Author name: davidswanson

By David Swanson

Six years ago Congressman Virgil Goode helped to frighten and defraud the nation into a disastrous war in Iraq that has gotten worse each year since then, with no light at the end of the tunnel. Now Goode is helping to push similar scary stories about Iran in an effort that appears aimed at dragging us into another war, and nobody has asked him about it.

Goode is a cosponsor of a resolution in Congress called H Con Res 362, the lengthy title of which expresses fear of “Iran’s read more

By David Swanson

Alternet is exactly right about the damaging effect of the New Yorker cover depicting Obama as Osama, and does not excuse it because the New Yorker shouts “Satire!”

And at the same time, Alternet approves of John Cusack’s “War, Inc.”, presumably because it’s “satire” and because glorifying violence is so much a part of the air we breathe that Alternet doesn’t read more

By David Swanson

Senator Obama published a sketch of a plan for Iraq in the New York Times today, and it’s about the same as his plan has always been, clearly superior to Bush or McCain and yet horribly muddled, vague, and militaristic, until he gets to the highly encouraging last few lines. Obama begins by fudging Maliki’s call to withdraw troops into his own longstanding call to withdraw “combat read more