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The Pentagon is starting to cut weapons programs, and peace groups are bound to cheer.

I don’t just mean pseudo-peace groups funded by the makers of OTHER weapons systems (and these do exist, and you should be wary of any campaign obsessed with ending a particular weapon). I mean ordinary peace groups. Because we’ve been demanding an end to wasteful weapons systems, fraudulent and outdated weapons systems, weapons systems designed for nonexistent enemies. We claimed that those read more

By David Swanson

One member of Congress stood alone 7.5 years ago against the original authorization to attack Afghanistan. And one member of Congress, a different one, stood alone last week against funding a massive escalation of that war.

On September 14th, 2001, Congresswoman Barbara Lee spoke, in tears, on the floor of the House of Representatives. She, alone, would vote No on letting the president decide on going to war in Afghanistan. She, alone, would refuse to authorize the president read more

By David Swanson

Doug Feith is bluffing big time, and he’s lifted Dick Cheney and George Bush onto the table as his bet. Now if only he could stop visibly sweating.

Feith’s Wall Street Journal column on Friday argues that Spain has no right to put Americans on trial for torture, at least not second-tier officials who provided pseudo-legal justifications for torture and advocated its use, actions read more

By David Swanson

While General David “Betray Us” Petraeus must be thrilled with his conversion from traitor to saint in the eyes of the pseudo-left and amazed that such things can be accomplished simply by changing the political party of the president, the group that formerly bashed him with an ad in the New York Times and now supports whatever Obama does is not as new to supporting wars as this simple story suggests.

Sure, MoveOn tripled its membership by opposing the invasion of Iraq read more

By David Swanson

“Myth America: 10 Greatest Myths of the Robber Class and the Case for Revolution.” That’s the title of a booklet Cindy Sheehan is selling online. I know we have CNBC to set us straight on such things, but I thought I’d check out Cindy’s take. Her full-length books have been terrific, and I’ve published 1,631 read more