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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16 April 2007
Virtual election season
David Swanson
It is not election season.  It is citizen activism season.  The eternal election season is draining all sorts of energy away from our democracy.  And it's not...
12 April 2007
You can't hurt a troop by defunding a war
David Swanson
When Senator Russ Feingold and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid propose cutting off the funding for the war, they are proposing the only thing that can...
12 April 2007
Vonnegut dies without a country or religion
David Swanson
Kurt Vonnegut published over two dozen books, including 2005's "A Man Without a Country." It's a book that is brutally honest in its hopelessness, in fact – I...
07 April 2007
Heroes, sung and unsung
David Swanson
Last night in a bar in Austin, Texas, we held a family reunion for the peace movement.  The occasion was the presentation of the Camp Casey Peace Awards.  Much...
07 April 2007
Ten states Introduce Impeachment
David Swanson
In 10 U.S. states, either this year or last year or both, the state legislature has introduced and considered, though not yet passed, a bill to petition the U....
30 March 2007
Veto this
David Swanson
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is right to point Unitary Executive George W. Bush toward a copy of the Constitution.  The President (should Bush care to resume...

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