April 2011

"War Is A Lie" British Version Published in London Just as UK Troops Sent to Libya

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http://www.bitebackpublishing.com

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN HONEST WAR

ISBN: 9781849540926
368pp paperback
£12.99
PUBLISHED: 19 May 2011

Every war ever fought has been sold to both sides as a fight between the forces of good and evil. Politicians are willing to tell any lie to ensure the public believe they were in the right and the enemy undeniably in the wrong.

In War is a Lie, anti-war activist David Swanson deconstructs virtually every argument ever put forward in favour of war. Drawing read more

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The Cure for Plutocracy: Strike!

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How do you get politicians living off legalized bribery to criminalize bribery? How do you persuade the corporate media to report on the interests of flesh-and-blood, non-corporate people? How do you take over a political party when the only other one allowed to compete is worse? These are not koans, but actual problems with a single solution.

It might seem like there are a million solutions: pass state-level clean election laws, build independent media, build a new party, etc. But the fundamental read more

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TV, Newspapers, Congress Apologize for Claiming War Not About Oil

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In the wake of the latest revelations of what everyone always knew, the largest press conference in the history of the United States has been planned for tomorrow in the Nationals Park baseball stadium in Washington, D.C. The powerful people lining up to apologize for having claimed the ongoing War on Iraq has had nothing to do with oil were deemed too numerous to gather in any indoor facility.

Former Congressman David Obey, who screamed at Congressman Dennis Kucinich in a Democratic caucus meeting read more

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BP Is Messing With the Wrong Woman

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A year ago BP began filling the Gulf of Mexico with oil.

Last week BP blocked a woman from entering its annual meeting.

Which will prove the bigger mistake?

BP may have chosen the right country to hit with the worst oil disaster in world history. If there’s any population that will take seeing its land and water destroyed for corporate profit lying down, it’s got to be us. We’re split between gratitude and indifference: should we thank BP or just stay out of its way?

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It Would Be an Honor

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Review of “Honor For Us: A Philosophical Analysis, Interpretation, and Defense” By William Lad Sessions, Continuum.

William Lad Sessions is a philosophy professor at Washington and Lee University in Virginia. I was once a philosophy student at the University of Virginia. Both schools have honor codes for their students. I experienced UVA’s honor code as one of the most thrilling discoveries of my life. W&L’s has inspired Sessions to write a book.

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If Cairo Came to Kabul

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Before 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. Had President Barack Obama expected that outcome, he might have publicly backed Mubarak’s departure before, rather than after, Mubarak stepped down.

Obama can be seen as overcompensating for that performance in Libya, but there he is placing faith in weapons. Anybody can do that. Egypt still has a long way to go on its path to read more

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Did You Just Call Me a Socialist?

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On Friday on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, congress members spoke in defense of Medicare, Social Security, the Environmental Protection Agency, and other programs that by almost anyone’s definition are socialist, programs that were denounced as socialist by opponents of their passage in decades past, programs that would not have been created without the efforts of socialists and the Socialist Party.

The debate screeched to a halt, however, because an opponent of the Congressional read more

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Connect the Dots on Monday: Swanson, Greenwald, Nichols

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Airs Mondays from 7AM to 8AM.
To pod cast or download the broadcast just use this link:
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Each show is online for three months.

War in Afghanistan alone is costing us over 2 billion a week. Author David Swanson challenges Oblama to stop our 3 wars if he really wants to solve the deficit. He questions the necessity of the Civil War, read more

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I'm Headed to Los Angeles

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Upcoming public events:

Saturday, April 30, 2011
3:15 – 5:15 pm Book signing at Los Angeles Times Festival of Books ( http://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks ), at the Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace ( http://www.icujp.org ) booth, Booth 921.
University of Southern California

7:30 – 9:30 pm “The Costs of War” with David Swanson, Chris Hedges, Paul Chappell, and Lewis Logan, moderated by Ameena Mirza Qazi.
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