About David Swanson

Calling Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas

UPDATE: Dates have all been rescheduled and details will be posted soon. And schedule now includes a great event with Cindy Sheehan and Thom Hartmann in Dallas!

Calling Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas: In planning my upcoming book tour, I sent lots of volunteers to organize events in those states to one guy who wanted to coordinate a little tour. Now he’s decided it won’t make him enough money [or rather he wanted to do events with lots of expenses and recoup them], but I don’t remember read more

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How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Marriage

By David Swanson

I wrote this over nine years ago and have now been married for 10 years, and none of the things I was worried about have left our society. But none of them have bothered me. The only thing that bothers me in rereading this is how much I bought into all the warnings about marriage being hard work. Um, when does the hard work start?

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May 30, 2000, will be Anna’s and my first wedding anniversary, on which we’ll finish the cake that’s been in our freezer for nearly read more

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Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union by David Swanson

Book Can Now Be Ordered, Book Tour Being Planned

You can now pre-order my book at Amazon.com at http://tinyurl.com/daybreakbook

It’s a thick book containing everything I know – and then some – for $10 (pre-order discount price).  And you can support a good cause by pre-ordering it now.

You can also call or visit your local bookstore right now and ask them to be sure to stock the book.

If you’re in California, Pennsylvania, Florida, New Mexico,
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NY and MA Events on Accountability, Prosecution, and War Crimes

Is it Still a Crime if a President Does it?
If Obama Keeps the Powers Bush Seized, What Powers Do We Have?
If War Criminals Walk, What Will Prevent Wars?

Join the conversation and get organized to take action at these April events in New York and Massachusetts:

April 18, 2009, 3:00 p.m. New York, NY, panel at the Left Forum at Pace University, One Pace Plaza, organized by Seven Stories Press: David Swanson, Erna Paris, and Minky Worden:
http://www.leftforum.org

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Ann Wright, David Swanson, and Body of War in Lynchburg, Va.

WHAT: Ann Wright and David Swanson speaking prior to screening of “Body of War,” Phil Donahue’s documentary about a veteran of the occupation of Iraq

WHERE: Starlight Cafe
511 5th ST.
Lynchburg, VA 24504

WHEN: 7 p.m., Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Copies of Wright’s book, “DISSENT: Voices of Conscience: Government Insiders Speak Out Against the War in Iraq,” will be available for purchase.
http://www.voicesofconscience.com

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Upcoming Radio

David Swanson on WUSB
Monday, Nov. 17: 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. ET, broadcast from Long Island, NY.
Host: Mort Mecklosky.
Listen / Learn More Here.

David Swanson & Michael Parenti on the Global Research News Hour
Program Details for November 17
Republic Broadcasting Network (RBN)
Hosts: Michel Chossudovsky and Stephen Lendman
Guests: David Swanson and Michael Parenti
Monday, Nov. 17: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. CT, broadcast out of Houston, Texas. Listen / Learn More Here.

David Swanson on Free Press
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You're Two

Dear Wesley,

You’re two today and you’re napping. If you’re dreaming, they’re probably happy dreams. You’re almost always happy awake. Whatever your worst dreams are, they’re probably not worse than what I fear may become of this world and your future in it. You’ve spent your first two years and the nine months before that in a loving family in a beautiful town in a very wealthy country that has shared a little of that wealth with us, though not with read more

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