David Swanson

David Swanson is the author of "When the World Outlawed War," "War Is A Lie" and "Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union." He blogs at http://davidswanson.org and http://warisacrime.org and works for the online activist organization http://rootsaction.org

Articles by Author

07 July 2006
Command rape
David Swanson
Suzanne Swift's story begins in an all-too-familiar way. A dead-end job, a friendly military recruiter, a promise that signing-up as military police would mean...
11 June 2006
No permanent bases: Passed both houses, removed in Conference Committee
David Swanson
When the House and the Senate pass similar but not identical bills, they create a conference committee to work out the differences.  When they both passed...
11 June 2006
Nine state Democratic parties back impeachment: Whose table is it, Nancy?
David Swanson
Nominal leader of the Democrats in Congress Nancy Pelosi, following talking points produced by the Republican National Committee, recently told her fellow Dems...
09 June 2006
Safe passage on the Earth
David Swanson
In 1975 Dorothy T. Samuel published  "Safe Passage on City Streets," a book that examined the state of mind and behavior of people who tended not to get...
06 June 2006
Let's stay in Iraq until it's peaceful or we're sane, whichever comes first
David Swanson
Have you ever heard someone try to argue that the Iraq War was a mistake but that now the proper course is to continue the mistake a bit longer or to carefully...
06 June 2006
Eleven excellent reasons not to join the military
David Swanson
I just read an excellent book from http://www.endthewartour.org  called "10 Excellent Reasons Not to Join the...

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