David Swanson

David Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is director of WorldBeyondWar.org and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org. Swanson’s books include War Is A Lie and When the World Outlawed War. He blogs at DavidSwanson.org and WarIsACrime.org. He hosts Talk Nation Radio. He is a 2015, 2016, 2017 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee.

El propio personal de Colin Powell le había advertido contra sus mentiras de guerra

A raíz de la confesión grabada en video de Curveball, el mentiroso de las armas de destrucción masiva, Colin Powell estaba exigiendo saber por qué nadie le advirtió sobre la falta de fiabilidad de Curveball. El problema es que lo hicieron.

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Colin Powell holds up a vial he said could contain anthrax as he presents evidence of Iraq's alleged weapons programs to the United Nations Security Council in this Feb. 5, 2003 file photo. (Photo: AP/Elise Amendola)

(DavidSwanson.org) — In the wake of WMD-liar Curveball’s videotaped confession, Colin Powell was demanding to know why nobody warned him about Curveball’s unreliability. The trouble is, they did. Can you imagine having an opportunity to address the United Nations Security Council about a matter of great global importance, with all the world’s

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¿Cómo vas a pagar por ello? Deja de dar dinero a Israel

Israel no es un país pobre. Ciertamente no es el más pobre del mundo. Entonces, ¿por qué es el principal receptor de "ayuda" militar de los Estados Unidos?

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Pence AIPAC Feature photo

(DavidSwanson.org) —Did you know that the U.S. government has done something odd with your tax dollars? The ones you get so furious and indignant about when they’re used to feed anybody who’s hungry? It has given over 280 billion of those dollars to the government of Israel (not counting classified hush-hush super-secret amounts). Israel is

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Mientras Estados Unidos se enfrenta al coronavirus, el Congreso entra en acción … en un nuevo borrador militar

¿Qué es lo más tonto que podría hacer el Congreso en este momento? ¿Qué tal impulsar un proyecto de ley para obligar a las mujeres jóvenes a registrarse para un reclutamiento militar? Conoce a HR 6415.

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Coronavirus military draft feature photo

(DavidSwanson.org) — I know it’s stiff competition, but hear me out. The threat of nuclear apocalypse is higher than ever. The threat of irreversible climate collapse is higher than ever and massively contributed to by militarism. The trillions of dollars being dumped into militarism are desperately needed for actual defense against these dangers

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¿El excepcionalismo estadounidense está dando forma a nuestra respuesta científica al coronavirus?

Si bien la ciudad de Nueva York sufre de coronavirus, vale la pena recordar que, en nombre de la ciencia en 1966, el gobierno de los EE. UU. Lanzó bacterias en el metro de Nueva York. Y eso es solo la punta del iceberg.

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coronavirus response feature photo

(DavidSwanson.org) — What’s the matter with science? By that, do I mean, why don’t we turn away from corrupt politics and religion and follow the way of science? Or do I mean, why have we allowed science to so corrupt our politics and our culture? I mean, of course, both. We don’t need an uneducated jackass telling people how to control a viral

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Imaginar un departamento de defensa real en tiempos de coronavirus

El pequeño coronavirus microscópico muestra una vez más el fracaso y las limitaciones del militarismo al abordar los problemas apremiantes que enfrenta la humanidad.

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coronavirus Army Feature photo

(DavidSwanson.org) -- When a few thousand people were murdered on September 11, 2001, I was actually stupid enough – I kid you not – to imagine that the general public would conclude that because massive military forces, nuclear arsenals, and foreign bases had done nothing to prevent and much to provoke those crimes, the U.S. government would need

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Murder Incorporated, A Critique of US Imperialism

Dreaming of Empire does not try to leave the past in the past. Instead, it proposes to explain current wars, the weaponization of outer space, and the rhetoric of contemporary U.S. politics through a myth-busting hard look at the past.

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Murder Incorporated & Dreaming of Empire

Murder Incorporated is a three-book series by Mumia Abu Jamal and Stephen Vittoria, which I can highly recommend based on the first book. The other two are not out yet. Book One, “Dreaming of Empire,” is a critique of U.S. imperialism, a debunking of U.S. nationalist myths, a corrective or alternative history of the U.S. nation. Politically, a

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Is Trump Pushing Neutral Groups Like the ACLU Towards an Anti War Stance?

Large, well-funded organizations are beginning to edge toward opposition to at least certain wars, organizations that didn’t oppose any wars when George Bush II was president, much less when Obama was.

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Peace activist Marilyn Cornell, of Strongsville, Ohio, holds an American flag with a peace sign on it during an anti-war protest in Washington, on March 20, 2010, where thousands of protesters marched through Washington to protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan on the seventh anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

For those of us who fully expected most U.S. peace activists to vanish once Barack Obama became president but expected them to come back once Donald Trump ascended the throne, the failure of our second expectation has been hard, crushingly hard. But there are a few silver linings. First, there is now a multi-issue campaign that, unlike the

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