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David Swanson: Of The Radical And The Quaint
Sunday, 27 February 2011, 10:12 pm | David Swanson
I really want to thank Nancy Parker and everyone who helped put this event together. I would have come just to hear the other two speakers. I've learned a lot from Sandy Davies and consider his book required reading for all Americans. And it's an honor ... More >>
David Swanson: Your 1040 Tax Form Lies to You
Sunday, 27 February 2011, 12:57 pm | 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 >>
From the Capitol in Madison to the Shores of Tripoli . . .
Sunday, 27 February 2011, 12:50 pm | David Swanson
From the Capitol in Madison to the Shores of Tripoli . . . http://warisacrime.org/content/capitol-madison-shores-tripoli More >>
From Afghanistan: We Support the People of Wisconsin
Friday, 25 February 2011, 10:52 am | David Swanson
Afghan youth are quietly encouraged by the Egyptian uprising because the people of Afghanistan want what the people of Egypt want. More >>
Nonviolent Action Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
Thursday, 24 February 2011, 11:48 am | David Swanson
"One of my close friends, David Hartsough, who is white, was sitting in with a small group of civil rights activists at a segregated lunch counter in Virginia in the early sixties. They had been sitting there without getting service for close to two ... More >>
Did Roosevelt's Racism Cause WWII?
Thursday, 24 February 2011, 11:34 am | David Swanson
That was the argument made in a U.S. bestseller in 2009 written by a WWII historian whose father had raised the US flag on Iwo Jima. And the Roosevelt he had in mind was Teddy, not Franklin. More >>
Dying education in the “blossoming” Iraqi democracy
Saturday, 19 February 2011, 12:38 pm | David Swanson
While Anglo Saxon universities are boasting of their so-called “glorious role” in the reconstruction of Iraqi academia (See f.i. U of A helping create an education revolution in Iraq)1, Iraq’s education is dying. From August 1990 onwards, UN sanctions ... More >>
They Only Lock Up Heroes at Quantico
Saturday, 19 February 2011, 12:33 pm | David Swanson
They Only Lock Up Heroes at Quantico By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/56766 More >>
Obama Is Hurting Poor People
Friday, 18 February 2011, 2:25 pm | David Swanson
Obama is seeking to cut off poor people's heat in the winter and AC in the summer , in a move that Bush attempted and saw blocked by ACORN. More >>
Sociocide: Iraq Is No More
Friday, 18 February 2011, 2:10 pm | David Swanson
As we approach the 8th anniversary of a U.S. invasion of Iraq, and having just passed the 20th anniversary of another, it's worth reflecting on what's been accomplished through two wars and the intervening sanctions that former Secretary of State Madeleine ... More >>
Colin Powell's Own Staff Had Warned Him Against His War Lies
Friday, 18 February 2011, 1:39 pm | David Swanson
In the wake of WMD-liar Curveball's videotaped confession, Colin Powell is demanding to know why nobody warned him about Curveball's unreliability. The trouble is, they did. More >>
Nonviolence or Violence?
Saturday, 12 February 2011, 12:00 pm | David Swanson
A Nonviolent Exchange of Views in Four Parts 1. Don't You Know That You Can Count Me Out - In By David Swanson More >>
Nonviolent Activism Is Middle-Eastern
Thursday, 10 February 2011, 11:18 am | David Swanson
Muslims can look back to the classic nonviolent struggle against British empire waged by the Pashtuns from 1930-1934 in what is now Pakistan and Afghanistan. The leadership of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan and the Khudai Khidmatgar movement makes every list of ... More >>
Why Did the President Cross the Road?
Tuesday, 8 February 2011, 5:25 pm | David Swanson
To kneel before the corporate throne of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. And here's what he had to say there on Monday. President Obama again stressed that he wanted to freeze non-war/military spending well into the next president's tenure: "That's ... More >>
War Is Racism by Other Means
Tuesday, 8 February 2011, 10:13 am | David Swanson
What makes the most fantastic and undocumented war-launching and war-prolonging lies credible are differences and prejudices, against others and in favor of our own. Without religious bigotry, racism, and patriotic jingoism, wars would be harder to ... More >>
At Stake in Egypt: Reading Gaza Mom
Monday, 7 February 2011, 2:47 pm | David Swanson
The danger of permitting the Egyptians democracy, rather than replacing a dictator with his (and our) torturer lies, let us be honest, not in the possibility that Egyptian politics will approach the religiosity of our own Republican Party, and not in the ... More >>
Hosni Mubarak will you please go now!
Saturday, 5 February 2011, 11:11 pm | David Swanson
Hosni Mubarak will you please go now! The time has come. The time has come. The time is now. Just go. Go. Go! I don't care how. You can go by foot. You can go by cow. Hosni Mubarak will you please go now! You can go on skates. You can go on skis. You ... More >>
CPAC to Give Rumsfeld "Defending the Constitution" Award
Wednesday, 2 February 2011, 2:27 pm | David Swanson
That's where you should be to help present Donald Rumsfeld with a very serious award for his noble defense of the mythical document the Tea Party refers to mysteriously as "The Constitution," not to be confused with any document available in print. More >>
Decades in the Making: The U.S. Police State
Wednesday, 2 February 2011, 12:17 pm | David Swanson
Andrew Kolin's new book "State Power and Democracy: Before and During the Presidency of George W. Bush" actually begins with the war for independence and continues into the Obama years. A 231-page monotone recounting of endless facts, it doesn't pick ... More >>
Audio: Phonecall With Protester in Egypt Just Recorded
Saturday, 29 January 2011, 1:01 pm | David Swanson
I just phoned Tighe Barry, a great US activist with Code Pink, who has been in Cairo, Egypt, all week. Here is the audio. Tighe describes a different situation from what we get through the US media. --David Swanson More >>
