Join David Swanson at FDL Book Salon on Sunday
FDL Book Salon: War Is A Lie
Author: David Swanson
Sunday, November 28, 2010 2:00 pm Pacific time
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"War Is A Lie" Already in Top 50 Books
War Is A Lie, just published by David Swanson, exposes virtually all lies about all wars in history. The book was published today and is already in the top 50 books on Amazon.com.
(Amazon has been overrun with orders and currently says it is not shipping the book for weeks. But this is false; the book will be shipped right away, and we are working on getting this corrected on Amazon's website.)
"Not a single thing that we commonly believe
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The New War Congress: An Obama-Republican War Alliance?
Swanson has just published War Is A Lie. This article originally appeared on TomDispatch.
To understand just how bad the 112th Congress, elected on November 2nd and taking office on January 3rd, is likely to be for peace on Earth, one has to understand how incredibly awful the 110th and 111th Congresses have been during the past four years and then measure the ways in which things are likely to become even worse.
Oddly enough, doing so brings some surprising silver
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Make "War Is A Lie" #1 on Amazon
War Is A Lie, just published by David Swanson, exposes virtually all lies about all wars in history.
"Not a single thing that we commonly believe about wars that helps keep them around is true. Wars cannot be good or glorious. Nor can they be justified as a means of achieving peace or anything else of value. The reasons given for wars, before, during, and after them (often three very different sets of reasons for the same war) are all false."
Let's make War Is A Lie #1 on Amazon.
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Kim Carlyle's Wonderful Review of "War Is A Lie"
War Is A Lie: A good read and a ready reference
By Kim Carlyle, War Crimes Times
Available November 22 You don't believe in war, but can you articulate your reasons? What if someone challenges your position? Can you defend it? Suppose someone told you that spending for the military is good for the economy? What if they agreed that war is generally bad – but there are exceptions, such as the “good war” against Hitler and Japan, or even the “war on terror”? How about the notion that war makes us more secure? David Swanson's new book, War Is A Lie, provides answers to these questions and more. In 336 pages, he debunks every argument you've heard used to justify, glorify, instigate, promote, prolong, and expand war. In order to get the book out as quickly as possible and with the latest information (some events described and sources cited are from just last month), Swanson chose to self-publish it. This provides another advantage: without a need for a publisher's profit, he will send copies to activists “really cheap.” If you will set up a table outside a recruitment office, or if your group wants to sell copies to raise funds, go to the War Is A Lie website. You may be able to find much of the information in War Is A Lie elsewhere but this is like the convenience of “one-stop shopping.” It's all here. Would you like to see Swanson's War Is A Lie outperfrom Bush's Decision Points? If you buy from Amazon, use VFP's Amazon link and Veterans For Peace will get a percentage.
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Rob Kall's Amazing Review of War Is A Lie
“Activist David Swanson is well respected in the anti-war community as a man who walks his talk in a bold, committed, solid way, that he is a principled leader. Now we must add to that list of credentials authorship of an important, destined to be classic book. ‘War Is A Lie‘ addresses the web of lies, the taboo subjects, the false claims, the mythic messages that are hollow and empty and it lays waste to them. Swanson’s book is a (I’ve
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Charlottesville–Right Now: Best-selling author David Swanson joins Coy Barefoot
11.15.10 Best-selling non-fiction author David Swanson talks with Coy about his upcoming book War is a Lie. The coversation covers a range of topics including the history of war in America, the alleged lies of the Bush Presidency, and what President Obama needs to do to handle today’s ongoing wars. Swanson’s book will be available Monday, November 22nd.
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Bush LIE-Bury Lacks Shovels
By David Swanson
Remarks via skype to Dallas, November 15, 2010.
Thanks to Leslie and everyone else for letting me help with the http://thepeoplesresponse.org website and for letting me speak by Skype. Not that I don’t enjoy being strip-searched and treated as a terrorist for the good of my crumbling empire as much as the next guy, but it’s much more efficient to stay home and use the tool through which
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"War Is A Lie" To Be Published November 22nd
For Immediate Release November 15, 2010
Contact: david@davidswanson.org
David Swanson, author of "Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union," which rose to #1 among nonfiction books on Amazon.com the day it was published, will publish a new book called "War Is A Lie" on Monday, November 22nd and encourage readers to purchase it that day on Amazon.
More information as well as a variety of audio and eBooks, and bulk purchasing are available
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Tall Tillman Tales
By David Swanson
Wednesday night I led a discussion following a screening of “The Tillman Story” at the Naro Cinema in our nation’s most heavily militarized town, Norfolk, Va., where almost half the economy is military. What an incredible tragedy that film relates!
Pat Tillman was so good, so decent, so brave, and of such misguided integrity that what happened to him is excruciatingly painful to watch. For all the politicians’ talk about the troops, the troops, the troops,
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Hampton Roads Newspaper Takes on Military Industrial Complex
David Swanson: War is a Lie
Words Jay Ford Wednesday, November 10th, 2010 at 11:34 am“War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
Hampton Roads is military land.
Half of the Hampton Roads economy is defense related. Given the fact that the armed services permeate this region to its very core, you would think that discussions on the propriety of our military’s actions would be plentiful.
However, we see just the opposite here. Stickers that read “Give war a chance” or “I love jet noise” thrive in Hampton Roads, which comes as no surprise as the military built this region. Something about biting
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To Armistice Days, Past and Future
At 11 a.m. on the 11th day of the 11th month, make a toast to Armistice Day, the official end of World War I, a war the United States fought in for less time than President Obama and the 111th Congress have kept the fighting going in Afghanistan and Iraq. Armistice Day is a better name for the day than Veterans Day because it honors both veterans and peace, our primary duty being to cease producing more veterans, a policy that would make us better able to provide a decent life for veterans and
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David Swanson to Speak and Lead Discussion at Screening of The Tillman Story
Bestselling author David Swanson's new book is not yet published, but he will have 20 copies to sign and sell at this first event of a new book tour. Swanson will speak at this Wednesday's screening of The Tillman Story at the Naro Cinema in Norfolk, Va. (7:30 p.m., Nov. 10, 2010).
WAR IS A LIE addresses the story of Pat Tillman and every other kind of war lie. The book is a thorough refutation of every major argument used to justify wars, drawing on evidence
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A New Tool for Peace and Justice Activists
You made my last book, Daybreak, a big success, including by making it #1 in nonfiction books on Amazon.com the day it appeared there. I hope you'll help do the same with this new book War Is A Lie when Amazon.com posts it. I'm tentatively hoping to make November 22nd the big day to bump Glenn Beck and George W. Bush off the charts, but I'll let you know and hope you can help by emailing your
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One Place to Cut Spending: Kidnapping and Torture
By David Swanson
I know it seems like more of a noble sacrifice to cut spending on things people less fortunate than ourselves need, but can somebody explain to me why it wouldn’t be at least that noble to eliminate the budget of the CIA, which serves no one?
The Washington Post and the Obama administration have been busy telling us that it’s legal to kidnap people and send them to countries
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