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 August 2010
An honest look at Obama's first year
David Swanson
Most commentary on President Barack Obama either beats him up unfairly because he's not a Republican or cuts him extra slack because he's not a Republican. If...
18 July 2010
The crematorium of empires
David Swanson
On Wednesday U.S. senators from both political parties asked the president's representative to Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke what in the world the goal could...
05 July 2010
The peace movement's progress
David Swanson
The peace movement has made significant progress in the United States since its low point of late 2008, and just about everything anyone in it has done has...
30 June 2010
War escalation funding slated for this week in House
David Swanson
It's still not clear how they'll try to do it, but it is clear that our pressure is being felt.
The House majority whip asked Democrats how they would...
22 June 2010
An easy way to dramatically change Congress
David Swanson
There are lots of ways to change Congress that falsely appear easy, that would alter the rules and patterns of behavior if only Congress were already fixed and...
17 June 2010
Obama was created by our failure to impeach Bush
David Swanson
Remarks at the Rutherford Institute, June 16, 2010

I want to save most of the time we have for your questions, so I'll be brief and I'll start...

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