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

20 February 2012
A crazy Republican attack that Obama himself agrees with
David Swanson
Imagine if a bunch of the craziest war-hungry Republicans in the House filmed themselves in a nutty bat-guano video packed with lies addressed to the President...
15 February 2012
A One Percenter Puts Over $200 Million into the Peace Movement
David Swanson
I'll tell you who did this below. First read part of his rather unusual letter:

"I have transferred to you as trustees $231 million...
12 February 2012
Do We Approve of Murder Based on Political Party? Pollsters Don't Want You to Know
David Swanson
A poll published on Wednesday at the Washington Post finds that a majority of even "liberal Democrats" approves of Obama killing US citizens. Of course, this...
09 February 2012
The State of Obama's 2008 Promises
David Swanson
Presidential candidate Barack Obama won the Democratic primary last time around largely on the strength of his extremely limited and inconsistent opposition to...
09 February 2012
The election we should be following
David Swanson
For progressives and populists around the country who take an interest in Congressional races there are always a few good challengers we might hope to send to...
09 February 2012
How Newt Gingrich saved the military industrial complex
David Swanson
The idea of economic conversion, of retooling and retraining pieces of the military industrial complex to build what other wealthy nations have (infrastructure...

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