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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20 July 2011
Balance the budget on the backs of billionaires
David Swanson
The wealthiest nation on earth is not actually obliged to starve our senior citizens. We don't need a military 670% more expensive than the next largest one...
18 July 2011
Move the budget debate to one of those democracies we're bombing into place
David Swanson
Imagine how radically different the current debate over the Giant Debt Ceiling Monster would look if we moved it to one of those nations we're bombing into a...
12 July 2011
Years later: Human Rights Watch announces that Bush and Cheney tortured -- What gives?
David Swanson
Statutes of limitations for torture not resulting in death have passed. The DOJ has refused to prosecute 99 of 101 cases of torture-to-death that it looked at...
09 July 2011
The "There's Plenty of Money Act of 2012"
David Swanson
112th CONGRESS
1st Session
To highly resolve that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the United States...
07 July 2011
We just stopped Congress from giving the power of war to presidents
David Swanson
"What's the point?" "We never win!" "Why bother trying?"
This time we won.
This is the point. Congressman Buck McKeon and Senator John McCain...
04 July 2011
King George III won: Happy Fourth of July!
David Swanson
The Declaration of Independence is best remembered as a declaration of war, a war declared on the grounds that we wanted our own flag. The sheer stupidity and...

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