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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04 September 2011
I just found 29 million jobs
David Swanson
No, not 29 million job offers. I'm no better at applying for jobs than you are, and my town offers nothing but dead-end McJobs or positions in the military...
01 September 2011
Cheney's kettle logic
David Swanson
Sigmund Freud once mentioned the defense offered by a man who was accused by his neighbor of having returned a kettle in a damaged condition. In the first...
31 August 2011
An upcoming Charlottesville conference highlights the importance of whistleblowers when addressing the corruption present in military contracting
David Swanson
YOU MAY have heard something about a budget crisis in Washington this summer. Were you aware that in the midst of it the House of Representatives passed a...
25 August 2011
How the budget cutting Is going to go down
David Swanson
If Snoopy had ever pointed out to Charlie Brown that Lucy was just going to yank the football away again at the last second, Charlie would have only heard...
19 August 2011
Richard Clarke is being too nice to George Tenet
David Swanson
Former National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-Terrorism Richard Clarke suggests that former CIA Director George Tenet...
25 July 2011
If Bush or Giuliani had been Stoltenberg
David Swanson
The murder spree in Norway was apparently the work of a Norwegian, not a group of foreigners, and for various other reasons the comparison is not exact....

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