David Swanson on Healthcare
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Cleveland Comments
Here’s a report on my book event in Cleveland and the lively discussion that followed, from Eric McKee.
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Tonight's Urban Journal: Swanson, Kessler, Del Vecchio
The Urban Journal airs tonight at 8pm EST – 5pm PST on XM Ch 169, but it can be heard right now at http://www.theurbanjournal.org
Segments 1&2 David Swanson, author (Daybreak) and activist
Segment 3 Ron Kessler, author & journalist
Segment 4 Frank Del Vecchio, Amber Ready
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A Compelling Prescription for Change
By Stephen Lendman
David Swanson is co-founder of AfterDowningStreet.org and Washington Director of Democrats.com. He’s also a board member of Progressive Democrats of America, the Backbone Campaign, and Voters for Peace as well as a member of the legislative working group of United for Peace and Justice.
Subtitled “Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming A More Perfect Union,” Daybreak is Swanson’s first book, a timely and impressive account of presidential extremism,
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How Dick Cheney's Radical Acts in the White House Still Threaten Our Democracy
Please read this excerpt of my new book published at Alternet.
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Who Has the Power of War?
By David Swanson, Voters for Peace
David Swanson is the author of the new book “Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union” by Seven Stories Press, an immediate bestseller at Amazon.com http://tr.im/xBt3 This article is adapted from “Daybreak.”
Since 1973 presidents who have launched wars without the authorization of Congress have done so, not just in violation of the Constitution, but also in violation of the War Powers Act, a law written
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Oh Ohio
By David Swanson
Ohio may be trailing Michigan and a few other states in official unemployment statistics, but in all of these states the truth is worse than we’re told, and it’s visible. Unemployment rates do not include those who’ve given up looking for work, those with an insufficient part-time job, those who have figured out that they would pay more for childcare than they would earn working, those in prison, or those working for less than a living wage.
On a book tour in