Debate Challenge: Bush Should Be Prosecuted for War Crimes

Leave a Comment /

As I head out on a book tour of the 40 plus cities listed down the right-hand side of https://davidswanson.org I issue the following challenge: I will publicly debate any worthy participant who is willing to argue the negative on the following resolution: “George W. Bush should be prosecuted for war crimes.”

This challenge is subject to scheduling restrictions and the preferences of local organizers already arranging for me to speak about my book. Radio debates by telephone are also read more

Debate Challenge: Bush Should Be Prosecuted for War Crimes Read More »

Healthcare Rally in Charlottesville VA

Leave a Comment /

We need you! Health Care Reform rally, Monday August 24th, Charlottesvlle, VA at the Downtown Mall, 12 pm to 2 pm.

Join us at the pavilion near City Hall with three demands:

-Vote Yes on the Weiner amendment for single-payer healthcare.
-Keep the Kucinich amendment for states’ right to single-payer in the bill.
-Include a strong immediate public option.

Who: YOU and hundreds of community organizers, grassroots activists, and local politicians will gather to demand REAL health care reform. . read more

Healthcare Rally in Charlottesville VA Read More »

Obama IS Leading, But in the Wrong Direction

Leave a Comment /

By David Swanson

“If you would lead, maybe we would follow,” David Michael Green writes to Obama in another witty and aggressive article (and ALMOST always I agree with and admire what Green writes). Green wishes Obama had drafted a healthcare plan rather than letting Congress do it and objects to Obama’s deference to Congress members funded by the health industry.

But you could pool the health industry bribes of any dozen congress members or senators you like and not come close read more

Obama IS Leading, But in the Wrong Direction Read More »

Ayatolla Kit Bond

Leave a Comment /

By David Swanson

You gotta keep ’em separated. My colleagues over at Velvet Revolution noticed a striking resemblance between certain Republican senators here at home and certain theocrats over yonder in Iran. You can’t necessarily spot it by looking at them. You have to pay attention to what they say.

The Iranians say that prosecuting torturers within the Iranian government would endanger Iran:

“Parliament speaker Ali Larijani called last Wednesday for an investigation but a read more

Ayatolla Kit Bond Read More »

Truckfuls of Bodies

Leave a Comment /

By David Swanson

Michael Vick, the football player who’s all over the news, should have tortured humans instead of dogs. Then we would have been told to overlook it for the sake of moving forward. Better yet, he should have killed humans rather than only torturing them. Then we would have been told next to nothing about it at all. It might have been reported, but it wouldn’t have become a hot topic, an echo-chambered story to be dismissed only after a great deal of hand-wringing. read more

Truckfuls of Bodies Read More »

Book Breakout on September 1st

Leave a Comment /

"Daybreak offers a powerful and compelling picture of what real change in America could look like. The world needs more true advocates of democracy like David Swanson!" — Thom Hartmann, Author, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight 

Many more people could be made aware of this new book were it at the top of the rankings on Amazon.com. One way we can put it there is for everyone to purchase the book from Amazon on the same day, Tuesday, September 1, 2009.

Sign up on read more

Book Breakout on September 1st Read More »

Nascence to End Work

Leave a Comment /

By David Swanson

Cultures isolated from modernity have tended not to engage in anything resembling what we call work. When we began inventing modern time-saving devices and increasing productivity in our factories (and, yes, exploiting other peoples to do the factory work) we were always told we’d be able to work less — often by people who clearly imagined there were limits to human greed and cruelty.

We live in a culture now where any talk of not wanting to work is immediately understood read more

Nascence to End Work Read More »