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Swanson: Sweat Shop Workers Tour US Colleges
Friday, 24 February 2006, 11:17 am | David Swanson
"It would take half our salary to buy one of the sweat shirts we produce," Josefina Hernandez Ponce told students at the University of Virginia on Wednesday night. The classroom was packed to capacity with students in every seat and squeezed in on the ... More >>
Swanson: Road to Peace Goes Through Santa Cruz
Monday, 20 February 2006, 10:23 am | David Swanson
The following are remarks I made last Wednesday night in Santa Cruz, California, at an event held in the Veterans Hall, where the star speaker was Medea Benjamin, and where a group of Raging Grannies with pink aprons and rolling pins belted out ... More >>
Founding Fathers, Baseball, Apple Pie, Impeachment
Monday, 20 February 2006, 10:22 am | David Swanson
Remarks prepared for February 18th pro-impeachment rally in colonial dress in Charlottesville, Va., home of Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe, and near the home of James Madison. More >>
Swanson: How You -- Yes You -- Can End the War
Tuesday, 14 February 2006, 2:15 pm | David Swanson
Simple acts and a little courage have worked wonders in the world. Nonviolent people's movements won democratic reforms in Russia, booted the British out of India, resisted the Nazi occupation in Denmark, drove a dictator out of El Salvador and another out ... More >>
Swanson: Debating Impeachment Among Democrats
Tuesday, 14 February 2006, 10:29 am | David Swanson
Can you even imagine Republicans, even if they were in a minority in Congress, debating whether or not to call for the impeachment of a Democratic president known and documented as guilty of a wide range of high crimes and misdemeanors? In particular, if you ... More >>
David Swanson: Impeachment Versus Arianna
Friday, 10 February 2006, 1:23 pm | David Swanson
Joe Scarborough hosted a discussion of impeachment last night on MSNBC. There were four guests, two explicitly labeled as liberals, and two as conservatives. The conservatives were Tucker Carlson and Pat Buchanan. The liberals were Liz Holtzman and Arianna ... More >>
David Swanson: Inequality and War
Thursday, 9 February 2006, 12:20 am | David Swanson
Ending the extreme inequality of wealth and well-being in the United States would end the war in Iraq. Ending the war in Iraq and others like it would go a long way toward reducing the inequality. More >>
Iran And Venezuela Plan War On Israel
Tuesday, 7 February 2006, 1:25 pm | David Swanson
(AP) - According to the minutes of a recent secret meeting, obtained by the Associated Press, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran told President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, "Iran is thinking of flying reconnaissance aircraft with fighter cover over ... More >>
David Swanson: Bring Regime Change Home
Tuesday, 7 February 2006, 1:06 pm | David Swanson
Bring Regime Change Home By David Swanson From: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/7483 More >>
David Swanson: Woolsey's Way to Peace
Wednesday, 18 January 2006, 2:31 pm | David Swanson
We've all heard the line. "That would make us look weak on national security." That line is supposed to be based on public opinion, not just the opinions of media corporations and pundits working for Pentagon-funded think tanks. That line is supposed to have ... More >>
Swanson: War Lies And Journalistic Constipation
Friday, 13 January 2006, 1:59 pm | David Swanson
David Sirota recently documented instances of what he called Rectal Journalism. He described this sort of reporting as "based on reporters and pundits simply pulling stuff right out of their ass." More >>
Most Popular Idea @ Out of Iraq Event? Impeachment
Wednesday, 11 January 2006, 11:14 am | David Swanson
A long list of peace organizations put together over 150 town hall forums last Saturday on the topic of getting out of Iraq. Reports, and audio and video, from dozens of these events have been posted at www.afterdowningstreet.org . What I gather from ... More >>
A Peace Movement Demanding the Rule of Law
Monday, 9 January 2006, 2:16 pm | David Swanson
Remarks prepared for Out of Iraq event in Washington, D.C., on day of 164 Out of Iraq Events around the country, Jan. 7, 2006. More >>
Greed and Gall: Asking Iraq to Pay for Occupation
Monday, 9 January 2006, 1:37 pm | David Swanson
The minority of Americans who support the war largely do so out of a sense of responsibility to Iraqis. They favor reconstruction and restoration as well as ongoing occupation. And most of the majority who favor ending the war support the financing of reconstruction, ... More >>
What Fate Awaits NSA Spying Whistleblower
Tuesday, 3 January 2006, 1:13 pm | David Swanson
Can there be any doubt that if the White House finds out who leaked the story of its illegal spying, fierce retribution will follow? Another way of asking that question is: Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? More >>
David Swanson: Can Cheney Save Bush's Presidency?
Saturday, 31 December 2005, 2:09 pm | David Swanson
Talk of censure and impeachment has begun swirling around President Bush. Can Vice President Cheney come to the rescue? He will do so if enough of Bush's opponents adopt the position of this Philadelphia Daily News op-ed writer -- the position that ... More >>
D. Swanson: Rumsfeld Admits to "Ghosting" Detainee
Friday, 30 December 2005, 2:59 pm | David Swanson
U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has admitted that he "ghosted" a detainee, meaning that he made the decision to hold a prisoner without keeping any records of the fact. More >>
Classified Intelligence Leaked to Make War Case
Friday, 30 December 2005, 1:04 pm | David Swanson
A new report looks into instances in which the Bush Administration leaked classified information to support its case that Iraq was a threat to the United States. More >>
David Swanson: A Man Without a Country
Wednesday, 28 December 2005, 3:15 pm | David Swanson
Kurt Vonnegut, at age 82, has published over two dozen books. His latest is called "A Man Without a Country." It's a book that is brutally honest in its hopelessness, in fact – I think – overly hopeless, and yet humorous. It may even be hopeless in ... More >>
David Swanson: Fog Facts
Wednesday, 28 December 2005, 1:27 pm | David Swanson
Larry Beinhart, author of "Wag the Dog" and "The Librarian," has done us a remarkable service with the publication of a new small nonfiction book titled "Fog Facts." He has given language to a new and critically important concept, that of the fact that ... More >>
