David Swanson
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Amnesty Intl. Tries to Explains Why It Won’t Oppose All Drone Murders By David Swanson
Shah [of Amnesty Intl] explained that AI cannot oppose all drone strikes in an illegal war, because Amnesty International has never opposed a war, because doing so would make it look biased, and A.I. wants to appear to be an unbiased enforcer of the law. But, of course, an illegal war is a violation of… Continue reading
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Got His Gun — Lost His Legs, Arms, Penis By David Swanson
Ann Jones’ new book, They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return from America’s Wars — The Untold Story, is devastating, and almost incomprehensibly so when one considers that virtually all of the death and destruction in U.S. wars is on the other side. Statistically, what happens to U.S. troops is almost nothing. In human terms,… Continue reading
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New Kind of War Is Being Legalized By David Swanson
There’s a dark side to the flurry of reports and testimony on drones, helpful as they are in many ways. When we read that Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch oppose drone strikes that violate international law, some of us may be inclined to interpret that as a declaration that, in fact, drone strikes violate… Continue reading
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Syria: HUMANITARIAN MURDER: Killing in the Name of Peace By David Swanson
This past Sunday night on “60 Minutes” John Miller of CBS News said, “I’ve spoken with intelligence analysts who have said an uncomfortable thing that has a ring of truth, which is: the longer this war in Syria goes on, in some sense the better off we are.” Continue reading
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Lying About Syria, and the Lying Liars Who Lie About the Lying By David Swanson
“U.S. prepares for possible retaliatory strike against Syria,” announces a Los Angeles Times headline, even though Syria has not attacked the United States or any of its occupied territories or imperial forces and has no intention to do so. Continue reading
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Screaming in Bradley Manning’s Trial By David Swanson
I don’t blame Bradley Manning for apologizing for his actions and effectively begging for the court’s mercy. He’s on trial in a system rigged against him. The commander in chief declared him guilty long ago. He’s been convicted. The judge has been offered a promotion. The prosecution has been given a playing field slanted steeply… Continue reading
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The Missiles That Brought Down TWA Flight 800 By David Swanson
If you watch Kristina Borjesson’s new film, TWA Flight 800, you’ll see a highly persuasive case that this passenger jet full of passengers was brought down by missiles, killing all on board. Continue reading
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Top U.S. Terrorist Group: the FBI By David Swanson
A careful study of the FBI’s own data on terrorism in the United States, reported in Trevor Aaronson’s book The Terror Factory,finds one organization leading all others in creating terrorist plots in the United States: the FBI.Imagine an incompetent bureaucrat. Now imagine a corrupt one. Now imagine both combined. You’re starting to get at the… Continue reading
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Wars That Aren’t Meant to Be Won By David Swanson
I looked at pretended and real reasons for wars and found some of the real reasons to be quite irrational. It should not shock us then to discover that the primary goal in fighting a war is not always to win it. Continue reading
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ColdType, January 2012: Las Vegas / The Rich plus Herman, Cromwell, McGovern, Pilger et al…
10 January 2013 — Coldtype In the January issue of COLDTYPE MAGAZINE – download your free copy today Cover story this month is Tony Sutton’s Las Vegas: Behind The Bright Lights, a photo essay that captures street life away from the gaze of the city that never sleeps. Sharing our spotlight is a 16-page excerpt from Sam Continue reading
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Veterans For Peace Appeals to Israeli Soldiers to Lay Down Their Arms By David Swanson
Israel’s military has in recent days attacked the Gaza strip with drones and F-16s, and has apparently been preparing for a possible ground war. Israel is using weaponry provided by the United States at the expense to U.S. taxpayers of $3 billion per year. Veterans For Peace member Doug Rawlings adresses the following statement to… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report October 3, 2012 — Occupy the Debates, Int'l Criminal Court on Trial, How Mass Incarceration Changes Everthing
3 October, 2012 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Why This Black Man Is Watching the Debates, and Voting Green by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon I’ll be watching the debates. Not on CNN or ABC, but online at Occupy the Debates or at Democracy Now or Free Speech TV, Continue reading
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BA_Report 27 June 2012: Re-Open Cointelpro / ATL Plantation Politics / Race Talk Taboo
26 June 2012 — Black Agenda Report News, commentary and analysis from the black left Black On The Old Plantation A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Metro Atlanta is now the second largest concentration of African-descended people in North America. But with civil rights organizations firmly in corporate pockets, it’s still Continue reading
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Video: US: Turning war-fear into warfare
The US has a strong record of persuading the public that war is the only way. A military industrial complex worth billions of dollars is largely America’s driving force. Deeply rooted in the system, it would serve no purpose if there was no one to fight. Continue reading
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ColdType, March 2012
The cover story of this month’s biggest-ever issue returns to the Middle East where the world is being prepared for a replay of the just-ended war in Iraq. Our seven essays by writers in North America and Europe point out, among other things, that there seems to be a media blackout of the fact that… Continue reading
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ColdType, February 2012: John Pilger, Sherwood Ross, David Swanson, Chellis Glendinning, Glenn Ford
Cover story this month is an 8-page photo-essay, by London journalist Jack Laurenson, on the reasons why campaigners are battling to get Dow Chemicals out of this year’s Olympic Games. Continue reading
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Video: US Wars Far From Over
29 December, 2011 — The Real News Network David Swanson: Leadership of both parties committed to a militarist agenda Continue reading
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What If Britain Drops Out of All US Wars? By David Swanson
Before long public pressure might just lead Britain to drop out of participation in US wars, a move that would seriously damage future pretenses of acting as an international coalition. Continue reading
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The Media Is a Curable Disease By David Swanson
Meanwhile, back in the land where every goddam airport and hotel lobby blares Fox News at you, our free and independent press has the drawback of all agreeing with itself about almost everything. There’s no anti-Fox News. There’s very little investigative, independent, anti-authoritarian reporting of any sort. Newspapers are dying out, and with them the… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 