Biography
David Swanson is the author of
War Is A Lie and
Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union.
Swanson holds a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Virginia. He has worked as a newspaper reporter and as a communications director, with jobs including press secretary for Dennis Kucinich's 2004 presidential campaign, media coordinator for the International Labor Communications Association, and three years as communications coordinator for ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
Read his full and complete biography on his blog at
DavidSwanson.org and also visit book site at
War Is Crime.
Next month in Baltimore they’re going to celebrate the War of 1812. That’s what we do with wars. We say they’re the last resort.
May 20th, 2012 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Editors Picks,Foreign Relations,Government,Legislation,Politics | Read More »
Now here’s a book that’s meant to be used: “Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution” edited by Andrew Boyd and Dave Oswald Mitchell.
May 18th, 2012 | Posted in Arts & Entertainment,Book Reviews,Living | Read More »
Do you have to be xenophobic, paranoid, isolationist, or libertarian to protest a secretive gathering of over 100 billionaires, industrialists, media barons, and politicians working to shape our public sphere, or has the left dropped the ball?
May 16th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Editors Picks,World | Read More »
Veterans for Peace works for the abolition of war, and while that process will take many steps, one that should be taken immediately is the dissolution of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
May 15th, 2012 | Posted in Vet News | Read More »
Sibel Edmonds’ new book, “Classified Woman,” is like an FBI file on the FBI, only without the incompetence.
May 1st, 2012 | Posted in Book Reviews,Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Editors Picks,Foreign Relations,Government,Legislation,Living,Politics | Read More »
They told me I was the best, better than any human. I didn’t hesitate. I didn’t flinch. I didn’t think.
April 29th, 2012 | Posted in Of Interest | Read More »
Scott Camil, a veteran of the second-longest U.S. war in history, that on Vietnam, radically changed a discussion of the longest war in U.S. history, that on Afghanistan, on CNN on Sunday.
April 22nd, 2012 | Posted in Vet News | Read More »
Cases come in by the thousands from all over the world. A man was beaten and whipped. A woman was beaten and raped.
April 20th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Causes,Environment,Living,Peace,World | Read More »
What a bizarre circumstance this is. The irrational Iranians are behaving too reasonably. The unmovable Iranians seem to be compromising too readily.
April 19th, 2012 | Posted in Causes,Living,Of Interest,Peace | Read More »
On Thursday I was on a train to New York and received an email announcing a protest at the offices of New York’s two U.S. Senators over their cosponsorship of an AIPAC-driven bill that would move the United States closer to war on Iran.
March 24th, 2012 | Posted in Corruption,Politics | Read More »
In her spare time, between nonstop peace activism and leading international exchanges, Medea Benjamin has somehow managed to write the best book yet on the most inhuman form of war yet.
March 22nd, 2012 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
A living-wage campaign has been pressing the university’s overpaid administrators to treat its workers better for the past 14 years.
March 9th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,World | Read More »
When you’re setting a record for the longest modern war, cutting it short just increases the chances of somebody breaking your record some day.
March 8th, 2012 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
Good things do come out of the Virginia state legislature. That normally reprehensible body has just stood up to the federal outrage that has come to be known as the NDAA.
February 29th, 2012 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
After publishing this report I was contacted by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement). The individual involved never returned my call.
February 9th, 2012 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
For progressives and populists around the country who take an interest in Congressional races there are always a few good challengers we might hope to send to Washington. Incumbents, we assume, can take care of themselves.
February 8th, 2012 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
When Congressman Dennis Kucinich introduced 35 articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush o, the 35 had been selected from drafts of nearly twice that many articles.
February 2nd, 2012 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
Imagine if a bunch of the craziest war-hungry Republicans in the House filmed themselves in a nutty bat-guano video packed with lies addressed to the President of the United States.
February 1st, 2012 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
A 24-member delegation from Japan is in Washington, D.C., this week opposing the presence and new construction of U.S. military bases in Okinawa.
January 24th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Asia,World | Read More »
One would think that if condemned to lose sanity it would be preferable not to be aware of what was happening.
January 20th, 2012 | Posted in Corruption,Foreign Relations,Politics | Read More »
The push to attack Iran has been on for so long that entire categories of arguments for it (such as that the Iranians are fueling the Iraqi resistance) have come and gone.
January 6th, 2012 | Posted in Causes,History,Living,Of Interest,Peace | Read More »
I cannot stress sufficiently that we will best move Congress toward peace and justice by keeping it at arm’s length and pressuring it without self-censorship, compromise, or entanglement with one or the other of its two branches: the Democratic or Republican.
December 30th, 2011 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Government,Politics | Read More »
I’m torn between the pleasure of having just read a brilliant and moving first-person stream-of-consciousness account of a true story of one woman’s childhood, and the deep sadness that comes from learning about the absolutely horrific hell that this woman is extremely lucky to have survived — a hell that many others have known and will know, despite the ease with which it might be prevented.
December 29th, 2011 | Posted in Military | Read More »
I stopped by a corporate chain bookstore this week and checked out the “Current Affairs” section. I was a little surprised to discover that according to a dozen or more books dominating the display we are all under a vicious life-and-death assault.
December 28th, 2011 | Posted in Economy | Read More »
This time of year is ideal for reflecting on the miracle of Christmas 1914, that famous temporary truce and friendship between opposing sides in the midst of a war.
December 22nd, 2011 | Posted in Living,Peace | Read More »
The National Defense Authorization Act is not a leap from democracy to tyranny, but it is another major step on a steady and accelerating decade-long march toward a police state.
December 16th, 2011 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Editors Picks,Government,Legislation,Politics | Read More »
Self-government is not a spectator sport. Elections are not reality shows. There is much more at stake than a soap opera. Stop it. We do not have the time. Get serious. Get independent. Get principled.
December 8th, 2011 | Posted in Americas,Britain United Kingdom,Europe,Iran,Middle East,World | Read More »
The Senate just voted against the Afghanistan war. Here’s the good, the bad, and the ugly.
December 1st, 2011 | Posted in AfPak,WarZone | Read More »
For those who know war only through television, criminalizing it sounds like proposing to criminalize government. But there was a time when the masses made war illegal.
November 26th, 2011 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Foreign Relations,Government,Legislation,Politics | Read More »
Whistleblowing in our federal government may soon be a thing of the past, not because whistleblowers face more vicious retribution than ever before.
November 22nd, 2011 | Posted in Corruption,Politics | Read More »
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