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

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06 July 2013
Wartime U.S. Travelogue
David Swanson
In Washington Dulles airport I noticed a large advertisement. I'd seen it before and not paid attention. (No doubt that's why they saturate public space with...
30 June 2013
Sequester optionally applied only to good things
David Swanson
Spending cuts have been applied by Congress to both military and non-military spending.

In my view, the military cuts are much too small and the...
24 June 2013
Global rescue plan
David Swanson
When the wealthy nations of the world meet as the G8 or in any other gathering, it's interesting to imagine what they would do if they followed the golden rule...
16 June 2013
A built-in cure for war
David Swanson
Erin Niemela's recent proposal that we amend the Constitution to ban war is provocative and persuasive. Count me in. But I have a related idea that I think...
14 June 2013
Three things young people should know to save the world
David Swanson
Of course, old people should know these things too, and some small percentage does know them, but energy seems better invested in trying to teach them to young...
12 June 2013
How the Pentagon removes entire peoples
David Swanson
If we think at all about our government's military depopulating territory that it desires, we usually think of the long-ago replacement of native Americans...

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