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

15 March 2010
I'm Down With Dennis
David Swanson
Let me get this straight. The Senate will pass a public option if the House will. And the House will, because it already did. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi...
06 March 2010
Jay Bybee questioned as prelude to prosecution
David Swanson
Susan Harman, who by now deserves some kind of medal and who will be joining in a protest of John Yoo on March 19th, questioned Jay Bybee yesterday about his...
04 March 2010
How Kucinich's resolution to end the war will help us end the war
David Swanson
Tomorrow, Thursday, March 24th, Congressman Dennis Kucinich plans to introduce a privileged resolution to end the Afghan War. The resolution requires that the...
27 February 2010
Does DOJ agree with Yoo on testicles, villages, and nukes?
David Swanson
At Friday's hearing on torture memos, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy asked Acting Deputy Attorney General Gary Grindler whether the...
25 February 2010
Pre-partisan America, 1789-1801
David Swanson
I'm not a big fan of post-partisan America, a notion that seems to amount to running the government through two political parties but taking care that one of...
21 February 2010
Yoo, Bybee, and disinformation
David Swanson
Everything you're reading about torture lawyers John Yoo and Jay Bybee getting off the hook is wrong. They are not torture lawyers, they are not off the hook...

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