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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
(7 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 18, 2018 Greatest Crime on Earth
Remarks at No Bases Conference in Dublin, Ireland, November 18, 2018
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 7, 2017 76 Years of Pearl Harbor Lies
Donald Trump is tweeting about a particular spot in Hawaii. He visited it recently on his way to threaten war in Asia. It's a big feature this week in lots of U.S. magazines and newspapers. It has a lovely name that sounds like murder and blood because Japanese airplanes engaged in large-scale murder there in 1941: Pearl Harbor.
(15 comments) SHARE Monday, October 1, 2012 Nothing More Evil
If you try to think of something more evil than what we are now doing, you'll fail.
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, March 15, 2015 The Washington Post Will Kill Us All
"War with Iran is probably our best option." This is an actual headline from the Washington Post.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, May 16, 2011 60 More Days in Libya: Obama Does Bush Lawyers Proud
Now we know why Obama has gone to such outrageous lengths to keep Bush's lawyers out of prison, claiming powers of secrecy and immunity beyond Cheney's wildest dreams and pressuring foreign nations to clamp down on any outbreaks of law enforcement.
(18 comments) SHARE Friday, September 5, 2008 Why We're Planning to Prosecute Cheney and Bush
Next weekend in Andover, Mass., a group of attorneys, academics, and activists will gather to plan the prosecution of Dick Cheney, George Bush, and the lawyers and advisors who, together with them, are responsible for war crimes. The conference is open to the public and expected to be well attended: http://war-crimes.info
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 30, 2015 Invest in Activism, Not Bernie Sanders
The real question is not whether the next President will be a walking disaster, but what sort of popular movement will have been developed to resist it.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 14, 2012 Is Impeachment Gone for Good?
Henry Kissinger's winning of the Nobel Peace Prize didn't, in the end, eliminate satire from the earth (or peace prizes for war-makers, for that matter). Conceivably, the impeachment of Bill Clinton and the lack of impeachment of George W. Bush haven't eliminated presidential impeachment from the Constitution.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 24, 2012 Now That Was a Debate
Participating were Jill Stein, Rocky Anderson, Virgil Goode, and Gary Johnson.
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 16, 2017 Pull Down That Statue of the U.S. Constitution
The U.S. Constitution, along with the Declaration of Independence, has a whole marble building dedicated to its worship: the National Archives in D.C., plus the Constitution Center in Philadelphia. It's generally taught in U.S. schools as something in the past, not something to be improved upon -- hardly even to be questioned.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, March 16, 2009 Torture Revealed Yet again
As with the evidence that Bush, Cheney, and gang intentionally lied us into a war, or the evidence of illegal and unconstitutional spying, each time a major new piece of evidence of torture emerges, it is impossible not to hope that this is the one that will compel the Justice Department or Congress or the courts or the American people to act decisively.
(7 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 22, 2017 Why Impeach Donald Trump
What are the grounds for impeachment?
They will likely be piling up rapidly. President Trump did use Day 1 to advise the CIA that the United States should have stolen all of Iraq's oil. But here is a place to start. We already have a president who is violating two clauses in the U.S. Constitution, one forbidding any gifts or benefits from foreign governments, the other forbidding the same from the U.S. or states.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, March 27, 2015 Can Anne Hathaway Help End the Mindset That Creates Wars?
Can it matter that a famous actress will play a drone pilot on stage in New York and play it as a troubled murderer with an updated effort to wash out the damn spot of blood on her famous hands?