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

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22 June 2015

Books about how World War I started, and to a lesser degree how World War II started, have tended in recent years to explain...

16 June 2015

I’m not sure if there’s been a better written book published yet this year than Ukraine: Zbig’s Grand Chessboard and How...

16 June 2015


The Guardian on Monday made...

22 May 2015

The abortion debates is the last place I would have looked for inspiration in methods of handling the major political and social problems of the...

19 May 2015


The number one error, engaged in by the majority of people, is failing to be an activist. The world's going to hell, countless...

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