March 24, 2012
Taking a Mother’s Child Away By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/taking-mothers-child-away One of the good things about speaking at big conferences is that people come up to you afterwards believing you have the power to change the world. One of the bad things about speaking at big conferences is that people come up to [...]
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March 24, 2012
The Shifting Strategies of Empire By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/shifting-strategies-empire Remarks at the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) Conference: President Obama this week declared the war on Iraq to be an honorable success that has given us a brighter future. Are you fired up? Ready to go? Eric Holder this month explained [...]
Tags: Arab Spring, Barack Obama, David Swanson, Eric Holder, Iraq, Iraq War, John McCain, United State, World War I, World War II
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December 27, 2011
24 Items Not to Hoard By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/24-items-not-hoard 1. Toilet Paper. Instead of hoarding toilet paper for the coming disaster and anarchy that should never be out of your mind if you want to remain easily manipulable by cynical demagogues, invest in providing clean and accessible bathrooms for the homeless. This [...]
Tags: Collect, Compulsive hoarding, Hoard, hoarder, Humor, Recreation, Shopping, Toilet paper, United States, Wikipedia
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July 26, 2011
Debt Is A Crisis By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/debt-crisis What if the imminent banging of Uncle Sam‘s skull into the looming debt ceiling isn’t a crisis, but the very concept of debt is? The debt ceiling has been lifted numerous times without fanfare or fainting spells. All we face this week is a fabricated opportunity to [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Economic, Great Depression, John Boehner, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Uncle Sam, United State, Wall Street
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July 6, 2011
Every once in a while the news for those of you who think that decency and equality and freedom really means something gets good. The non stop erosion of liberty by the rampant and incorrigible forces of reaction is what seems so strong. Yet the fact that their power rests in opinion is proven time [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Barack Obama, Howard McKeon, John McCain, Libya, President pro tempore of the United States Senate, Taliban, United State, United States, United States Armed Forces, United States Congress, United States Constitution, War Powers Resolution
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July 5, 2011
The damaged units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Photograph: AIR PHOTO SERVICE / HO/EPA How did the thinking go? Well he does seems to have been anti-nuclear, with good reason BUT why the change in opinion and then this? The answer is quite simple, at least for me, but trust me that [...]
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July 1, 2011
The Dominique Strauss-Kahn Rorschach Test By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58337 There’s a great deal of disappointment, even distress, in the air as news spreads that Dominique Strauss-Kahn might not be charged with rape (or attempted rape, or sexual assault). He’s guilty, the victim’s character is being attacked in order to protect him, and the Culture of [...]
Tags: DNA, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, International Monetary Fund, New York Times, Ralph Nader, Rape, Sexual assault, United States
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June 27, 2011
When the Public Rises, We’ll Want an Ally in Congress By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58303 For the majority of people in the United States — a majority does not vote, a majority believes the government is broken, a majority thinks our public policy is headed in the wrong direction — the fact that we call this [...]
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June 21, 2011
US Mayors Pass First Anti-War Resolution Since 1971 – The Organizers Back Story! By Maria Allwine (Fund Our Communities, Pledge of Resistance-Baltimore, MD Green Party, Southern Christian Leadership Conference-Baltimore, Healthcare NOW of MD) http://warisacrime.org/node/58235 The US Conference of Mayors just passed an historic resolution urging Congress and the President to end the wars in Iraq [...]
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June 21, 2011
Afghan Withdrawal: Obama Lied, Soon Many Will Have Died By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58232 The United States has about 200,000 military personnel in Afghanistan, half of them troops, half of them contractors. President Barack Obama put over two-thirds of that number there, first with a big escalation in 2009 that everyone refuses to pay the slightest [...]
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June 13, 2011
Washington Post Wants Endless War By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58137 The Pentagon Washington Post has yet to mention Section 1034 of the Defense Authorization Act of 2012, but you can expect it — if it passes the Senate — to show up in many a future editorial, as it will give presidents the “legal” (although unconstitutional) [...]
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May 21, 2011
The Media Is a Curable Disease By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/57921 Rupert Murdoch, who got his start in business marketing rats and manure, has chosen to deny Italy access to a television network that has presented critical coverage of both Murdoch and of leading Italian media baron and prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi. The network, Current TV, is [...]
Tags: Al Gore, David Swanson, Fox News, Fox News Channel, Janine Jackson, Olive oil, Oliver North, Rupert Murdoch, Silvio Berlusconi, United States, Yochai Benkler
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May 19, 2011
Trigger happy murderers in NATO are basically the new cancer on the block in the Middle East. These European invading barbarians know nothing but killing as far as the troops are concerned. Fresh from glory of several thousand years in the killing fields of Europe by air land and sea these new SS Regiments havea true obedience [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Bundeswehr, Hamid Karzai, middle east, NATO, Protest, Takhar Province, Taloqan
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May 17, 2011
Subscribe to FFF Email Update Subscribe to Freedom Daily DONATE TO FFF Hornberger’s Blog Monday, May 16, 2010 Hornberger’s Blog Index Information about RSS REMINDER: The Jacob Hornberger Show every Saturday at 7-8 pm EST. Listen and watch live on the Internet: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-future-of-freedom-foundation America’s Post-9/11 Turn toward Dictatorship by Jacob G. Hornberger Among the most potent [...]
Tags: Bashar-al Assad, Constitution, Demographics of Syria, Federal government of the United States, Future of Freedom Foundation, Jacob G. Hornberger, Law, Syria, United State, United States Constitution, US Constitution
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May 14, 2011
In a memorable sentence you can read that..”The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.” George Orwell With that in mind it is easy to come to a solid conclusion that the major mover and shaker in [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Geneva Conventions, Howard McKeon, Location of Osama bin Laden, Osama BinLaden, United States, United States House Committee on Armed Services, War in Afghanistan (2001–present), War on Terror
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May 14, 2011
Afghanistan: war without end? Obama promised no open-ended occupation – and to draw down forces from July. A 2.5% cut is hardly an encouraging start Share68 Comments (94) David Swanson guardian.co.uk, Thursday 12 May 2011 19.31 BST Article history General David Petraeus, commander of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan, greets US defence secretary [...]
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May 12, 2011
Tomgram: William Astore, A New Age of “Enlightened” War Posted by William Astore at 10:00am, May 12, 2011. In case you hadn’t noticed, they are — no kidding around — absolutely the niftiest non-humans on Earth. I’m speaking about the special operations force of Navy SEALs that took out Osama bin Laden. They and their special ops [...]
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May 12, 2011
Afghanistan: war without end? The Guardian Obama promised no open-ended occupation – and to draw down forces from July. A 2.5% cut is hardly an encouraging start David Swanson guardian.co.uk, Thursday 12 May 2011 19.31 BST General David Petraeus, commander of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan, greets US defence secretary Robert Gates upon his [...]
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May 12, 2011
Harvey Wasserman on How We’ll Survive and Win By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/57794 VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/v/w6509ij1PLM?hl TRANSCRIPT: DAVID SWANSON: Okay, we’re recording, this is David Swanson, I’m speaking with Harvey Wasserman, long time wonderful activist, author, author among other of wonderful books of “Solartopia,” and Harvey, you were emailing me yesterday a little bit about success stories. [...]
Tags: Anti-nuclear movement, David Swanson, Denmark, Harvey Wasserman, Japan, Larry Bogart, New York City, United States
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May 9, 2011
This World and the World Without War By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/57777 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 actually a good thing, because in so celebrating we are building solidarity with those we view as part [...]
Tags: Bertrand Russell, Chris Hedges, David Swanson, Jonathan Haidt, Joseph Conrad, New York Times, Osama bin Laden, Primo Levi, United States, War
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May 9, 2011
NY Times Takes on Pentagon Spending With Two Hands Tied Behind Its Back By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/57778 The New York Times has posted seven super-short columns on how to cut the U.S. military. All seven seem to support cutting the military in one way or another. That’s excellent, and I don’t mean to complain, but . [...]
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May 9, 2011
The Predators: Where is Your Democracy? By Kathy Kelly http://warisacrime.org/node/57779 On May 4, 2011, CNN World News asked whether killing Osama bin Laden was legal under international law. Other news commentary has questioned whether it would have been both possible and advantageous to bring Osama bin Laden to trial rather than kill him. World attention [...]
Tags: Federally Administered Tribal Areas, General Atomics MQ-1 Predator, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, Kathy Kelly, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, United States, Unmanned aerial vehicle
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May 9, 2011
The predatory capital project and its partner the imperial project are fast running out of the fresh kill zones they require in the killing fields they so euphemistically called the “new world” or the “third world” Marx clearly predicted that there would have to be a massive expansion of the predatory beast into the rest of the world, [...]
Tags: Anarcho-Syndicalism, Asia, Bakunin, Elite, Karl Marx, Latin America, London, Marx, Marxism, Mikhail Bakunin, United States
Posted in Anarchism, Bakunin, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Chomsky, Consent, Counterpunch, D Room, Democracy, Democracy Now!, Dirty Energy, disaster, Dissent, economic measures, Economics, Economy, Education, Elites, Emma Goldmann, Englehardt, Escobar, European Foreign Policy, Fascism, Fisk, Foreign Policy, Galeano, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Indigenous, Indigenous Australians, Jason Ditz, Labor, Leon Panetta, MI 6, Military, Military madmen, Miscarriage of Justice, Mission Creep, NATO, nuclear, Obama, Obama warmonger, oil, people's protests, Pilger, Predator Drone, Propaganda, Protest, Protests, Ray McGovern, Rudolf Rocker, Rupert Murdoch, Sabrosky, Stateless socialism, Swanson, Tom Dispatch, torture, Unemployment, University education, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US war crimes, War, War Crimes, War is a crime | No Comments »
May 9, 2011
After bin Laden Hit, U.S. Aides Raise Dubious Hopes for Peace by Gareth Porter, May 09, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Barack Obama and top administration officials have taken advantage of the killing of Osama bin Laden to establish a new narrative suggesting the event will pave the way for negotiations [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Gareth Porter, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Taliban, The Real News, Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil, White House
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May 8, 2011
In a recent video interview at the Real News site there is some very interesting information. The whole interview should be watched. You can do that at http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=6731. It starts with the news that S & P has said a few things about the US economy. The witch doctors of financial boogie fever have spoken But they seem to [...]
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May 8, 2011
While the establishment media was busy parroting President Obama’s announcement of Osama bin Laden’s supposed assassination, reporting the unsubstantiated claims as if they were unquestionable facts, much of the so-called “alternative” press was far morecautious — and accurate, it turns out. But more importantly, with the new official storyline indicating that bin Laden was in fact unarmed, bigger and [...]
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May 3, 2011
At the end of the day is what some people think is a fairly overused saying, but sometimes it covers the situation. Whatever you may think of Bin Laden and Afghanistan you really need to work out what their position was that led to their actions. It would take a fairly obstinate person to disregard [...]
Tags: Arab people, Crusades, Israel, middle east, Moshe Dayan, United Nations, United States, Zionism
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April 26, 2011
How Americans Can Get Up and Stand Up By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/57631 In December 2009, psychologist Bruce Levine published an article at Alternet called “Are Americans a Broken People?” His timing couldn’t have been better. Americans of good will and bad analysis were suffering a severe fit of Obamanation withdrawal. The article was [...]
Tags: Alternet, Barack Obama, Bruce Levine, David Swanson, Democratic Party, United States, Wal-Mart, Wall Street
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April 23, 2011
Libya: another neocon war Submitted by davidswanson on Thu, 2011-04-21 19:19 Libya By David Swanson, The Guardian Liberal supporters of this ‘humanitarian intervention’ have merely become useful idiots of the same old nefarious purposes Muammar Gaddafi‘s deals with the west may have helped him tighten his grip on the Libyan people. Photograph: Louafi Larbi/ReutersThe US [...]
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April 23, 2011
On the Way to Kabul Submitted by davidswanson on Sat, 2011-04-23 01:59 Afghanistan By Jean Athey Dubai Airport, On the Way to Kabul I am fortunate to have been invited to accompany Fahima Vorgetts of Women for Afghan Women (WAW) on a trip to visit the projects funded by WAW in Kabul and nearby villages. [...]
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April 21, 2011
Libya and hindsight By BiteBack Publishing Hindsight can be a troublesome thing. I distinctly remember ranting on this very blog about Gaddafi’s barbaric treatment of his own people. I never went so far as to suggest that we should send in the gunboats, so to speak, but rest assured, I thought it. When I [...]
Tags: David Cameron, Gaddafi, Iraq War, Libya, Misurata, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Peter Brookes, Tim Hetherington
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April 18, 2011
This is a very insightful offering from David Swanson. Swanson captures many of the realities in Afghanistan and not just the so called realpolitik the imperial project is peddling to the Middle East in the same way that a drug dealer deals with his clients who he hopes will become hopelessly addicted to his product. We [...]
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March 31, 2011
As part of another antiwar post the following appears. Australian politicians who can not get into the fight quickly enough and donate anyone’s life except their own should try reading what war is about. First as Swanson notes st his site it srats continues and is always a lie. It never achieves a thing of any use. [...]
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March 30, 2011
On Visiting an Unwinnable War By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/visiting-unwinnable-war I’ll be visiting my nation’s longest war next week in Afghanistan, thanks to a wonderful organization called Voices for Creative Nonviolence which seeks to build friendship and understanding between countries. I’ll be meeting with ordinary and prominent Afghans and reporting on what they think of their country’s [...]
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March 28, 2011
Prince Andrew’s daughter ‘was given necklace by Libyan businessman’ Allegation of birthday gift for Beatrice piles further pressure on Prince Andrew over his work as special trade representative Share62 Stephen Bates guardian.co.uk, Sunday 27 March 2011 16.43 BST Article history Prince Andrew admitted he had been unwise after revelations earlier this month about his friendship [...]
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March 28, 2011
The closer you get to Israel the worse life becomes if you are indigenous. If not it does not matter where you are. To the Zionists life goes on regardless. my own headline of course, George Ikners ikners.com Syrian clashes leave at least 12 dead as government delays concessions • At least 12 people killed [...]
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March 25, 2011
There is no prize for having predicted the serious problems facing NATO in any decision to take over the war against Libya and the resettling of the old system of Libyan patronage of the imperial project to suit the wants and needs of international capital. There is not really a take over just a continuation with another [...]
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March 24, 2011
Living in a country so dedicated to killing is never a pleasant experience. If you watch enough US moves they seem to be forever burying their own dead under the stars and stripes. All very ceremonial but spectacularly useless. The sad part is that most of the population feels that it is not just the right thing to do but [...]
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Been waiting a long time for this. But not surprised. Are you? Think first a Monbiot point of view
The damaged units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Photograph: AIR PHOTO SERVICE / HO/EPA How did the thinking go? Well he does seems to have been anti-nuclear, with good reason BUT why the change in opinion and then this? The answer is quite simple, at least for me, but trust me that [...]
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