Ray McGovern and David Swanson Talk Torture on NPR
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$5 Friday: Veterans for Peace
For Five Dollar Friday I just gave $5 to Veterans for Peace. I hope you’ll do the same. This is the most principled and strategic party-independent peace group we’ve got. I hope you’ll also consider joining. I’m not and would never be a veteran, but I am a member of Vets for Peace. Check them out: http://veteransforpeace.org
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Looking Up: War Is Over (if you want it)
The tide is turning against war.
We’ve permanently shut down the Army Experience Center!
We’ve kept student information from recruiters in Maryland!
The war escalation supplemental funding has stalled!
The attack on Kandahar
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Contract from America Outpaced and Exposed
More candidates for Congress have signed a statement opposing war spending that have signed the tea party statement against all spending. And there is no overlap between the two lists of candidates. Clearly the opponents of government spending who receive the most media attention do not oppose the single biggest type of government spending. Why would that be? They have been exposed as severely limited in their fiscal responsibility, and their cheerleaders
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Obama Was Created By Our Failure to Impeach Bush
Remarks at the Rutherford Institute, June 16, 2010
Video of these remarks and the following Q&A posted at
http://afterdowningstreet.org/rutherford
I want to save most of the time we have for your questions, so I’ll be brief and I’ll start with a couple of questions for you. And then I want you to think of questions for me, because otherwise I’ll just go on and on about what I want to talk about.
Who can tell me who said this and where they said it?
“I — like
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Activists aim to revamp county government
By BENNETT HALL Gazette-Times
A group of local political activists, citing what they say is a widespread feeling of disenfranchisement with Benton County government, are holding a public meeting at the library this Friday to discuss ways to make it more responsive.
“We’re not prescribing anything,” said peace activist Leah Bolger, one of the meeting organizers. “We just want to have a civil discussion where people can throw out their ideas on how to improve county government.”
Bolger said
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This Wednesday: Vigil Against War Funding
This Wednesday in C’ville: One Event & Every Issue
War and Peace, Crime and Justice, Budget Priorities, Freedom of Assembly, Local and National Politics
You don’t want to miss this!
This Wednesday at noon in Charlottesville, and simultaneously in 100 congressional districts around the country, Americans will hold Brown Bag Lunch Vigils against further war funding, including the proposed $33.5 billion to fund
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That's the Average Male Brain?
By David Swanson
According to USA Today here is “A snapshot of the goings-on in the average male brain as it matures:”
Fetal stage. Brain development starts eight weeks after conception.
Boyhood. High testosterone from 1 to 12 months; lower testosterone from 1 to 11 years. Major interest in winning, movement, chasing objects, exploratory play.
Puberty. A 20-fold increase in testosterone. Major interest in turf, social interaction, girls’ bodies, male hierarchy.
Single male. Visual
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$5 Friday: Secular Student Alliance
I know it’s not Friday anymore, but I’m running late and don’t want to miss a $5 Friday. This week I’ve supported the Secular Student Alliance.
Had enough of Americans coming out of school believing humans lived with dinosaurs, environmentalism fails to properly value the afterlife, wars against people who believe the wrong nonsense are justified, and Bible-thumping morons make the best legislators?
Do something about it:
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Video: Prophecy: The Human Cost of War
And here’s a new review:
“Prophecy itself, despite the theatrical legacy, is as explosive as this week’s headlines—literally. This is because, besides Iraq, the play has the temerity to give voice to a pro-Palestinian stance—and we know what happens to people who take such positions: They’re reviled and drummed out of the press corps, as veteran reporter Helen Thomas was, after a crotchety answer to an on-the-spot question, which no one needed a Ph.D. to realize wasn’t
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We May Have Just Learned How Perriello Is Voting on the War Escalation Money
By David Swanson
Last June, Congressman Tom Perriello wanted to vote against war funding, because — much as he loves wars — he opposed the IMF bailout attached to it. So, the White House and the Democratic Party gave him a choice. He could vote No and be cut out of the family, “dead to us.” Or he could vote Yes and nice things would happen. Perriello voted yes, and the Party bought radio ads to promote him. Van Jones, then a White House employee, came down to Charlottesville
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At This Rate Bush Will be Impeached in 2069
After about a year, probably more, my congressman wrote me back today in response to a letter I’d forgotten sending him. Here’s what he wrote back:
______________blah______blah blah.
That’s the gist of it. Here’s the long version:
June 10, 2010
Dear Mr. Swanson,
Thank you for contacting me with regard to initiating an inquiry into the policies of the Bush-Cheney Administration and any possible criminal infractions. I appreciate hearing from you and value your input in developing
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Mass Murder in Charlottesville, Virginia
By David Swanson
During the past five years since I moved back to Charlottesville, Virginia, I had yet to observe the slightest violent incident, prior to the recent spree of horrific mass murders. There was crime, but I hadn’t ever seen it. I had only heard about it in the local media. First there was a young woman picked up hitch hiking and murdered. That was many months ago now. Then there was a man from Charlottesville attacked out of the blue up in the mountains, not actually in Charlottesville.
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PACPAC: People Against Corporate People Are Candidates
By David Swanson
David Segal is a candidate for Congress from Providence, R.I. who is not only running as a real person, but running against permitting corporations to claim the rights of persons. Recently the Providence Journal reported:
“Segal said he just introduced a resolution calling for a federal Constitutional Convention to address the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision,
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Vietghanistan
By David Swanson
In 2008 Joe Allen published “Vietnam: The (Last) War the U.S. Lost,” which provides a terrific and concise history of the United States’ involvement in Vietnam, from beginning to end. Doing this in 200 pages results in a limited history, but the basic points all seem right.
Allen concludes that Vietnam was ended by three forces: the resistance of the Vietnamese, the peace movement in the United States, and the resistance of soldiers in the U.S. military. Because
Nothing to Kill or Die For
By David Swanson
On Saturday, June 5, I took part in an event organized by Jeff Nall of Humanists for Peace, together with Nall, Armineh Noravian, and Debra Sweet. Nall had organized a panel at the national conference of the American Humanist Association to talk about the need to work for peace. And the room was packed.
The audio of all four of us speaking and then taking questions is here. Jeff opens it up with a fiery
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