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Cheney's Crimes and Confessions
Thursday, 18 February 2010, 3:28 pm | David Swanson
Dick Cheney's statutory crimes are notable for their severity, their number, and his public confessions to them. Torture is the least of it. We can start with the crimes found in the three articles of impeachment contained in H Res 333 in the 110th ... More >>
Major NGOs Call For The Impeachment Of Jay Bybee
Tuesday, 2 February 2010, 1:02 pm | David Swanson
A campaign is building to demand the impeachment of Jay Bybee, a sitting federal judge and the former head of the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal Council (OLC), who wrote memos to facilitate offensive war and torture. More >>
David Swanson: What Bush Did To Haiti
Tuesday, 19 January 2010, 11:10 am | David Swanson
If a group of dedicated scholars, attorneys, journalists, and activists had tried to generate a comprehensive list of impeachable offenses committed by George W. Bush as president, and only 35 of them had been introduced into Congress, one of the many ... More >>
New Peace Coalition: Peace Of The Action
Wednesday, 13 January 2010, 10:19 am | David Swanson
"Peace of the Action will be setting up Camp Out Now on the lawn of the Washington Monument beginning March 13th and this new peace camp will be the launching pad for daily direct actions against the seat of our government More >>
2010 Peace and Justice Resolutions
Friday, 1 January 2010, 10:12 am | David Swanson
I resolve to do everything in my ability, while preserving my power to continue in future years, to reverse the destruction of the environment, the proliferation of weapons and wars, and the concentration of wealth. More >>
McCain Could Have Meant Less War
Thursday, 31 December 2009, 2:17 pm | David Swanson
After two stolen elections by Bush-Cheney, an election of Grandpa John "Bomb Bomb Iran" McCain and his sorority president sidekick -- whether honest or blatantly stolen and tolerated -- would have said something hugely depressing and debilitating about ... More >>
No, We're Not a Broken People
Wednesday, 30 December 2009, 11:47 am | David Swanson
In 2004 I began speaking at rallies and forums around the country on issues of peace and justice, something I've done off-and-on ever since. Up through 2008, it was extremely unusual for questions from the audience to consist of pure defeatism. In 2009, it ... More >>
David Swanson: An AVATAR Awakening
Tuesday, 29 December 2009, 10:26 am | David Swanson
Let's face it, if James Cameron had made a movie with the Iraqi resistance as the heroes and the U.S. military as the enemies, and had set it in Iraq or anywhere else on planet earth, the packed theaters viewing "Avatar" would have been replaced by ... More >>
Healthcare Mandate vs. the Constitution
Thursday, 24 December 2009, 11:25 am | David Swanson
Does the United States Constitution allow Congress to force people to purchase a product (health insurance) from a private corporation, and fine them or tax them if they refuse? The answer is a matter of debate, but there is little dispute that ... More >>
Reply To Frank Schaeffer's 'Obama Will Win'
Thursday, 24 December 2009, 11:17 am | David Swanson
I've appreciated much of Frank Schaeffer's commentary at The BRAD BLOG but his column here this week on Obama winning was an exception. Schaeffer labels himself an "Obama supporter" and explains that Obama supporters are "sticking with our President." ... More >>
Look Who Just Funded the Escalation
Thursday, 17 December 2009, 3:23 pm | David Swanson
The U.S. House of Representatives approved on Wednesday another $130 billion for the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and (it goes without saying) Pakistan, money that will be used to continue the wars and to escalate the war in Afghanistan. More >>
D Swanson: Don't Act Now, It's Not Too Late Yet
Thursday, 17 December 2009, 10:31 am | David Swanson
The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote today, Wednesday, December 16th, on a war funding bill that will pay for the escalation of the war in Afghanistan. Nobody will tell you that. More >>
David Swanson: Prosecuting Bush's Poodle
Tuesday, 15 December 2009, 10:51 am | David Swanson
Compare Tony Blair's latest confession to mass murder with Bush's. The BBC has just aired an interview of Blair in which he was asked whether he would have attacked Iraq even if he had known there were no "weapons of mass destruction" there. More >>
U.S. Peace Activists Express Disappointment
Monday, 14 December 2009, 11:13 am | David Swanson
representatives of several dozen U.S. antiwar groups posted an open letter to the Nobel Committee expressing regret that President Obama, so close upon his receipt of this honor, has opted to escalate the U.S. war in Afghanistan with the deployment ... More >>
Kucinich Circulating Resolutions To End Wars
Monday, 14 December 2009, 11:03 am | David Swanson
Following a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement: More >>
David Swanson Obama's Rejection Speech
Friday, 11 December 2009, 1:02 pm | David Swanson
That was not a peace prize acceptance speech. That was an infomercial for war. President Obama took the peace prize home with him, but left behind in Oslo his praise for war, his claims for war, and his view of an alternative and more peaceful approach ... More >>
Afghanistan: The US's 177th Colony
Tuesday, 1 December 2009, 4:10 pm | David Swanson
During a televised football game on Sunday, an announcer welcomed the members of the U.S. military viewing the game in 177 nations around the world. When the news came on, the topic was the same one it's been for weeks, speculation as to whether ... More >>
Weiner Amendment Vote on Friday Will Fail
Saturday, 7 November 2009, 5:11 pm | David Swanson
Word is that the full House will vote on national single-payer Medicare for All on Friday. This vote is a cover for the removal of an amendment that was in the House "healthcare" bill until Pelosi stripped it out. That amendment would have made it ... More >>
David Swanson: Did Obama/McCain Choice Matter?
Monday, 2 November 2009, 9:54 am | David Swanson
There appear to be two teams in Washington playing under the banners of elephants and donkeys. They have different platforms, use different rhetoric, call each other bad names, and (in the case of the elephants) filibuster bills and impeach and prosecute ... More >>
Did Obama/McCain Choice Matter?
Friday, 30 October 2009, 5:21 pm | David Swanson
There appear to be two teams in Washington playing under the banners of elephants and donkeys. They have different platforms, use different rhetoric, call each other bad names, and (in the case of the elephants) filibuster bills and impeach and prosecute ... More >>
