| Lunch Audio Archive – Interviews | |
| Written by Adam Roufberg | |
| Thursday, 04 November 2010 | |
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I spoke with citizen advocate and activist David Swanson about the results of the 2010 midterm elections, the general shift to the 'Right' in US Politics and his new book coming out at the end of the month"War is a Lie ". Listen to Interview with David Swanson >> |
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Audio: Election Reflection on RadioActive Lunch Read More »
Link to original Charlottesville–Right Now: David Swanson and Rick Sincere
Liberal Activist David Swanson and Conservative Libertarian Rick Sincere joined Coy Barefoot to discuss yesterday’s mid-term elections.
Audio: Leftist and Libertarian Debate What Happened Tuesday Read More »
A 2 HOUR ELECTION DAY SPECIAL!
REAL PROGRESSIVES SPEAK OUT!
– Featuring Gary Null and Danny Schector
Guest
Audio: Take Back Our Democracy Read More »
You may have heard that our center-right nation got enthusiastic, formed a grassroots movement called a tea party, and overwhelmingly voted in a more rightwing party, sending hordes of nasty socialists packing as a result of their overly progressive performance, meaning gridlock between the righteous Congress and the infidel president for the next two years. There are some problems with this story, beginning with the fact that it’s completely false.
Let’s get a little perspective. The
By David Swanson, Special to http://globalresearch.ca
Free Speech TV will be covering the elections Tuesday evening from Busboys and Poets restaurant in Washington, D.C. I’ll be on the same channel earlier in the day via Al Jazeera, but the evening extravaganza at Busboys promises to be a lively affair with commentary from a variety of panels, as well as people who’ve just shown up to dine and to try their best to digest what’s becoming of our democracy.
Norman Solomon and I will
Elections in the South Read More »
By David Swanson
The Washington Post’s David Broder thinks more war will bring us more jobs. Unlike in Germany, where the president was forced out of office earlier this year for suggesting that war in Afghanistan could benefit the German economy, Americans don’t seem to have serious moral qualms about slaughtering human beings for no good reason. We’ve got three significant wars
It's Jobs or Wars, Not Both Read More »
By David Swanson
On Friday evening, Charlottesville, Virginia’s liberals were lined up the length of the pedestrian street known as the Downtown Mall waiting to get into an event with President Obama and Congressman Tom Perriello. Meanwhile the rightwingers (or some of them, because the Tea Party had an event elsewhere) were at an Americans for Prosperity event in a nearby park. And we misfits were handing the same flyers to both groups and observing the different reactions.
We were unable
A Tale of Two Tribes Read More »
A Nonviolent Exchange of Views in Four Parts
1. Don’t You Know That You Can Count Me Out – In
By David Swanson
Ted Rall’s new book “The Anti-American Manifesto” advocates for violent revolution, even if we have to join with rightwingers and racists to do it, and even if we have no control over the outcome which could easily be something worse than what we’ve got. We have a moral duty, Rall argues, to kill some people.
Now, I much prefer a debate over what radical
A Debate on Violence: Ted Rall and David Swanson Read More »
