Full Name
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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$3 Trillion a Year for U.S. Military Spending
Recently the least popular person alive said, “I didn’t guarantee no war. Why would I have built the strongest military in the world?”Already unpopular with kind and decent people, Trump may have — with that comment — tanked his popularity with every weapons company public relations hack on Earth.…
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Governments Love Secrecy, But the World’s Major Problems Are Not Secret
I’ve been reading Truth and Consequence: Reflections on Catastrophe, Civil Resistance, and Hope. It’s a collections of things Daniel Ellsberg wrote and didn’t publish. I come to it having read what he did publish, having spoken with him about some of it, having debated him — publicly and privately…
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Now we can protect whistleblowers
The Espionage Act has been used and abused to punish whistleblowers, journalists, and publishers, prosecuting them as if they were traitorous enemies, but denying them the right to put forward the defense that they were exposing, rather than committing, a crime.We've seen indictments of Thomas…
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Stop Trump’s New Mass-Murder Spree
The latest location where Trump has given the orders to murder people is Iran.Remember a couple of months back when establishment U.S. lawyers and human rights groups were admitting that Trump’s attacks on boats in the Caribbean and Pacific were nothing other than murder?Murder doesn’t cease being…