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David Swanson

David Swanson is the author of "When the World Outlawed War," "War Is A Lie" and "Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union." He blogs at http://davidswanson.org and http://warisacrime.org and works for the online activist organization http://rootsaction.org

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11 February 2007
Feith based intelligence
David Swanson
On Newsweek's website you can flip through a short PDF slideshow of a presentation produced by the Pentagon in 2002. The presentation purports to show that...
11 February 2007
Sex and torture in America
David Swanson
How does sex differ from torture?  The one is good and the other bad, might be your immediate reply.  But were I to describe an act of torture, this would be...
10 February 2007
100 Senators quietly vote: majority oppose escalation
David Swanson
This MyDD blog entry and this Politico article describe this PDF showing the results of a poll of all 100 U.S. Senators. It asks how they voted on the war in...
09 February 2007
Dems change the gas and claim it's a new car
David Swanson
Democrats on Capitol Hill see the world through bureaucratic shades and have been circulating this self-congratulatory Email:

"Over the last four...
07 February 2007
Rightwingers attacking war supporters
David Swanson
This is what it's come to.  The local newspaper in my town in Virginia today ran an op-ed by rightwinger Cal Thomas attacking Hillary Clinton for her past...
07 February 2007
How a bill becomes a signing statement
David Swanson
At the House Judiciary Committee hearings on Bush's use of signing statements on Wednesday, two exchanges at the end were quite revealing.  Four hours into a...

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