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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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15 December 2010
Richard Holbrooke's deathbed conversion
David Swanson
For all the talk of strategic counterinsurgency that oozes out of Washington, and all the manuals explaining that 80% of our investment in a nation-building...
08 December 2010
Pearl Harbor: A successful war lie
David Swanson
An excerpt from "War Is A Lie" War is a Lie

One type of "defensive" war is one that follows a successful provocation of aggression from the...
26 November 2010
"Die for a Tie" -- How the Korean War began
David Swanson
An excerpt from the just published book "War Is A Lie" War is a Lie
After two world wars with a depression in between...
20 November 2010
U.S. wars are bankrupting the world
David Swanson
The endless and infinite "war on terra" is bankrupting the planet. I don't mean moral bankruptcy; that goes without saying. I mean financial bankruptcy. And...
08 November 2010
One place to cut spending: Kidnapping and torture
David Swanson
I know it seems like more of a noble sacrifice to cut spending on things people less fortunate than ourselves need, but can somebody explain to me why it...
27 October 2010
An ocean full of oil
David Swanson
Earlier this year, we put millions of barrels of oil, billions of cubic feet of gas, and 1.5 million gallons of chemical dispersants into the Gulf of Mexico....

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