War Is A Lie

PITTSBURGH (NEWSRADIO 1020 KDKA) — KDKA Radio’s Chris Moore spoke with David Swanson about his views on what war really is.

Swanson is the author of “War is a Lie” and expresses his views on how wars really could have been avoided.

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By Mumia Abu Jamal

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I wonder sometimes if the average American stops, looks at the chaos in the world, and wonders, how did we get here?

Does she simply shrug it off as ‘fate’, shake the thought away, and go shopping at the mall in thrall to the new?

Does he put it down as a latter-day expression of the biblical proverb, ‘there will be wars, and rumors of war’, and turn to the latest game on ESPN and mist over the doubt, the fear, read more

By Lee Shearer, Athens Banner-Herald

Humanity seems bent on destroying itself, according to David Swanson, the featured speaker for this year’s 33rd annual Athens Human Rights Festival.

“I think our country and our world are headed in very dangerous directions,” said blogger, author and anti-war activist David Swanson – growing ill-will, resentment and antagonism among peoples, continuing proliferation of deadly weapons, and humanity’s seeming march toward extinction read more

Henry Raines Show 05/03/11

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Guest: David Swanson is Co-Founder of AfterDowningStreet.org and the Washington Director of Democrats.com. His most recent book is War is a Lie (2010), in which he refutes every major argument used to justify wars, with the aim to debunk future lies before future wars have a chance to begin. He is frequently published in and heard on both progressive and conservative media. Recent blogs include Libya: Another Neocon War� (4/21/11) and A United Theory of War and Taxes read more

Los Angeles, California
April 30, 2011
Forum sponsored by http://icujp.org
video by Anthony Manousos

NOTE: The questions got more interesting as it went along, but Manousos only got the beginning of the Q&A recorded, so watch for other read more

By BiteBack Publishing

Hindsight can be a troublesome thing. I distinctly remember ranting on this very blog about Gaddafi’s barbaric treatment of his own people. I never went so far as to suggest that we should send in the gunboats, so to speak, but rest assured, I thought it. When I read David Cameron’s words to the Kuwaiti Parliament and then again in the UK Parliament, I felt reasurred that we should back read more

By David Swanson, The Guardian

Liberal supporters of this ‘humanitarian intervention’ have merely become useful idiots of the same old nefarious purposes

Muammar Gaddafi’s deals with the west may have helped him tighten his grip on the Libyan people. Photograph: Louafi Larbi/Reuters

The US department of justice (DOJ) has submitted a written defence of the US role in this new war in Libya to the US Congress. The DOJ claims the war serves the US national interest in regional stability and in maintaining the credibility of the United Nations. Who knew?

The regional stability line would be a stretch for the UK read more

http://www.bitebackpublishing.com

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN HONEST WAR

ISBN: 9781849540926
368pp paperback
£12.99
PUBLISHED: 19 May 2011

Every war ever fought has been sold to both sides as a fight between the forces of good and evil. Politicians are willing to tell any lie to ensure the public believe they were in the right and the enemy undeniably in the wrong.

In War is a Lie, anti-war activist David Swanson deconstructs virtually every argument ever put forward in favour of war. Drawing read more

Upcoming public events:

Saturday, April 30, 2011
3:15 – 5:15 pm Book signing at Los Angeles Times Festival of Books ( http://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks ), at the Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace ( http://www.icujp.org ) booth, Booth 921.
University of Southern California

7:30 – 9:30 pm “The Costs of War” with David Swanson, Chris Hedges, Paul Chappell, and Lewis Logan, moderated by Ameena Mirza Qazi.
United University Church at the read more

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This speech was given in Wilmington, Delaware, on March 20, 2011. Dahlia Wasfi and Dave Lindorff spoke as well and then the three speakers took questions together. (See additional videos.) The event was organized by June Eisley and sponsored by Pacem in Terris.

Audio from WDEL: Listen. This show is in Wilmington, DE, where I’ll be on Sunday:

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Sunday, March 20th
2-4 p.m.
Westminster Presbyterian Church
http://www.wpc.org
Pennsylvania Ave. & North Rodney Street
Wilmington, DE
Sponsored by Pacem in Terris

David Swanson & Dahlia Wasfi & Dave Lindorff

Dave Lindorff is a veteran investigative reporter, author of “The Case for Impeachment,” founding editor of the online newspaper ThisCantBeHappening! and is read more

Miguel Sevener is publishing my book “War Is A Lie,” one chapter at a time, in Spanish at http://mentirasdeguerra.wordpress.com

When he’s finished I’ll be able to sell copies of the book in Spanish from http://warisalie.org

And donations to provide the book to peace and counterrecruitment groups (which I encourage you to keep making at https://davidswanson.org/give ) will be able to provide the book in English and Spanish to groups that can use each version.

A giant GRACIAS read more

Click for flyer (PDF):

Sunday, March 20th
2-4 p.m.
Westminster Presbyterian Church
http://www.wpc.org
Pennsylvania Ave. & North Rodney Street
Wilmington, DE
Sponsored by Pacem in Terris

David Swanson & Dahlia Wasfi & Dave Lindorff

Dave Lindorff is a veteran investigative reporter, author of “The Case for Impeachment,” founding editor of the online newspaper ThisCantBeHappening! and is a regular columnist at Counterpunch and Truthout. He will speak on “Afghanistan: read more

Many discussions of lies that launch wars quickly come around to the question “Well then why did they want the war?” There is usually more than one single motive involved, but the motives are not terribly hard to find.

Unlike many soldiers who have been lied to, most of the key war deciders, the masters of war who determine whether or not wars happen, do not in any sense have noble motives for what they do. Though noble motives can be found in the reasoning of some of those involved, read more

Remarks in Boca Raton, Fla., February 26, 2011

I really want to thank Nancy Parker and everyone who helped put this event together. I would have come just to hear the other two speakers. I’ve learned a lot from Sandy Davies and consider his book required reading for all Americans. And it’s an honor to speak together with Ben Ferencz who has been advancing the rule of law since the age when — more so than not — the United States was a proponent of international justice.

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