By David Swanson

George W. Bush has been compared to Curious George the monkey for many years, but the comparison didn’t quite fit until now. Every Curious George story must include these plot elements:

1. The man with the yellow hat shows George something irresistible, asks him to leave it alone, and then wanders off.
2. George resists everything except temptation and causes all kinds of trouble.
3. Someone makes the bizarre claim that George has done more good than harm, gives read more

By David Swanson

Dear Producers and Editors,

Now that you’re beginning to talk about the fact that our country tortured people in order to elicit war rationales, can we talk for a minute? I’d like to point a few things out that you can verify without spending a dime on investigative reporting. First, we now know that we tortured in hopes of producing justifications for a war. Let’s suppose that this was done in “good faith” and that the lies al Libi told to stop read more

By David Swanson

Imagine if Spain indicts Gonzales, Bybee, Haynes, Yoo, Addington, and Feith, but the United States fails to extradite them and in fact appears guilty of having harbored and possibly even employed them at good salaries. Then suppose — use your imagination! — that Spain invades and occupies the United States. Now, imagine that seven years later we still aren’t happy with being occupied by Spain, and the people of Spain oppose their own government’s crimes read more