Army Experience Center’s Bad Experience: Turns out Training Kids to Kill Not Popular with Public
By David Swanson
Published in the November/December 2009 Humanist
“This is so cool! This is so cool!” a thirteen-year-old boy repeated as he squeezed rounds from a real M-16, picking off “enemy combatants” in a video game while perched atop a real Army Humvee. “I just came to the mall to skateboard but everyone said this was pretty cool. I just had to try it and it’s great!”
The person reporting on this youthful enthusiasm was Pat Elder, who serves on
Block Bad Healthcare Bills
By David Swanson, BlackCommentator
So, the Democratic Party has achieved two of its primary goals for healthcare reform (I mean in addition to renaming this charade health INSURANCE reform). First, they’ve managed to get one Republican to vote for one of their bills. To their way of thinking, it’s harder to blame Democrats for a lousy law if it’s been supported by one Republican (Senator Olympia Snow this week in the
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Imperial Presidency 2.0
October 7th marked the eighth anniversary of the Bush administration’s invasion of Afghanistan and so of the… well, can we really call it a war?… that won’t end, that American commanders there now predict could last for another decade or more. And yet, here’s the weird thing: because Congress no longer actually declares war, we officially must be fighting something else entirely. Put another way, we are now heading for the longest undeclared war in U.S.
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David Swanson and John Ford on Radio Tonight
From 8-9 pm PT tonight listen to David Swanson with John Ford on KAOS in Olympia, WA, or online at http://kaos.evergreen.edu
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What Young People Can Do: David Swanson at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg (4 videos)
On October 13, 2009, David Swanson discussed his new book "Daybreak" and US politics and took questions from students at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, FL. Video shot by Leonard Schmiege, candidate for St. Petersburg City Council.
More below!
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Audio: The Urban Journal: William Cohen, David Cho, David Swanson, Kevin Muhammad
Today at: http://www.theurbanjournal.org
Seg. 1 Former Defense Secretary William Cohen
Seg. 2 David Cho, Washington Post
Seg. 3 David Swanson, author/activist author of “Daybreak”
Seg. 4 Kevin Muhammad (encore)
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States / Cities Fund Military, Ruin Environment
Going on a book tour of the United States to events organized by peace groups will expose you to a national story that nobody is talking about nationally. Every town I go to complains that their city or state is funding a local weapons factory, that the workers in the factory are dying, and that the factory is destroying the water supply and the environment. Every city. Same story. Does anyone know this? Since when do cities and states fund the U.S. military?
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