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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26 May 2013
Memorial Day THIS
David Swanson
Imagine if at some point during the 1990s or 1980s the President of the United States had given a speech. And this was his speech:

My fellow...
13 May 2013
Why we allow the destruction of our planet
David Swanson
It's not enough to point out that our political system is completely corrupted by money, including money from coal and oil and nukes and gas. Of course it is...
13 May 2013
Death penalty dying out
David Swanson
Most of the world's governments no longer use the death penalty. Among wealthy nations there is one exception remaining. The United States is among the top...
02 May 2013
There's tar sands all over your Facebook
David Swanson
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's new advocacy group FWD.us is running TV ads in support of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and oil drilling in the Arctic...
26 April 2013
Libyan door to Syrian door to Iran
David Swanson
"Our intelligence community does assess with varying degrees of confidence that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons on a small scale in Syria,...
23 April 2013
Time for a Department of Peace
David Swanson
I'm honored to have accepted the position of Secretary of Peace in the newly formed Green Shadow Cabinet. Of course, I cannot contrast my positions with those...

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