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Nobel Peace Laureate Rejects Chicago Agenda
Tuesday, 17 April 2012, 1:55 pm | David Swanson
I write to let you know that I have decided not to attend the 12th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates on 23rd-25th April, 2012, in Chicago, USA. On 10th April, Sec. of State H. Clinton appeared on video in US State Department Web announcing plans ... More >>
Daddy, Where Do Taxes Come From?
Monday, 16 April 2012, 10:36 am | David Swanson
Well, I'll tell you where taxes come from in other countries, OK? They come from the idea that if we all pool our resources we can better acquire things like schools, hospitals, parks, trains, you know, things that belong to everybody. More >>
Liberals Cry Out: Tax the Rich! Fund More Wars!
Wednesday, 11 April 2012, 5:02 pm | David Swanson
The shout of the Occupy movement, at least in D.C., has been "End the Wars, Tax the Rich!" in that order and in combination. Over half of federal discretionary spending goes to the war machine. More >>
As We Ruin Our Kids' Planet, They Take Us to Court
Wednesday, 11 April 2012, 4:54 pm | David Swanson
Here in the land of the free lunch and the home of the instant gratification, most people make a huge deal out of children's rights or fetuses' rights, or occasionally both. Which is extremely bizarre -- crazier perhaps than bombing houses in Afghanistan ... More >>
Heard the One About the Peace Activist on the Titanic?
Tuesday, 10 April 2012, 4:06 pm | David Swanson
As we mark the 100-year anniversary of the unsinkable Titanic sinking, we should recall both the good and bad of that long-forgotten world of 1912. Were an unbelievably expensive means of luxury travel between the United States and Europe invented today, ... More >>
David Swanson: U.S. -- Hands Off Mali!
Thursday, 5 April 2012, 10:50 am | David Swanson
By the Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality – Richmond, Virginia, USA http://warisacrime.org/content/us-hands-mali More >>
Catching Rachel Maddow's Drift
Wednesday, 4 April 2012, 2:14 pm | David Swanson
People who know better gave Rachel Maddow's new book unqualified praise in blurbs on the dust jacket. Maybe they see more good than bad in the book, which is called "Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power." That's a fair assessment. More >>
The Statues in Our Public Spaces Lie
Monday, 2 April 2012, 2:15 pm | David Swanson
There are lies of omission as well as commission, and the statues in Charlottesville, Va. -- typical of other towns -- do both. We have statues of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, a generic Confederate soldier, George Rogers Clark, Lewis and Clark (with ... More >>
Outgrow "Diversity of Tactics" Before Protesting NATO
Monday, 2 April 2012, 2:09 pm | David Swanson
The Coalition Against NATO/G8 War & Poverty Agenda has nothing on its website about using nonviolence, supporting nonviolence, or opposing violence. The G8 and NATO Protest also has nothing like that, but does have this: More >>
A Message of Peace and Friendship from Iran
Monday, 26 March 2012, 1:40 pm | David Swanson
One of the speakers on Saturday at the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) conference in Stamford, Ct., was Leila Zand, Program Director, Middle East & Civilian Diplomacy, Fellowship Of Reconciliation. She said that rather than sharing her own views on ... More >>
Robots Kill, But the Blood Is on Our Hands
Thursday, 22 March 2012, 10:51 am | David Swanson
'Robots Kill, But the Blood Is on Our Hands' By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/robots-kill-blood-our-hands More >>
Would You Stop a Friend from Destroying the Earth?
Wednesday, 21 March 2012, 4:18 pm | David Swanson
What would you do if someone had a button that could destroy the earth and they were walking across the room to push it? Would you stand in the way? Would you talk them out of it? Would you sit by and watch, maybe make a sarcastic remark or two? More >>
Obama Declares War on Iraq an Honorable Success
Wednesday, 21 March 2012, 4:11 pm | David Swanson
On the ninth anniversary of U.S. forces moving into Iraq, President Barack Obama has proclaimed today to be “A National Day of Honor.” Here’s is the text of the president’s proclamation: "Nine years ago, members of the United States Armed ... More >>
No Justice Without Peace
Monday, 19 March 2012, 3:42 pm | David Swanson
Last night in New York City, by my unscientific estimate, two-thirds of the people on the streets had alcohol in them. A young man celebrating his wedding engagement was stabbed to death. A party a third floor apartment to collapse into the second ... More >>
Nine Years Later: More Shocked, Less Awed
Monday, 19 March 2012, 3:16 pm | David Swanson
When I lived in New York 20 years ago, the United States was beginning a 20-year war on Iraq. We protested at the United Nations. The Miami Herald depicted Saddam Hussein as a giant fanged spider attacking the United States. More >>
Elections: What Are They Good For?
Monday, 19 March 2012, 3:03 pm | David Swanson
I think two opposing trends have been at work in U.S. history. One is that of allowing more people to vote. This is an ongoing struggle, of course, but in some significant sense we've allowed poor people and women and non-white people and young people to ... More >>
David Swanson: Military Test in Thousands of High Schools
Thursday, 15 March 2012, 11:27 am | David Swanson
Pat Elder of the National Coalition to Protect Student Privacy (StudentPrivacy.org) explains how the U.S. military gets away with requiring students in thousands of U.S. high schools to take a 3-hour career inventory test with the results going straight ... More >>
David Swanson: Kandahar ‘Killing-Spree’ Militarism
Wednesday, 14 March 2012, 11:02 am | David Swanson
Tragedies like the Kandahar killing spree which massacred 16 Afghan civilians in their sleep ( including 6 children and 3 women ) are tragedies repeated in any war, including the U.S. war in Afghanistan. This failed military strategy that is designed ... More >>
Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities
Tuesday, 13 March 2012, 10:49 am | David Swanson
PREAMBLE 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 ... More >>
Perriellian Wars
Monday, 12 March 2012, 1:08 pm | David Swanson
Virginia's Fifth Congressional District had been long disgraced by the racist buffoon Democrat turned Republican Virgil Goode when Tom Perriello was elected as a non-racist buffoon Democrat in 2008. For partisans, just getting elected and doing what President ... More >>
