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Evidence of War Lies Public Pre-War This Time
Monday, 12 March 2012, 12:24 pm | David Swanson
When President George W. Bush was pretending to want to avoid a war on Iraq while constantly pushing laughably bad propaganda to get that war going, we had a feeling he was lying. After all, he was a Republican. But it was after the war was raging ... More >>
University of Virginia:Hunger-Striking Students See Progress
Monday, 12 March 2012, 12:08 pm | David Swanson
A living-wage campaign at the University of Virginia has been pressing the university's six-figure-salary administrators to treat its workers better for the past 14 years, sometimes winning higher wages, but always watching them be wiped out by the soaring ... More >>
David Swanson: Top 10 Resons for Troops in Afghanistan
Friday, 9 March 2012, 10:19 am | David Swanson
1. When you're setting a record for the longest modern war, cutting it short just increases the chances of somebody breaking your record some day. 2. When Newt Gingrich, Cal Thomas, and Lindsey Graham turn against a war, keeping it going will really confuse ... More >>
David Swanson: Peace Movement Needs Kucinich
Thursday, 8 March 2012, 9:30 am | David Swanson
'The Peace Movement Needs Kucinich, With or Without Congress' By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/peace-movement-needs-kucinich-or-without-congress More >>
Murder Is Legal, Says Eric Holder
Wednesday, 7 March 2012, 2:51 pm | David Swanson
Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday explained why it's legal to murder people -- not to execute prisoners convicted of capital crimes, not to shoot someone in self-defense, not to fight on a battlefield in a war that is somehow legalized, but ... More >>
David Swanson: Coalition Asks that Obama Nobel be Rescinded
Thursday, 1 March 2012, 2:10 pm | David Swanson
The signers of this petition include an array of peace groups and peace activists based in the United States. The undersigned wish to endorse and support the investigation that Stockholm’s County Administrative Board has reportedly begun based on it supervisory ... More >>
Virginia Says No to Lawless Imprisonment
Thursday, 1 March 2012, 11:44 am | David Swanson
Good things do come out of the Virginia state legislature. That normally reprehensible body has just stood up to the federal outrage that has come to be known as the NDAA. The letters stand for the National Defense Authorization Act, but at issue here is ... More >>
David Swanson: Un-Cheating Justice
Wednesday, 29 February 2012, 8:38 am | David Swanson
Elizabeth Holtzman knows something about struggles for justice in the U.S. government. She was a member of Congress and of the House Judiciary Committee that voted for articles of impeachment against President Richard Nixon in 1973. She proposed the ... More >>
The 10 Most Excellent Reasons to Attack Iran
Wednesday, 22 February 2012, 11:52 am | David Swanson
1. Iran has threatened to fight back if attacked, and that's a war crime. War crimes must be punished. 2. My television says Iran has nukes. I'm sure it's true this time. Just like with North Korea. I'm sure they're next. More >>
David Swanson: Current Negotiations are Excluding Afghans
Monday, 20 February 2012, 12:09 pm | David Swanson
If a war was being waged in the U.S. we would expect Americans to demand an end to the war and to have a say as to how it should end. Likewise, the people of Afghanistan want to have a say in the negotiations to end the Afghan war. After all, in 2011, ... More >>
Daily demonstrations at U.Va.’s Rotunda
Sunday, 19 February 2012, 2:45 pm | David Swanson
Charlottesville, VA— After years of dialogue with administration, marches, rallies, petitions, and public resolutions, the Living Wage Campaign of U.Va. began a Hunger Strike on Feb. 18th to urge U.Va to enact a living wage policy. For 14 years, the ... More >>
Learning From La Venezuela
Saturday, 11 February 2012, 2:30 pm | David Swanson
http://warisacrime.org/content/learning-la-venezuela Imagine that your son, your darling little boy, was killed during the past eight years in a war that served purely to kill a whole lot of Iraqis and enrich a small number of billionaires, while causing ... More >>
Chat I Just Had With Homeland Security
Friday, 10 February 2012, 5:05 pm | David Swanson
After publishing this report I was contacted by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement). The individual involved never returned my call. Instead I heard from Brian Hale who said he had been with Director Morton at the event recently held at the University ... More >>
ICE Director's Intimidation of Nonviolent Citizen Activism
Friday, 10 February 2012, 5:01 pm | David Swanson
John Morton, Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, spoke on Monday at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Here's the University's report. Here's the local newspaper's. Both report only what Morton said, without mentioning ... More >>
Do We Approve of Murder Based on Political Party?
Friday, 10 February 2012, 4:52 pm | David Swanson
A poll published on Wednesday at the Washington Post finds that a majority of even "liberal Democrats" approves of Obama killing US citizens. Of course, this would almost certainly be different if Obama were a Republican. More >>
The Betrayal of the Nobel Peace Prize
Friday, 10 February 2012, 4:48 pm | David Swanson
Alfred Nobel's will, written in 1895, left funding for a prize to be awarded to "the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion ... More >>
27 of 35 Bush Articles of Impeachment Apply to Obama
Friday, 3 February 2012, 10:08 am | David Swanson
When Congressman Dennis Kucinich introduced 35 articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush on June 9, 2008, the 35 had been selected from drafts of nearly twice that many articles. President Obama has accumulated his own massive list of high ... More >>
A Crazy Republican Attack That Obama Himself Agrees With
Wednesday, 1 February 2012, 5:11 pm | David Swanson
Imagine if a bunch of the craziest war-hungry Republicans in the House filmed themselves in a nutty bat-guano video packed with lies addressed to the President of the United States. And then imagine President Barack Obama almost immediately agreeing with ... More >>
Panetta: Military Spending Is Going Up
Friday, 27 January 2012, 4:52 pm | David Swanson
On Thursday, Leon Panetta held a press conference announcing what he called "cuts" to military spending. The first question following his remarks pointed out that the "cuts" are to dream budgets, while the actual spending will be increased over Panetta's ... More >>
Killing Iraqis Makes Us Safer - and Other SOTU Lies
Friday, 27 January 2012, 4:41 pm | David Swanson
In the news around the world and even in the United States on Tuesday was the anger among Iraqis at the failure of the United States to hold anyone seriously accountable for the 2005 massacre in Haditha. More >>
