When my book ‘Searching Jenin’ was published soon after the Israeli massacre in the Jenin refugee camp in 2002, I was quizzed repeatedly by the media and many readers for conferring the word ‘massacre’ on what Israel has depicted as a...
04 October 2015
http://davidswanson.org/node/4933
Life is a very jumbled mixture. The pain of it, if you're awake and thinking, brings into your mind...
02 October 2015
In the week since it was announced that Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo, is to be released, to be returned to his family in the UK, there has been a huge sigh of relief from the many, many people who campaigned for...
24 September 2015
As documented in Douglas Blackmon's book, ...
24 September 2015
The Pope will speak to Congress on Thursday. No other institution on earth does more to destroy the habitability of the planet for future generations. Will the Pope raise his concerns with them or only when he's thousands of miles away...