and shopping centers, believe they are solving deeper problems. We all know that in reality they are making things dramatically worse. More >>
Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities
Wednesday, 12 December 2012, 5:05 pm | David Swanson
Whereas the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is not self-enforcing, Whereas statement of the inherent dignity and of the equal and supposedly inalienable rights of all members of the human family achieves little without a struggle against greed, ... More >>
Howard Zinn's Echoes
Monday, 26 November 2012, 5:39 pm | David Swanson
We're approaching three years since Howard Zinn left us, and to my ear his voice sounds louder all the time. I expect that effect to continue for decades and centuries to come, because Zinn spoke to enduring needs. He taught lessons that must be relearned ... More >>
Armistice Day in the M.I.C.
Monday, 12 November 2012, 12:46 pm | David Swanson
Ninety-four years ago tomorrow on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, fighting ceased in the "war to end all wars." Thirty million soldiers had been killed or wounded and another seven million had been taken captive during World ... More >>
