War Is A Lie

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:

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 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.

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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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