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Osama Bin Lynched
Thursday, 5 May 2011, 10:39 am | David Swanson
I'm going to give this speech tonight to a crowd of drunk young people. If I'm not back by morning, ask around if there have been any "Islamic burials." About 10 years ago a bunch of psychotic killers crashed planes into buildings. A tall skinny guy ... More >>
Killing Resolves Nothing
Wednesday, 4 May 2011, 10:41 am | David Swanson
The plane I was on landed in Washington, D.C., Sunday night, and the pilot came on the intercom to tell everyone to celebrate: our government had killed Osama bin Laden. This was better than winning the Super Bowl, he said. More >>
Killing Resolves Nothing
Tuesday, 3 May 2011, 8:58 am | David Swanson
The plane I was on landed in Washington, D.C., Sunday night, and the pilot came on the intercom to tell everyone to celebrate: our government had killed Osama bin Laden. This was better than winning the Super Bowl, he said. More >>
White House Website Lying About Taxes
Monday, 2 May 2011, 1:49 pm | David Swanson
It claims that only 26.3% goes to "National Defense". This is similar to the claim in the 1040EZ US income tax form booklet (see pages 36-37). Here are those two pages in a PDF . There the claim is that the U.S. government only spends 22% of its money ... More >>
Why a Dog Is More Qualified for Congress Than Robert Hurt
Monday, 2 May 2011, 12:57 pm | David Swanson
The Charlottesville Daily Progress, to its credit, did something that I don't think it or most small-town newspapers have done before, and certainly have not done often: it wrote about the local congress member's position on military spending. Sure it's ... More >>
Four Million Refugees From a Liberation
Monday, 2 May 2011, 12:55 pm | David Swanson
Of all the 95% of humans who live outside the United States, or any of those within it for that matter, who do you think is most invisible? Whose existence, did we come to hear about it, would be the most incomprehensible and therefore inaudible? More >>
TV, Newspapers, Congress Apologize: War is about oil
Thursday, 21 April 2011, 1:08 pm | David Swanson
In the wake of the latest revelations of what everyone always knew , the largest press conference in the history of the United States has been planned for tomorrow in the Nationals Park baseball stadium in Washington, D.C. The powerful people lining ... More >>
BP Is Messing With the Wrong Woman
Thursday, 21 April 2011, 1:06 pm | David Swanson
BP may have chosen the right country to hit with the worst oil disaster in world history. If there's any population that will take seeing its land and water destroyed for corporate profit lying down, it's got to be us. We're split between gratitude ... More >>
David Swanson: It Would Be an Honor
Thursday, 21 April 2011, 1:02 pm | David Swanson
William Lad Sessions is a philosophy professor at Washington and Lee University in Virginia. I was once a philosophy student at the University of Virginia. Both schools have honor codes for their students. I experienced UVA's honor code as one of the ... More >>
If Cairo Came to Kabul
Thursday, 21 April 2011, 12:57 pm | David Swanson
Before Tahrir Square happened almost nobody predicted that President Hosni Mubarak would be forced out of office by a movement that didn't pick up a gun. Had President Barack Obama expected that outcome, he might have publicly backed Mubarak's departure ... More >>
The Cure for Plutocracy: Strike!
Thursday, 21 April 2011, 11:43 am | David Swanson
How do you get politicians living off legalized bribery to criminalize bribery? How do you persuade the corporate media to report on the interests of flesh-and-blood, non-corporate people? How do you take over a political party when the only other ... More >>
Did You Just Call Me a Socialist?
Monday, 18 April 2011, 12:37 pm | David Swanson
On Friday on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, congress members spoke in defense of Medicare, Social Security, the Environmental Protection Agency, and other programs that by almost anyone's definition are socialist, programs that were ... More >>
A Twelve Year Plan From a Guy With Two Left
Friday, 15 April 2011, 12:10 pm | David Swanson
Obama's speech on the deficit on Wednesday was a flop. He proposed to end no wars, make no serious cuts to the military, REDUCE corporate taxes, tax no estates or investments, raise no taxes on any billionaires, and give an unelected commission the power to ... More >>
Justice Department Asks Spain Not to Prosecute US Torturers
Friday, 15 April 2011, 12:08 pm | David Swanson
Spain is pursuing a case against former top U.S. officials who authorized the use of torture, including David Addington, Jay Bybee, Douglas Feith, William Haynes, John Yoo, and Alberto Gonzales. U.S. activist groups have been encouraging Spain ... More >>
Why Am I A Peace Activist? Why Aren't You?
Wednesday, 13 April 2011, 11:49 am | David Swanson
More than any other description, except for perhaps husband and father, I have been for the past six years a peace activist. Yet, I hesitate on the question of how to tell my personal story of experience with war. I recently visited Afghanistan briefly, ... More >>
Lies About the U.S. Civil War 150 Years Later
Wednesday, 13 April 2011, 11:46 am | David Swanson
Tuesday marks 150 years since the start of the U.S. Civil War. Newspapers everywhere are proclaiming it the deadliest war in U.S. history, the costliest U.S. war in terms of the loss of human life. That claim, like most things we say about the Civil War, ... More >>
Lesser-Evil Math Doesn't Compute
Tuesday, 12 April 2011, 2:14 pm | David Swanson
In an electoral system corrupted by money, media, and parties, the U.S. people are offered a choice every four years between two hideously awful candidates for an office that increasingly resembles an imperial throne. And increasingly the primary motivation ... More >>
The Justice Dept. Doesn't "Legalize" War Secretly Anymore
Monday, 11 April 2011, 1:14 pm | David Swanson
In the good old days of Bybee and Yoo, before we let them get away with it, thereby guaranteeing worse things to come, Justice Department memos "legalizing" the crime of aggressive war were secret. Now they're published quickly, and there's a new one ... More >>
An Afghan Peace Movement, Not a US Peace Jirga
Monday, 11 April 2011, 12:38 pm | David Swanson
Kabul, Afghanistan - The United States, on the verge of shutting down its own government for lack of funds, just forked over another $50 million for a peace jirga (or council) to negotiate peace in Afghanistan or at least sponsor an upcoming conference in the ... More >>
David Swanson: Three Short Takes on Afghanistan
Thursday, 7 April 2011, 10:11 am | David Swanson
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN -- I've been fortunate to meet some very talented photographers and film-makers here in Afghanistan. We're planning an Afghan Film Festival for the United States this fall. More >>
