David Swanson
David Swanson is the author of "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
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Fahrenheit 11-11-11Believe it or not, November 11th was not made a holiday in order to celebrate war, support troops, or cheer the 11th year of occupying Afghanistan.
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Imagine If War Were Illegal — it Is!A Forgotten Law We Need
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When the World Outlawed WarIn 1927 and 1928 a hot-tempered Republican from Minnesota named Frank, who privately cursed pacifists, managed to persuade nearly every country on earth to ban war.
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Louder Than WordsThe President will present more words in a speech today, as his wars rage on. Will you join us in preparing to insist on something louder than words?
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If Cairo Came to KabulBefore Tahrir Square happened almost nobody predicted that President Hosni Mubarak would be forced out of office by a movement that didn't pick up a gun.
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The Art of DemonizationOne of the oldest excuses for war is that the enemy is irredeemably evil.
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Why Pentagon Says MLK Would Love War TodayAccording to the Pentagon's lawyer , Martin Luther King Jr., if alive today, would view the US war on Afghanistan as both the act of a Good Samaritan and as necessary self-defense.
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The New War CongressTo understand just how bad the 112th Congress, elected on November 2nd and taking office on January 3rd, is likely to be for peace on Earth, one has to understand how incredibly awful the 110th and 111th Congresses have been.
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Clogging and FacilitatingIt's odd that we would all think our government was broken, call it a democracy, and go fight wars to supposedly impose democracy on other countries, a concept that makes crystal clear how perverse our understanding of democracy is.
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Wall Street's Mercenaries Ride DonkeysReagan announced the robbery but couldn't pull it off. Clinton robbed us blind. Bush Jr. and Obama drove the get-away car, with Obama disguised as a security guard.
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Withdraw the Last Combat Politicians from WashingtonPretending to end a war and occupation, while stationing 50,000 soldiers, 18,000 mercenaries, and 84,000 support contractors in massive and permanent military bases in Iraq.
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Wars and Congress: Now What?On Tuesday evening, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill already passed by the Senate that funds a $33 billion, 30,000-troop escalation in Afghanistan. The vote was 308 to 114. What could the good news possibly be?
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Blood on Our HandsThe most massive and brutal crime committed on this planet during the past decade has been the invasion and occupation of Iraq. And we're seeking to wash the blood off our hands without so much as an "Out, damn spot!"
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When Teachers Unions Back War EscalationsOn July 12th I received an e-mail from the American Federation of Teachers with a soft pink headline and an image of a heart. It said: "Pink Hearts. Not Pink Slips." That sounded nice. The text continued:
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The Peace Movement's ProgressThe peace movement has made significant progress in the United States since its low point of late 2008.
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We Need ACORNMuch of this country believes that ACORN, the now defunct Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, supported prostitution, engaged in voter fraud, and caused the subprime lending crisis.
