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White Phosphorous: The U.S. Says It's Illegal
Wednesday, 28 December 2005, 1:25 pm | David Swanson
The U.S. military used white phosphorous as a weapon in Fallujah, and the U.S. military says such use is illegal. That's one heck of a fog fact (Larry Beinhart's term for a fact that is neither secret nor known). This fact has appeared in an article in ... More >>
Bush Refuses FOIA Request on Pre-War Intelligence
Wednesday, 28 December 2005, 1:17 pm | David Swanson
House Judiciary Committee Democratic staff members report that the White House and the Departments of State and Defense have for six months refused to comply with a request filed under the Freedom of Information Act by 52 Congress Members – a request ... More >>
PDA Report: London International Peace Conference
Thursday, 15 December 2005, 3:17 pm | David Swanson
London, England, December 10, 2005--Fellow PDA National Board Member Steve Cobble and I participated in an historic international peace conference in London on December 10 and in various related events the same week. We met with several Members of Parliament ... More >>
David Swanson: Scotland - Stop the War!
Friday, 9 December 2005, 4:41 pm | David Swanson
Today, Cindy Sheehan and Scottish mothers who have lost their sons in Iraq held a rally outside the Scottish parliament, spoke at a cross-party meeting of Members of the Scottish Parliament, were welcomed to the City of Glasgow by the Lord Provost, ... More >>
Mayor of London Calls Bushies "A Gang of Thugs"
Thursday, 8 December 2005, 2:41 pm | David Swanson
Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London, England, threw a bash for anti-war activists this evening and denounced the Bush Administration as "a gang of thugs." He praised the work of those present from the US and the UK who have worked to end the war, ... More >>
Progressive Primary Challenge to Hilary Launched
Tuesday, 6 December 2005, 3:48 pm | David Swanson
On Tuesday in New York, Jonathan Tasini will announce the launch of his campaign for United States Senate, challenging Hilary Clinton in the Democratic primary. More >>
David Swanson: An International Peace Movement
Monday, 5 December 2005, 1:38 pm | David Swanson
On Saturday, December 10, in London, England, leaders of the peace movement against the Iraq war from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Iraq will meet to strategize. There is hope that the tide has already turned against the occupation, and that a ... More >>
David Swanson: A Congressman For Impeachment
Tuesday, 29 November 2005, 3:04 pm | David Swanson
While no congressional incumbent has yet introduced articles of impeachment or a resolution of inquiry into grounds for impeachment of Bush and Cheney, numerous 2006 candidates are committed to doing so. I know because they're contacting ImpeachPAC, ... More >>
David Swanson: Cindy's Day in Court
Friday, 18 November 2005, 10:41 am | David Swanson
Cindy Sheehan has a court date Wednesday morning in Washington, D.C., and faces up to 6 months in jail for the charge of demonstrating without a permit, as a result of the civil disobedience action at the White House in September at which Cindy and ... More >>
John Bonifaz: A Candidate For The Rest Of Us
Monday, 14 November 2005, 1:29 pm | David Swanson
John Bonifaz is seriously considering running for election next year as Massachusetts Secretary of State, or more properly, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A victory for him would be a victory of national importance for election reform and ... More >>
David Swanson: Politically Strategic Impeachment
Monday, 14 November 2005, 12:42 am | David Swanson
While it would of course be good for the world for Bush and Cheney to be impeached, convicted, and sent packing, would it be politically advantageous for a Congress Member to introduce articles of impeachment? And would it benefit the Democratic ... More >>
Swanson: The Bush-Cheney Ethics Refresher Course
Tuesday, 8 November 2005, 12:31 am | David Swanson
Apparently the new "ethics refresher course" at the White House is going to focus on reminding White House staff that classified information is not supposed to be told to reporters. More >>
David Swanson: I Can't Wait
Thursday, 3 November 2005, 10:53 am | David Swanson
I don't know about the world, but certainly I can't wait any longer to end this war or to impeach this president. One more death, American or Iraqi, is too many. More >>
David Swanson: Writing in an Age of Terror
Tuesday, 1 November 2005, 2:23 pm | David Swanson
Writing in an Age of Terror By David Swanson Remarks delivered at National Writers Union conference in Philadelphia, October, 29, 2005, opening forum with Ed Herman, Danny Schechter, and Linn Washington, on "Writing in an Age of Terror." ... More >>
David Swanson: Peering Under the Plame Outing
Monday, 17 October 2005, 11:13 am | David Swanson
I wrote these remarks down on Thursday, when a Washington Post columnist was pleading with Patrick Fitzgerald to please just go away, and a New York Times news article was claiming that if Lewis Libby leaked anything, he did so with the best of intentions. ... More >>
Dems Go After Bennett, Salem Radio Network, FCC
Monday, 10 October 2005, 1:02 pm | David Swanson
A growing list of Congress Members are not just speaking out about Bill Bennett's recent racist remarks on his radio show. Some of them are pressuring the network that airs his show, Salem Radio Network, and asking the sponsors that fund it to ... More >>
In Support of Weakness on National Security
Tuesday, 4 October 2005, 12:21 am | David Swanson
A senior staff person for one of the most progressive and courageous members of Congress recently advised a room full of peace activists that they won't be able to persuade Democrats to oppose the war simply by showing them polls finding that a majority ... More >>
The Popularity of Peace and Presidents
Monday, 12 September 2005, 11:31 am | David Swanson
Numerous media organizations regularly poll members of the public on whether they approve of the President's job performance. Uniformly, these polls show a dramatic upsurge in approval of Bush immediately following the attacks of September 11, 2001, ... More >>
Missing the Forest for the Uprooted Floating Trees
Monday, 5 September 2005, 12:15 am | David Swanson
The trillion dollar question has long been: How do we get the major media outlets in this country to notice that the White House is run by oil barons who launch illegal wars based on lies, defund everything else, and destroy the environment at every ... More >>
David Swanson Blogs From Camp Casey, Crawford TX
Tuesday, 30 August 2005, 10:57 am | David Swanson
I came to Crawford today, and it's a little different from DC in several ways, but mostly it's hotter. I've been to both Camp Caseys, and am blogging this from the cool of the Crawford Peace House. At Camp Casey 1, I went across the road and talked ... More >>
