Why NON-Violence Is the Way: 3-Minute Video
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Free Bradley Manning on Monday!
There are conflicting accounts of exactly how Bradley Manning, the alleged whistleblower on countless U.S. government crimes, has been illegally punished for 8 months so far, pre-trial. There’s no denying that this young man who allegedly sought to make his government’s actions known for the public good and did not seek to profit thereby has been denied a speedy trial. The question is to what extent he has already been punished, and even cruelly and unusually punished, without having
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Why Pentagon Says MLK Would Love War Today
According 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.
Jeh C. Johnson, the “Defense” Department’s general counsel, said, on the one hand:
“I believe that if Dr. King were alive today, he would recognize that we live in a complicated world, and that our nation’s military should not and cannot lay down its arms and leave the American people
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Video: Book Event With Music, Awards, Other Odd Surprises
This was a great event in Baltimore on Monday!
Book Talk with David Swanson (01/10/11) from William Hughes on Vimeo.
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What Eisenhower Got Wrong
By David Swanson
Fifty years ago this Monday, President Dwight Eisenhower gave a farewell address in which he famously warned of the dangers of influence on our government by the “military industrial complex.” Our current Secretary of War, Robert Gates, has proposed to retire this year and has recommended that his successors stop increasing the military budget. But Eisenhower didn’t just bring this up on his way out the door. It was seven years earlier that he had remarked:
“Every
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"War Is A Lie" Book Tour Headed to Wilmington, DE
Sunday, March 20th
2-4 p.m.
Westminster Presbyterian Church
http://www.wpc.org
Pennsylvania Ave. & North Rodney Street
Wilmington, DE
Sponsored by Pacem in Terris
David Swanson & Dahlia Wasfi & Dave Lindorff
Dave Lindorff is a veteran investigative reporter, author of “The Case for Impeachment,” founding editor of the online newspaper ThisCantBeHappening! and is a regular columnist at Counterpunch and Truthout. He will speak on “Afghanistan:
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See You in Baltimore on Monday!
Here’s a poster/flyer: PDF
David Swanson to Discuss, Sign Copies of “War Is A Lie” in Baltimore, Md.
January 10, 2011
7:00 p.m.
Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins Bookstore
3330 St. Paul Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
(410) 662-5850
CONTACT info at chesapeakecitizens.org
Special guests:
Andy Worthington, author of “Guantanamo Files”
Debra Sweet, director of The World Can’t Wait
Cindy Sheehan, the Peace Mom
and other surprises!
Cosponsors:
Pledge of Resistance Baltimore
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An Interview with David Swanson, author of “War is A Lie.”
David Swanson is co-founder of WarIsACrime.org, and was instrumental in exposing the Downing Street Minutes. He is also the author of “Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union.”
David will be discussing and signing the book, and will be joined by Andy Worthington, author of “The Guantanamo Files,” Debra Sweet, and Cindy Sheehan, at the JHU Barnes and Noble Bookstore, 3300 St. Paul Street in Baltimore, at 7:00 p.m. on Monday,
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