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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10 May 2011
This world and the world without war
David Swanson
The New York Times published an op-ed on May 7th by a professor here in Charlottesville, Va., arguing that celebrating the killing of Osama bin Laden is...
08 May 2011
What Osama bin Laden, Troy Davis, and you have in common
David Swanson
So, the United States invaded Mexico, lied about it, killed, raped, pillaged, and stole half the country for the cause of expanding slavery in our growing...
02 May 2011
Killing resolves nothing
David Swanson
The plane I was on landed in Washington, D.C., Sunday night, and the pilot came on the intercom to tell everyone to celebrate: our government had killed Osama...
27 April 2011
The cure for plutocracy: Strike!
David Swanson
How do you get politicians living off legalized bribery to criminalize bribery? How do you persuade the corporate media to report on the interests of flesh-and...
24 April 2011
White House website lying about your taxes
David Swanson
The White House has a handy website to mislead you about your tax dollars at Tax Receipt.
It claims...
18 April 2011
Did you just call me a Socialist?
David Swanson
On Friday on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, congress members spoke in defense of Medicare, Social Security, the Environmental Protection...

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