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A built-in cure for war
by David Swanson
Erin Niemela's recent proposal that we amend the Constitution to ban war is provocative and persuasive. Count me in. But I have a related idea that I think should be tried first.
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Drones on trial
by Nicholas Hills
Part I
The President’s recent address concerning the War on Terror as it relates to drone warfare has supposedly set the stage for a revitalized American foreign policy. Whereas drone strikes merely described the previous administration’s handling of terrorist threats to the United States, this surreptitious war tactic has actually defined and illuminated the current Obama administration’s congruent pursuit. While acknowledging four American casualties, President Obama stridently defended the drone program as effective, moral, and legal. In his address’ most profound and chilling moment, the President reflected on the drones’ tendencies to cause civilian casualties. “For me, and those in my chain of command, these deaths will haunt us as long as we live," he said. Needless to emphasize further, the drone program is a serious matter that raises questions and requires a proper examination and understanding.
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Memorial Day THIS
by David Swanson
Imagine if at some point during the 1990s or 1980s the President of the United States had given a speech. And this was his speech:
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Tales in a Kabul restaurant
by Kathy Kelly
Kabul--Since 2009, Voices for Creative Nonviolence has maintained a grim record we call the “The Afghan Atrocities Update” which gives the dates, locations, numbers and names of Afghan civilians killed by NATO forces. Even with details culled from news reports, these data can't help but merge into one large statistic, something about terrible pain that's worth caring about but that is happening very far away.
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Stay out of Syria
by Foreign Policy Branch of the Green Shadow Cabinet
The following statement of Leah Bolger, Secretary of Defense and David Swanson, Secretary of Peace, of the Foreign Affairs Branch of the Green Shadow Cabinet, is available online here. It may be republished with attribution and a link back to its original web location.
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Libyan door to Syrian door to Iran
by David Swanson
"Our intelligence community does assess with varying degrees of confidence that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons on a small scale in Syria, specifically the chemical agent sarin."
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Time to Renounce the "War on Terror"
by Norman Solomon
As a perpetual emotion machine -- producing and guzzling its own political fuel -- the "war on terror" continues to normalize itself as a thoroughly American way of life and death. Ongoing warfare has become a matter of default routine, pushed along by mainline media and the leadership of both parties in Washington. Without a clear and effective upsurge of opposition from the grassroots, Americans can expect to remain citizens of a war-driven country for the rest of their lives.
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Time for a Department of Peace
by David Swanson
I'm honored to have accepted the position of Secretary of Peace in the newly formed Green Shadow Cabinet. Of course, I cannot contrast my positions with those of the actual Secretary of Peace, as the United States has no such position.
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People and peace over plutocracy
by David Swanson
Remarks for conference on Building Bridges and Creating the Beloved Community, April 13, 2013
Sponsored by Maryland United for Peace and Justice, Maryland United for Peace and Justice
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The Growing Campaign to Revoke Obama's Nobel Peace Prize
by Norman Soloman
The Nobel Peace Prize that President Obama received 40 months ago has emerged as the most appalling Orwellian award of this century. No, war is not peace.
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Recent War Articles

Interview with Iraqi journalist Salam Talib
  December 8, 2008
  Tom Over

When will we liberate the Iraqis?
  December 5, 2008
  David Swanson

When will we liberate the Iraqis?
  December 2, 2008
  David Swanson

Ending the war without end
  October 18, 2008
  David Swanson

Stigmatizing war
  July 18, 2008
  Robert C. Koehler

Columbus City for Peace petition
  June 16, 2008
  Doug Todd

The politics of peace
  May 22, 2008
  Robert C. Koehler

Shattering the war consensus
  April 26, 2008
  Robert C. Koehler

Can grandmothers end wars?
  April 25, 2008
  David Swanson

Where war meets peace
  March 24, 2008
  Robert C. Koehler

Building an activist movement to end the occupation of Iraq
  March 24, 2008
  David Swanson

The making of “Operation Iraqi Freedom”
  March 23, 2008
  Jason Leopold

Iraq War - Robinson remarks
  March 23, 2008
  David W. Robinson, Candidate, Ohio's 12th U.S. Congressional District

How to end the war in one day
  March 13, 2008
  Gregg Gordon

Losing the future
  March 5, 2008
  Robert C. Koehler

Senator Feingold's peace effort
  March 5, 2008
  David Swanson

Kick that barrel
  February 23, 2008
  Mike Ferner

Iraq occupation worse than ever, Cville Weekly's "coverage" close behind
  February 13, 2008
  David Swanson

Defeat without end
  February 2, 2008
  Robert C. Koehler

Peace movement's options in 2008
  January 19, 2008
  David Swanson

A surge of more lies
  January 16, 2008
  Congressman Robert Wexler

Three arrested and delay Huckabee appearance at Des Moines campaign headquarters
  January 7, 2008
  Brian Terrell, Catholic Peace Ministry




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