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Freedom Riding to Gaza
Tuesday, 5 July 2011, 10:22 am | David Swanson
Fifty years ago, freedom riders traveled by bus into the U.S. South. Now American freedom riders are joining their allies from around the world on a flotilla bound for Gaza. The U.S. ship is called The Audacity of Hope . More >>
John Dean Does Not Know How to Get Rid of Clarence Thomas
Monday, 4 July 2011, 1:06 pm | David Swanson
Am I the only one who noticed that ex-Nixon lawyer John Dean's article "John Dean Knows How to Get Rid of Clarence Thomas" concludes thus: "In short, nothing is going to happen to Clarence Thomas." Talk about false advertising! More >>
The Dominique Strauss-Kahn Rorschach Test
Monday, 4 July 2011, 1:00 pm | David Swanson
There's a great deal of disappointment, even distress, in the air as news spreads that Dominique Strauss-Kahn might not be charged with rape (or attempted rape, or sexual assault). He's guilty, the victim's character is being attacked in order to ... More >>
The Dominique Strauss-Kahn Rorschach Test
Monday, 4 July 2011, 12:48 pm | David Swanson
There's a great deal of disappointment, even distress, in the air as news spreads that Dominique Strauss-Kahn might not be charged with rape (or attempted rape, or sexual assault). He's guilty, the victim's character is being attacked in order to ... More >>
Imagine a MoveOn That Doesn't Answer to Democrats
Monday, 4 July 2011, 12:14 pm | David Swanson
On Friday I read in the New York Times that President Obama would be happy to cut $200 billion out of Medicare in order to inflict pain on his Democratic base, part of an imagined tradeoff in which the two parties inflict pain on their imagined bases ... More >>
King George III Won: Happy Fourth of July!
Friday, 1 July 2011, 4:12 pm | David Swanson
The Declaration of Independence is best remembered as a declaration of war, a war declared on the grounds that we wanted our own flag. The sheer stupidity and anachronism of the idea serves to discourage any thoughts about why Canada didn't need a bloody ... More >>
Memoirs of Torturers
Thursday, 30 June 2011, 3:50 pm | David Swanson
On September 18, 2009, seven former heads of the CIA publicly told President Barack Obama not to prosecute CIA torturers. On April 16, 2009, Obama had already publicly told Attorney General Eric Holder not to prosecute CIA torturers. On September 18th, ... More >>
When the Public Rises, We'll Want an Ally in Congress
Tuesday, 28 June 2011, 3:56 pm | David Swanson
For the majority of people in the United States -- a majority does not vote, a majority believes the government is broken, a majority thinks our public policy is headed in the wrong direction -- the fact that we call this place a democracy is apparently ... More >>
Freedom Riding to Gaza
Monday, 27 June 2011, 4:17 pm | David Swanson
Fifty years ago, freedom riders traveled by bus into the U.S. South. Now American freedom riders are joining their allies from around the world on a flotilla bound for Gaza. The U.S. ship is called The Audacity of Hope. More >>
Afghan Withdrawal: Obama Lied, Soon Many Will Have Died
Wednesday, 22 June 2011, 1:59 pm | David Swanson
The United States has about 200,000 military personnel in Afghanistan, half of them troops, half of them contractors. President Barack Obama put over two-thirds of that number there, first with a big escalation in 2009 that everyone refuses to pay the ... More >>
How the Mayors Debated and Passed an Antiwar Resolution
Tuesday, 21 June 2011, 4:14 pm | David Swanson
The U.S. Conference of Mayors has just done something it hasn't done since Vietnam, passing a resolution that supports efforts to speed up the ending of our current wars and calls on the President and Congress to "bring these war dollars home to ... More >>
Charlottesville, Va., Mayor Praises Antiwar Resolution
Tuesday, 21 June 2011, 2:19 pm | David Swanson
Charlottesville, Va., Mayor Dave Norris was the first mayor, after the original sponsor, to sign onto the antiwar resolution that was passed on Monday by the U.S. Conference of Mayors. He signed on immediately upon being invited to. Those early ... More >>
Bloombergvilles of the Future
Monday, 20 June 2011, 3:08 pm | David Swanson
We're years behind Tunisia and Egypt in public understanding of how government of, by, and for the people works, but some in the United States have been inspired and begun forming a path that has real potential. In New York City, students, academics, ... More >>
Congress Finally Finds Its Purse
Monday, 20 June 2011, 1:31 pm | David Swanson
For years there was debate on Capitol Hill over whether or not Congress could end a war by cutting off the funding. Despite the Constitution's clarity, and the clarity of numerous precedents, Senator Russ Feingold was obliged to hold hearings to explain ... More >>
Tim Kaine Avoids Topic of Wars
Monday, 20 June 2011, 1:29 pm | David Swanson
Did you hear the one about the Ex Democratic Party Chairman and the peace activist walking into the coffee shop? That was Tim Kaine and me on Saturday. He's the former governor of Virginia, former DNC Chair, and current candidate for the US Senate. More >>
UVA/Reagan War Hawk Defends Obama's War
Friday, 17 June 2011, 11:56 am | David Swanson
When a national television program this week needed to find a spokesperson for the right of presidents to launch wars without congressional authorization, it turned -- to the great shame of us University of Virginia alumni -- to Robert Turner. He ... More >>
Obama's Libya Defense Makes Bush's Lawyers Look Smart
Thursday, 16 June 2011, 3:08 pm | David Swanson
The arguments made to "legalize" war, torture, warrantless spying, and other crimes by John Yoo and Jay Bybee and their gang are looking rational, well-reasoned, and impeccably researched in comparison with Obama's latest "legalization" of the Libya ... More >>
Congress Members Sue Obama to End Libya War
Thursday, 16 June 2011, 2:12 pm | David Swanson
On Wednesday in federal court, 10 members of the U.S. Congress sued President Obama in an attempt to end U.S. involvement in a war in Libya. These are the plaintiffs: Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Walter Jones (R-NC), Howard Coble (R-NC), John Duncan (R-TN), ... More >>
Our Tahrir Square: DC's Freedom Plaza on October 6th
Tuesday, 14 June 2011, 4:41 pm | David Swanson
When other nations' governments go off track, their people do something about it. In Tunisia and Egypt people have nonviolently claimed power in a way that has inspired Americans in Wisconsin and other states, as well as the people of Spain and the rest ... More >>
Washington Post Wants Endless War
Tuesday, 14 June 2011, 4:04 pm | David Swanson
The Washington Post has yet to mention Section 1034 of the Defense Authorization Act of 2012, but you can expect it -- if it passes the Senate -- to show up in many a future editorial, as it will give presidents the "legal" (although unconstitutional) ... More >>
