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 September 2007
Kerry's sense of timing
David Swanson
As police officers were torturing a University of Florida student with a taser in the back of a lecture hall as punishment for asking inconvenient questions of...
10 September 2007
Questions for General Petraeus
David Swanson
Are you here to communicate your own view, that of the White House, or both?

Please name all the people with whom you have had communications in...
07 September 2007
Get out of the Valley of Elah
David Swanson
I spent a day meeting with Congress Members and their staffers, urging them to end the occupation of Iraq, and having them tell me they would never "defund...
05 September 2007
World War III
David Swanson
The administration of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney is set on a course that leads directly to a third world war.  And a third world war leads almost...
30 August 2007
Secret to forcing compliance with subpoenas
David Swanson
On April 10th, the House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed the Justice Department for papers and Emails related to the apparently politically motivated firings of...
28 August 2007
The 18 percent Congress
David Swanson
If you were a member of Congress, wouldn't you behave completely differently from how most members of Congress behave?  I mean, if you had not gone through the...

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