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Your 1040 Tax Form Lies to You
Wednesday, 6 April 2011, 10:37 am | David Swanson
Pick up a copy of a 1040EZ US income tax form with all the instructions, particularly pages 36-37. Here are those two pages in a PDF . You'll discover that the U.S. government only spends 22% of its money on "National defense, veterans, and foreign affairs." ... More >>
Afghanistan: A Country, Not a War
Wednesday, 6 April 2011, 10:32 am | David Swanson
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN -- In honor of April 4, 1967, and April 4, 1968, when Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke out against war and when he was killed, I spent my first full day in Afghanistan on April 4, 2011, avoiding violence and discussing nonviolent activism ... More >>
Please Stop Burning Korans
Tuesday, 5 April 2011, 2:02 pm | David Swanson
DUBAI, UAE -- I was on my way to Afghanistan and have delayed the final leg of the trip a day to see whether being American is compatible with not getting blown up. The problem seems to be that, in addition to the U.S. military occupying the country ... More >>
Obama on Libya: What Would MLK Say?
Wednesday, 30 March 2011, 11:20 am | David Swanson
President Obama on Monday said he would "never hesitate" to use the U.S. military "unilaterally" to defend "interests" and "values," including "maintaining the flow of commerce." Fear of exactly that led the founders of this republic to give Congress ... More >>
Can Afghanistan and Pakistan Teach Us About Nonviolence?
Saturday, 26 March 2011, 6:35 pm | David Swanson
I may soon have an opportunity to meet with nonviolent activists in Afghanistan, an area of the world we falsely imagine has earned the name "graveyard of empires" purely through violent resistance. I was educated in the United States and learned ... More >>
Stop Bombing Libya
Wednesday, 23 March 2011, 10:31 am | David Swanson
Since Saturday night, the United States, France, and Britain have been bombing Libya with cruise missiles, B-2 stealth bombers, F-16 and F-15 fighter jets, and Harrier attack jets. There is no reliable estimate of the number of civilians killed. The ... More >>
Truth Spoken in US Capitol
Monday, 21 March 2011, 11:31 am | David Swanson
On the week that we mark going into another year of war, two peace activists, Joy First and Malachy Kilbride, from the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance interrupted US Capitol tours in the rotunda. While on a tour the activists walked ... More >>
Video: Why We Are Risking Arrest at the White House
Monday, 21 March 2011, 11:14 am | David Swanson
Videos feature: Daniel Ellsberg, David Swanson, Ralph Nader, Medea Benjamin, and Raed Jarrar, all speaking on need to protest war at the White House at noon on March 19 and at Quantico Marine Base where Bradley Manning is tortured at 2 pm on March ... More >>
Is Obama Even Worse Than Bush?
Wednesday, 16 March 2011, 4:38 pm | David Swanson
When I advocated the impeachment of George W. Bush, I did so despite, not because of, all the animosity it fueled among impeachment supporters. I didn't want retribution. I wanted to deter the continuation and repetition of Bush's crimes and abuses. Specifically, ... More >>
War Is Illegal - Even in Libya
Tuesday, 15 March 2011, 10:53 am | David Swanson
It's a simple point, but an important one, and one that gets overlooked. Whether or not you think a particular war is moral and good, the fact remains that war is illegal. Actual defense by a country when attacked is legal, but that only occurs ... More >>
Then They Came for the Trade Unionists
Monday, 14 March 2011, 2:07 pm | David Swanson
On this day, it behooves us to remember the words of Martin Niemoller. "First they came for the communists," he wrote, "and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a ... More >>
David Swanson: Sorry, Charlie
Thursday, 10 March 2011, 12:52 pm | David Swanson
I was watching "Family Guy" the other day on the local Boston Fox affiliate when they interrupted the broadcast for the following news bulletin. I quote: "Charlie Sheen may joke about them, but witches and warlocks in Salem say it's no laughing ... More >>
Kindness, Generosity, and Bombing Libya
Thursday, 10 March 2011, 11:05 am | David Swanson
Wouldn't it be kind and generous of us to send the US or NATO or a UN-approved military into Libya to bloodlessly prevent the vicious slaughter of masses of people by a truly evil lunatic? More >>
Clinton Wants More Propaganda, I Want Less
Wednesday, 9 March 2011, 12:13 pm | David Swanson
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has declared that other nations are doing a better job of propagandizing the world and that the United States needs to do more. However, we already invest far more in foreign propaganda than in domestic public media, and ... More >>
You Might Be a Transpartisan If...
Wednesday, 9 March 2011, 10:53 am | David Swanson
Partisan: a loyal supporter of the Democratic, Republican, Green, Libertarian, or other party, whether through ignorance or willingness to compromise. Independent: an isolated member of the majority. Bipartisan: a subspecies of the Democratic Partisan ... More >>
David Swanson: Manchurian Senators
Monday, 7 March 2011, 12:55 pm | David Swanson
People are doing journalism and the Washington Post is pissed. How to respond? Apparently the answer arrived at by Post editors is to just give up on any Americans who have been informing themselves and target those Americans who believe anything that super ... More >>
People v. U.S. Govt
Saturday, 5 March 2011, 2:23 pm | David Swanson
Statistically speaking, virtually nobody in the United States of America knows that we spend more on the military than the rest of the world combined, that we could eliminate most of our military and still have the world's largest, that over half ... More >>
Will Sweden Bring Back Death Penalty After Over a Century?
Friday, 4 March 2011, 10:31 am | David Swanson
Sweden banned censorship and guaranteed free speech in 1766, 10 years before the Declaration of Independence in the American British colonies, and -- apart from shameful episodes of caving in to dictatorships and Nazis -- has pretty well kept it in place. More >>
"Your Forefathers Would All Have Been Gassed"
Wednesday, 2 March 2011, 6:14 pm | David Swanson
There's a video available online that has created quite a scandal this week. It shows a fashion designer in Paris telling someone he loves Hitler and that their mothers and forefathers would have all been gassed to death. More >>
Why Wars Really Happen
Wednesday, 2 March 2011, 10:21 am | David Swanson
Many discussions of lies that launch wars quickly come around to the question "Well then why did they want the war?" There is usually more than one single motive involved, but the motives are not terribly hard to find. More >>
