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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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Let’s Not Let 2026 Elections Turn Out Like 2006 Elections

In 2006, exit polls found ending the war on Iraq (and would have found impeaching Bush if they’d asked) to be the top demand of voters who handed the Congress over to Democrats. The Democrats took control in January 2007 and escalated the war on Iraq and refused to impeach Bush. According to then…
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The 10 Worst Congressional Excuses for Voting for More Military Spending

Every year for many years now, the bitterly divided, grid-locked, virtually civil-war-waging United States Congress (as it’s commonly depicted) has harmoniously voted for vastly more money in war spending than it had done the year before. Our lords and misrepresentatives are threatening the same…
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Deeming Nationalism Infantile Isn’t “Hating America”

Wow, U.S. social media is suffering a pandemic of nationalism just in time for a celebration of a declaration of the crimes and abuses of King George, a laundry list of horrors that pale beside the accomplishments of any recent U.S. president — the quaint abuses of his royal highness of the blue…
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$3 Trillion a Year for U.S. Military Spending

Recently the least popular person alive said, “I didn’t guarantee no war. Why would I have built the strongest military in the world?”Already unpopular with kind and decent people, Trump may have — with that comment — tanked his popularity with every weapons company public relations hack on Earth.…