September 2007

By David Swanson

From the point of view of a corpse, Thursday’s die-in on the steps of the U.S. Capitol was overwhelming and diminishing. I was one of twenty some corpses lying dead in a river of blood in front of police and tourists and a color guard of Iraq veterans. I was one of a pile of corpses. You could have added or taken away a corpse or two, and nobody would have noticed. Thirty or forty other corpses were picked up inside the Capitol and taken to jail, and nobody noticed. read more

By David Swanson, www.BetrayUsReport.com

Are you here to communicate your own view, that of the White House, or both?

Please name all the people with whom you have had communications in preparing for this testimony.

What does the White House expect from your testimony?

Are you submitting a written report to this Congress? Did you ever plan to do so? What changed your mind?

Are you submitting a written report to the White House? Why not?

Are you aware that the President is required by law to submit read more

By David Swanson, http://www.BetrayUsReport.com

“Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning…”

If you read the rest of The Trial by Franz Kafka you’ll find that K. is not just arrested, but also executed, and that his execution comes as the perfectly natural conclusion to a series of infuriating steps, stages, and shiftings of goal posts.

In the end, General David Petraeus will appear in Congress read more

CHALLENGING THE WARFARE STATE

Nationally syndicated columnist Norman Solomon and national radio host Laura Flanders will speak in Charlottesville, Va.

Solomon’s latest books are “War Made Easy,” and “Made Love, Got War.” Flanders’ are “Blue Grit,” and “Bush Women.”

October 7 at 7 p.m.

Albemarle County Office Bldg., 401 McIntire Road, Charlottesville, VA

$5 donation requested / no one turned away

Sponsored by Charlottesville Center for Peace read more

By David Swanson

I spent a day meeting with Congress Members and their staffers, urging them to end the occupation of Iraq, and having them tell me they would never “defund our troops.” In the evening I watched Paul Haggis’s new film “In the Valley of Elah.” I walked out stunned, shaken, far more angry than I’d been, and convinced that we shouldn’t be asking Congress Members to end the occupation, we should be asking them to watch this movie. If any Congress read more