Peace and War

Laura Flanders and Norman Solomon in Charlottesville VA

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CHALLENGING THE WARFARE STATE

Nationally syndicated columnist Norman Solomon and national radio host Laura Flanders will speak in Charlottesville, Va.

Solomon’s latest books are “War Made Easy,” and “Made Love, Got War.” Flanders’ are “Blue Grit,” and “Bush Women.”

October 7 at 7 p.m.

Albemarle County Office Bldg., 401 McIntire Road, Charlottesville, VA

$5 donation requested / no one turned away

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Get Out of the Valley of Elah

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By David Swanson

I spent a day meeting with Congress Members and their staffers, urging them to end the occupation of Iraq, and having them tell me they would never “defund our troops.” In the evening I watched Paul Haggis’s new film “In the Valley of Elah.” I walked out stunned, shaken, far more angry than I’d been, and convinced that we shouldn’t be asking Congress Members to end the occupation, we should be asking them to watch this movie. If any Congress read more

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Worlds Apart

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By David Swanson

The other day I wrote a column that no corporate newspaper would ever dream of printing, but submitted it to all of them anyway in hopes it might jar something loose. The Editorial Page Editor of Barron’s Weekly wrote me back to disagree with my column, and I wrote him back, and he wrote me back, and so forth. The exchange, reproduced below, suggests that two people can read about the same events for several years and still live in completely different worlds.

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World War III

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By David Swanson

The administration of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney is set on a course that leads directly to a third world war. And a third world war leads almost inevitably to most of us dying horrible deaths. And we’re not talking about it.

The White House has made clear it is seriously considering attacking Iran with massive bombing aimed at destroying the nation’s military and changing its government. Iran will certainly retaliate. If attacked, and possibly even if not attacked, read more

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September Showdown or Sellout? The Choice is Ours!

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Congress returns on September 4th after a month’s vacation. It has been 8 months since this Congress took power with a mandate to end the occupation of Iraq and hold Bush and Cheney to the rule of law. This Congress has funded the occupation, legalized unconstitutional spying, and promised never to impeach. Will this trend continue? Can we afford to allow it to? We have killed over a million people, and the death rate read more

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Peace, Injustice, and Ron Paul

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By David Swanson

If Ron Paul had been president for the past 6 years, a million more Iraqis would be alive, and another 4 million would not be refugees. The world would be a safer place, and Americans would have lost fewer freedoms.

But more Americans would lack decent health care. More American children would lack adequate education. More families in America would struggle in poverty. Immigrant families would face increased threats and abuse. Women would have lost rights. And a growing read more

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Slavery, Iraq, and Justice Delayed

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By David Swanson

The Governor of Virginia, Timothy M. Kaine, has just pardoned Gabriel Prosser for leading a slave revolt in Virginia over 200 years ago. Prosser sought to organize thousands of slaves to accomplish the “wholesale massacre” of whites in Richmond and other slave-holding areas, according to historian Virginius Dabney. Kaine cited Prosser’s “devotion to the ideals of the American revolution – it was worth risking death to secure liberty.” Kaine concluded read more

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Film Premiere with special guest David Swanson

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http://narocinema.com

Tuesday, Sept 11 at 7:15pm at Naro Cinema in Norfolk, Va.

NO END IN SIGHT The first film of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq’s descent into guerilla warfare, warlord rule, criminality, and anarchy, writer/director Charles Ferguson’s jaw-dropping documentary is an insider’s tale of wholesale incompetence, recklessness, and venality. Ferguson examines how the principal errors of U.S. policy largely created the insurgency and chaos that engulf Iraq read more

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Honor the Dead, Add No More to Their Number

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By David Swanson

[Remarks at Peace Vigil in Charlottesville, VA, on August 28, 2007]

Thank you all for coming. My name is David Swanson.

Ken Zelin who organized tonight’s vigil asked me to welcome everyone and say a few words.

This event is one of over 500 taking place today all over the country organized by Moveon and many other organizations.

Moveon provided me with suggested things to say, but – for better or worse – and with gratitude for their organizing work, I’m going to make read more

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Made Love, Got War

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By David Swanson

“Made Love, Got War” is the title of Norman Solomon’s latest book, an autobiographical account of the peace and disarmament movements in the United States over the past half century. Better than his other books, I think, this one achieves the level of artistic composition found in Solomon’s brilliant and frequent columns on the media, war, and peace. But the value of “Made Love, Not War” lies in the lessons it provides for current and future read more

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