Nicole Sandler Show on Peace Movement
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Hosni Mubarak Will You Please Go Now
Hosni Mubarak will you please go now!
The time has come.
The time has come.
The time is now.
Just go.
Go.
Go!
I don’t care how.
You can go by foot.
You can go by cow.
Hosni Mubarak will you please go now!
You can go on skates.
You can go on skis.
You can go in a hat.
But
Please go.
Please!
I don’t care.
You can go
By bike.
You can go
On a Zike-Bike
If
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I'm Going to Florida
David Swanson and Nicolas “Sandy” Davies in South Florida on Feb. 26, 2011
David Swanson will discuss and sign copies of “War Is A Lie”.
Sandy Davies will discuss and sign copies of “Blood on Our Hands”.
3-5 p.m. Saturday, February 26, 2011
Saint Andrews Estates South Auditorium
6045 Verde Trail South
Boca Raton, FL 33433
PLEASE RSVP to nparker0511 at gmail dot com
561-702-4174
Sponsored by Progressive Democrats of America
“While most
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Rumsfeld to Receive Award for "Defending the Constitution"
February 10, 2011, 4:00pm
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
Washington, DC
That’s where you should be to help present Donald Rumsfeld with a very serious award for his noble defense of the mythical document the Tea Party refers to mysteriously as “The Constitution,” not to be confused with any document available in print.
This PDF schedule of CPAC’s upcoming festivities
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Decades in the Making: The U.S. Police State
Andrew Kolin’s new book “State Power and Democracy: Before and During the Presidency of George W. Bush” actually begins with the war for independence and continues into the Obama years. A 231-page monotone recounting of endless facts, it doesn’t pick up with Bush the Lesser until page 137. Kolin chronicles a gradual slide into an imperial presidency that really got going after World War II. Along the way he chronicles the damage done to the forces of resistance, making
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The Art of Demonization
One of the oldest excuses for war is that the enemy is irredeemably evil. He worships the wrong god, has the wrong skin and language, commits atrocities, and cannot be reasoned with. The long-standing tradition of making war on foreigners and converting those not killed to the proper religion “for their own good” is similar to the current practice of killing hated foreigners for the stated reason that their governments ignore women’s rights. From among the rights of women encompassed
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60 Minutes: Putting the BS in CBS
The reason people in Tunisia, Egypt, and other parts of the world have been influenced to some extent by the work of Wikileaks is that they have read or heard about the material that Wikileaks has helped to make public. The CBS program “60 Minutes” has just published video of an interview with Wikileaks’ Julian Assange — with the video focused, of course, on Assange himself, with almost no substantive content related to the massive crimes and abuses that have made news
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Audio: David Swanson on Egypt with Coy Barefoot
Charlottesville–Right Now: David Swanson joins Coy Barefoot
1.28.11 Best-selling non-fiction author David Swanson joins Coy to discuss the revolution taking place in Egypt. Cairo is literally burning, and today’s conversation discusses the political state which lead to this uprising and exactly what is going on. Swanson describes the protests as “inspiring,” but also is not convinced of the need for these heavy doses of violence.
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Audio: Phonecall With Protester in Egypt Just Recorded
I just phoned Tighe Barry, a great US activist with Code Pink, who has been in Cairo, Egypt, all week. Here is the audio. Tighe describes a different situation from what we get through the US media.
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EPA vs. military: Rep. Hurt should look closely at costs
By David Swanson | Charlottesville
Published: January 26, 2011, DailyProgress
Congressman Robert Hurt is outraged because the cost of the Environmental Protection Agency “has gone wild” (“New job, fresh focus,” The Daily Progress, Jan. 22).
We spend $10 billion per year protecting an environment in serious danger of collapse. In contrast, we spend $700 billion per year on a military that could be cut by 85 percent and still be the largest in the world.
I’m confused: Is the congressman representing
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Code Pink Wins the Future
By David Swanson
The future will be here in April and Code Pink: Women for Peace has already won it (thus answering President Obama’s State of the Union call to “win the future”). The color coded threat warnings our government has been bombarding us with since shortly after September 11, 2001, will be gone. The fear-mongering tactic that Code Pink was named in mockery of will have been mocked right out of existence.
To listen to the corporate media, Code Pink cannot be taken
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150 Leading Activists Oppose Obama for Democratic Nomination
Over 150 prominent activists, authors, and academics have launched a petition with a statement that begins:
“We the undersigned share with nearly two-thirds of our fellow Americans the conviction that our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq should be ended and that overall military spending should be dramatically reduced. This has been our position for years and will continue to be, and we take it seriously. We vow not to support President Barack Obama for
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He Didn't Leave Government Service, It Left Him
Whistleblowing takes many forms but almost always involves the disillusionment of an insider with the nature of what he or she is inside. Leaking secret documents exposing dramatic crimes and abuses is one way to blow a whistle. Another, equally valuable approach, is to publish a lengthy analysis of your experiences in government service. This is what Chas Freeman has done with his new book “America’s Misadventures in the Middle East,” which he will discuss
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Punishing Bradley Manning for the Crimes of Others
Bradley Manning, alleged U.S. Army whistleblower, is in two ways — one likely, the other certain — being punished for the crimes of others.
On Monday a crowd that I was part of staged a protest at Quantico, where Manning has been imprisoned for several months with no trial. At the last minute, the military denied us permission to hold a rally on the base, so we held it in the street blocking the entrance to the base. This visibly
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Wars Are Not Fought on Battlefields
Wednesday 19 January 2011
by: David Swanson, t r u t h o u t | Book Excerpt
We talk of sending soldiers off to fight on battlefields. The word ‘battlefield’ appears in millions, possibly billions, of news stories about our wars. And the term conveys to many of us a location in which soldiers fight other soldiers. We don’t think of certain things being found in a battlefield. We don’t imagine whole families, or picnics, or wedding parties, for example, as being found on a
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People Who Have Pull
On Monday, two U.S. marines grabbed me and began pulling me away from a crowd of protesters. For a split second I was certain I would be locked up and charged with some made-up offense, such as failure to obey an unlawful order, or disrupting the war. But that was only for a split second, because without any hesitation the people I was with grabbed me and pulled me back.
These were people who have pull.
Here’s a video. http://warisacrime.org/node/56282
This happened at Quantico, Virginia,
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Florida Next Stop for "War Is A Lie" Book Tour
UPDATE: Ben Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor from the World War II Nuremberg War Crimes Trials and founding father of the International Criminal Court, will make an important statement on U.S. foreign policy at an event with David Swanson and Sandy Davies in Boca Raton on Feb. 26, 2011.
David Swanson and Nicolas “Sandy” Davies in South Florida on Feb. 26, 2011
David Swanson will discuss and sign copies of “War Is A Lie”.
Sandy Davies will
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