Saturday June 8 is packed in Washington, D.C. Here’s where I’ll be and I hope to see you! –David Swanson
PROTEST CIA DRONE KILLS
I’ll be speaking to a group of protesters of drone murder in front of CIA headquarters. We’ll be there from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. You can park next door at Langley Fork Park at 6414 Georgetown Pike McLean, VA 22101. Join us!
REMEMBER THE USS LIBERTY
USS Liberty survivors and their families and friends
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There’s no end to the pro-war movies we’re subjected to: countless celebrations of bombs, guns, and torture. They come in the form of cartoons, science-fiction, historical fiction, dramas, and reenactments pre-censored by the CIA. Movies show us the excitement without the suffering. War in our theaters resembles almost anything else more than it resembles war.
Journalists appear in our movies too, usually as comic figures, talking-head air-heads, numskulls, and sycophants.
An Anti-War Blockbuster Read More »
Ever More Shocked, Never Yet Awed
By David Swanson
March 18, 2013
These downloads are free: PDF, EPUB, MOBI.
Swanson spoke on this topic in Washington, D.C., on Monday, March 18th.
CONTENTS:
Summary
Unknown Knowns: What Americans Don’t Know About Iraq
THE DAMAGE
Measuring Deaths: How Many People Has the United States Killed in Iraq?
Injuries in Iraq: How Many People Has the United States Wounded in Iraq?
Refugees: How Many People Has the United States Driven From Their Homes in Iraq?
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“Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their peoples in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was their object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.”–Abraham Lincoln
AFGHANISTAN
Prior to 2001, the Taliban was willing to turn Osama bin Laden over to a third country
Lies and Consequences in Our Past 15 Wars Read More »
There’s a new Atrocity Prevention Board in town, and its chief tool for preventing atrocities will be . . . wait for it . . . atrocities!
What a breakthrough! And this clown is forming a tentative life partnership with an unbelievably beautiful model from Libya. The key word is “unbelievably.”
The Atrocity Prevention Board is rumored to still be married to World War II, but the primary reason to doubt the latest gossip is the grotesque hideousness of the Libyan
The Libyan Model and the Oxymoron: Class of 2012 Queen and King Read More »
In her spare time, between nonstop peace activism and leading international exchanges, Medea Benjamin has somehow managed to write the best book yet on the most inhuman form of war yet. The book is called “Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control.” The foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich and a form to pre-order the book are here.
Even if you’ve been reading everything you could about drones, attending peace conferences, and protesting in the lobbies of drone companies like
Robots Kill, But the Blood Is on Our Hands Read More »
Wednesday evening, when the news was mistakenly announced that Troy Davis would not be killed, the crowd that I was with erupted with joy and with the enthusiastic realization that we all were capable of believing that something good had been done by our government. I was at the dedication of the Howard Zinn room in the new Busboys and Poets restaurant in Hyattsville, Maryland.
Some of us had been assigned to read selections from the late Zinn’s “Voices of a People’s History
Troy Davis and Our Pro-Life Government Read More »
By David Swanson, WarIsACrime.org
On Valentine’s Day 2011, yet another U.S. judge agreed with yet another claim that President Obama has the right to protect members of the Bush-Cheney administration from prosecution for torture.
But a coalition of human rights groups spent the day visiting the Spanish Embassy in Washington, D.C., and Spanish colsulates around the United States to share some love for a country that is working to prosecute former top Bush officials for torture.
The coalition
Americans Spent Valentine's Day Thanking Spain for Prosecuting Bush Lawyers Read More »
By David Swanson
This debate over the merits of one Democratic congress member may have relevance for others around the country.
I recently posted On Voting for Bad Democrats: the Perriello Predicament, expressing doubts about exactly how progressive Congressman Tom Perriello (D., VA-05) is.
Bill Lankford sent me a response, arguing in favor of supporting Perriello. I said I would post it, but asked if there was any way to strengthen it by mentioning even one thing Perriello had done in the past
The Pro-Perriello Argument Read More »
LILA’s next show…
please listen in or log on
How to Listen
Monday morning at 7 on CONNECT THE DOTS on KPFK fm (90.7 in LA. 98.7 Santa Barbara) or log on to:
http://archive.kpfk.org/parchive/index.php?shokey=ctd
Host: Lila Garrett
Guests:
PAUL MAZURSKY, film maker (An Unmarried Woman, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Moscow on the Hudson) covers the evolution of movies, our world, and Amnesty International (he’s on the Exec. Board). A fun 20 minutes with a great film maker.
DAVID SWANSON,
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