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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01 April 2005
"April Fools!  We're not really going to wreck the bankruptcy system and turn families over to the gentle mercies of credit card companies!  We just wanted to...
13 January 2005
Here's an interesting theory for why Bush attacked Iraq.  He did so in order to violate international law.  This is what Eric Zuesse argues in "Iraq War, the...
08 January 2005
Thirty-three Members of the US House of Representatives, and one all-important Senator -- one more than four years ago -- voted not to accept Ohio's 20...
28 July 2004
If Kerry is a "flip-flopper" because he won't end the war (or the "Patriot Act" or NAFTA or private health insurance) even as he speaks against these horrors...
29 June 2004
Fahrenheit 9-11 reminds me of Howard Dean. Both were wildly promoted by the media in a manner not carefully thought through by media bigwigs, and then both...
18 May 2004
There is a growing consensus in the United States that mainstream commercial media are by and large not mainstream at all but instead are supportive of the...

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