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

09 January 2012
Corporate Personhood worse, ending it easier than you think
David Swanson
Don't take it from me. Take it from the book being published today that will mainstream the movement to end corporate personhood: "Corporations Are Not People...
02 January 2012
My New Year's resolutions
David Swanson
Exercise. Lose weight. Be nicer. Work with not just this year but many future years and generations and centuries in mind.

Work with an...
29 December 2011
Stop picking on the poor plutocrats
David Swanson
I stopped by a corporate chain bookstore this week and checked out the "Current Affairs" section. I was a little surprised to discover that according to a...
27 December 2011
Prospects for peace on Earth
David Swanson
This time of year is ideal for reflecting on the miracle of Christmas 1914, that famous temporary truce and friendship between opposing sides in the midst of a...
24 December 2011
Obama again unconstitutionally claims unconstitutional War Powers in a signing statement
David Swanson
As you know if you've been awake the past several years, Bush began the unconstitutional practice of rewriting laws with signing statements, there was a little...
20 December 2011
Set your doomsday clock to 11:51
David Swanson
The National Defense Authorization Act is not a leap from democracy to tyranny, but it is another major step on a steady and accelerating decade-long march...

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