By David Swanson

Two years ago, the Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, David Obey, screamed at a friend of mine, Tina Richards, denouncing “idiot liberals” who are foolish enough to suggest that opposing a war should involve ceasing to fund it.

In October of this year, Obey began speaking as if he’d joined the idiot liberals. No longer was he going to end wars by funding them, as he’d proposed in 2007 (and as he’d followed through on with a staggering read more

By David Swanson

During a televised football game on Sunday, an announcer welcomed the members of the U.S. military viewing the game in 177 nations around the world. When the news came on, the topic was the same one it’s been for weeks, speculation as to whether and how much a single individual will escalate war by sending tens of thousands of additional troops to nation number 177, Afghanistan.

Somehow it remains eternally controversial to mention the imperial presidency. Yet the positions read more