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Bring on the Beautiful Trouble
Saturday, 19 May 2012, 10:59 am | David Swanson
Bring on the Beautiful Trouble By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/bring-beautiful-trouble Now here's a book that's meant to be used: " Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution " edited by Andrew Boyd and Dave Oswald Mitchell. The subtitle should ... More >>
Drones in U.S. Flight Paths: What Could Go Wrong?
Tuesday, 15 May 2012, 5:23 pm | David Swanson
On March 9th the Federal Aviation Administration requested comments from the public on drone test sites. On May 8th, lengthy comments were submitted by Not 1 More Acre! and Purgatoire, Apishapa & Comanche Grassland Trust. More >>
TN Radio: Stephen M. Kohn on Govt Whistleblower Attacks
Friday, 11 May 2012, 12:49 pm | David Swanson
Stephen M. Kohn of the National Whistleblowers Center says that for national security whistleblowers, Obama's presidency has been "a disaster." Kohn, the author of eight books on whistleblower law, represents Sibel Edmonds, an FBI whistleblower ... More >>
Colin Powell's Tangled Web
Friday, 11 May 2012, 12:16 pm | David Swanson
“I get mad when bloggers accuse me of lying -- of knowing the information was false. I didn’t.” -- Colin Powell. More >>
The Military Impacts in Hawai’i should be a Warning to Korea
Friday, 11 May 2012, 12:07 pm | David Swanson
The Military Impacts in Hawai’i should be a Warning to Koreans about the threat to Jeju island By Kyle Kajihiro http://warisacrime.org/content/military-impacts-hawai%E2%80%99i-should-be-warning-koreans-about-threat-jeju-island More >>
"We Did Not Choose This War" and Other Hypocrisies
Friday, 11 May 2012, 11:47 am | David Swanson
"We did not choose this war. This war came to us on 9/11. We don't go looking for a fight. But when we see our homeland violated, when we see our fellow citizens killed, then we understand what we have to do." More >>
Libyan Model and the Oxymoron: Class of 2012 Queen and King
Wednesday, 9 May 2012, 5:27 pm | David Swanson
There's a new Atrocity Prevention Board in town, and its chief tool for preventing atrocities will be...wait for it...atrocities! What a breakthrough! And this clown is forming a tentative life partnership with an unbelievably beautiful model from ... More >>
Leaving Afghanistan by Staying
Tuesday, 8 May 2012, 10:35 am | David Swanson
Is staying in Afghanistan OK with you as long as we call it leaving? President Obama has signed an agreement with President Karzai to keep a major U.S. military presence in Afghanistan (currently about three times the size Obama began with) through the ... More >>
Sibel Edmonds Finally Wins
Tuesday, 1 May 2012, 3:23 pm | David Swanson
Sibel Edmonds' new book, "Classified Woman," is like an FBI file on the FBI, only without the incompetence. The experiences she recounts resemble K.'s trip to the castle, as told by Franz Kafka, only without the pleasantness and humanity. More >>
The Global War on Terror, in the Original German
Monday, 30 April 2012, 11:07 am | David Swanson
In 1939, Sebastian Haffner sat down and wrote a pre-history of Nazism. Nazism had not been inevitable. It had not progressed steadily without setbacks. But it had been growing for many years, even before the name for it existed. It had been coming ... More >>
What a Real Peace Candidate Looks Like
Friday, 27 April 2012, 11:03 am | David Swanson
I recently wrote about a conversation I'd had with a fairly typical Democratic candidate for Congress (O.K. perhaps he was below average) -- a former military officer who claims to be for peace, but whose every solution involves war. I asked him to make ... More >>
How to Tell if a Candidate Backs War or Peace
Thursday, 26 April 2012, 1:16 pm | David Swanson
I just had a chat with a Democratic candidate who has just about wrapped up his party's nomination for Congress here in Virginia's Fifth Congressional District. John Douglass is a retired Brigadier General, a former Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and a former ... More >>
AP Story on Afghanistan Agreement Translated into Human
Thursday, 26 April 2012, 11:40 am | David Swanson
Here's an Associated Press story on an agreement for another decade of U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, an agreement between two governments that do not represent their peoples, a story that was clearly translated from the language of some foreign ... More >>
Veterans for Peace member alters CNN Afghanistan discussion
Thursday, 26 April 2012, 11:06 am | David Swanson
Scott Camil, a veteran of the second-longest U.S. war in history, that on Vietnam, radically changed a discussion of the longest war in U.S. history, that on Afghanistan, on CNN on Sunday. More >>
What Bradley Manning Means to Us
Tuesday, 24 April 2012, 9:22 am | David Swanson
What Bradley Manning Means to Us By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/what-bradley-manning-means-us More >>
Veterans For Peace Among 33 Arrested Outside Drone Base
Tuesday, 24 April 2012, 9:16 am | David Swanson
http://warisacrime.org/content/veterans-peace-among-33-arrested-outside-drone-base-new-york-state More >>
How Dare Russia
Monday, 23 April 2012, 12:22 pm | David Swanson
The United States Congress is outraged. Russia, it seems, may have wrongly imprisoned, tortured, and murdered a whistleblower. In the land of the free, our good representatives are outraged, I tell you. More >>
Legal and Humane Frameworks for Opposing Torture
Monday, 23 April 2012, 12:11 pm | David Swanson
Cases come in by the thousands from all over the world. A man was beaten and whipped. A woman was beaten and raped. A boy was hooded with three empty sand bags in 100-degree heat all day, starved, beaten, and kept in stress positions. More >>
Is Peace Getting in the Way of Our War Plans?
Monday, 23 April 2012, 9:37 am | David Swanson
This past weekend, the United States and other major nations finally spoke with Iran. In 10 hours of talks (or 5 with translations), minus a lunch break, Iran agreed to a framework for ensuring that its nuclear program is only used for civilian purposes. More >>
Dahr Jamail: BP Oil Disaster Ongoing After Two Years
Thursday, 19 April 2012, 12:44 pm | David Swanson
Dahr Jamail has covered the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico for two years. He reports on massive environmental and economic damage and on oil continuing to enter these damaged waters. Jamail is based in Doha, Qatar working as an Online News ... More >>
