http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Fri, 24 May 2013 17:41:08 Fri, 24 May 2013 17:41:08 The current President and Congress are destroying our Constitutional rights, our planet's climate, and the vestiges of a social safety net, and you are obsessing over a freak show of self-hating homosexuals and anti-intellectual intellectuals jumping through hoops in a corporate media circus with Ri... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/davidswanson/1295 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:48:11 [p]British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's fervent hope for years was that Japan would attack the United States. This would permit the United States (not legally, but politically) to fully enter World War II in Europe, as its president wanted to do, as opposed to merely providing weaponry and ass... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/davidswanson/1294 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:02:01 [p]The funny thing about the bill that the Senate just passed that lets presidents and the military lock you up without a charge or a trial — well, not funny ha ha but funny unusual — is that the basic bill to which that little monstrosity was attached is even worse. It's a bill to dump over $650 bi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/davidswanson/1293 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 00:14:19 Has the First Amendment expired in your public square? Has your local park prioritized empty vistas over the right to petition your government for a redress of grievances, thereby adding one more grievance to the list?

Here's a proposal. Pack up all of your grievances in a bag and bring them to... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/davidswanson/1292 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:03:56 In a hastily thrown together press conference Sunday afternoon, several months in the planning, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said his efforts to spread freedom beyond New York City had included the deployment of 1,000 NYPD officers to Schenectady, where they have just apprehended a young ma... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/davidswanson/1291 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 02:00:56 I'm thankful that a growing number of us reject the idea of a mysterious being to which we should be thankful, and for the concomitant growing assumption of responsibility for our own fate.

I'm thankful that there are so many people doing so many things for which I am thankful.

I'm thankful fo... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/davidswanson/1290 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:13:45 Charlottesville Event with David Swanson's New Book: "When the World Outlawed War"

WHAT: David Swanson with his new book "When the World Outlawed War" and thoughts on activism past and present

WHEN: Wednesday, 7 p.m., November 16, 2011

WHERE: Random Row Books
315 West Main Street
Charlo... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/davidswanson/1289 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:54:45 Not yet 30, Evan Knappenberger has already lived several lives. His story destroys the U.S. government's case against whistleblower Bradley Manning, exposes the toxic mix of fraud and incompetence that creates U.S. war policies, and highlights the damage so often done to soldiers who come home with... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/davidswanson/1288 Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:53:39 November 16th
http://warisacrime.org/content/protest-dick-cheney-charlottesville-va-november-16th... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/davidswanson/1287 Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:50:11 Believe it or not, November 11th was not made a holiday in order to celebrate war, support troops, or cheer the 11th year of occupying Afghanistan. This day was made a holiday in order to celebrate an armistice that ended what was up until that point, in 1918, one of the worst things our species ha... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/davidswanson/1286 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 07:52:44 [p][big][big][b]A Forgotten Law We Need[/b][/big][/big][/p]

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[p]In January 1929 the U.S. Senate ratified by a vote of 85 to 1 a treaty that is still on the books, still upheld by most of the world, still listed on the U... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/davidswanson/1285 Sun, 06 Nov 2011 23:12:33 Can occupations survive a winter of global weirding, escalated police brutality, and the corporate media's venom? Should they?

In some parts of the country there will be no cold weather. In others, police abuses will result in larger occupations, not smaller. And it's certainly possible that for ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/davidswanson/1284 Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:34:57 Weaponized UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), also known as drones, have their own caucus in Congress, and the Pentagon's plan is to give them their own state as well.

Under this plan, 7 million acres (or 11,000 square miles) of land in the southeast corner of Colorado, and 60 million acres of air ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/davidswanson/1283 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:49:36 One of the most valuable benefits of putting political action into the form of nonviolent encampments is that we learn each other's stories as we occupy our public parks and squares. Here's a story from the October2011 occupation in Freedom Plaza, Washington, D.C. There are many more, and we'd like ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/davidswanson/1282 Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:02:34 Yesterday, NPR's PR flack was haranguing me on the phone about how NPR had nothing to do with getting Lisa Simeone fired from an independent program called Soundprint. This was despite NPR having gone public with its concerns over Simeone's "unethical" participation in democracy, and Soundprint's r... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/davidswanson/1281 Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:30:38 National Public Radio on Wednesday discovered that a woman named Lisa Simeone who produced a show about opera called "World of Opera" had been participating in a nonviolent occupation of Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., organized by October2011.org. That same day, NPR persuaded a company for whic... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/davidswanson/1280 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:59:45 http://warisacrime.org/sites/afterdowningstreet.org/files/images/99budget.jpg
[p][span style="font-size:16px;"]We can fit our demands on a bumpersticker: "Majority Rule" or "People Over Profits" or "Love Not Greed."  But we don't want to.  Our government is doing everything wrong, and we should be ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/davidswanson/1279 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 02:20:39 Thanks in large part to the New York and national corporate media a massive campaign to shift power away from giant corporations and into the hands of the people is now afoot all across this continent. It was inspired by peoples' nonviolent uprisings in other countries and sparked by courageous nonv... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/davidswanson/1278 Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:45:37 I sat down during a lengthy protest occupation to play a game of chess, but my friend was better than I am. So, halfway through the match, I said to him, "What's your one move?"

He didn't know what I meant. "What's your one winning move," I said, "and which piece are you going to use? Get all the... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/davidswanson/1277 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 23:35:55 In a recent debate Congressman Ron Paul claimed the United States military had troops in 130 countries. The St. Petersburg Times looked into whether such an outrage could actually be true and was obliged to report that the number was actually 148 countries. However, if you watch NFL football games... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/davidswanson/1276 Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:34:24 Remarks at Lynchburg College on September 26, 2011



I'd like to thank Dave Freier for inviting me, and all of you for being here. I think I was invited to speak about my most recent book, War Is A Lie, but I asked Professor Freier if it would be all right to speak about my next book, not yet... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/davidswanson/1275 Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:06:53 Wednesday evening, when the news was mistakenly announced that Troy Davis would not be killed, the crowd that I was with erupted with joy and with the enthusiastic realization that we all were capable of believing that something good had been done by our government. I was at the dedication of the H... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/davidswanson/1274 Thu, 22 Sep 2011 01:30:14 Congresswoman Barbara Lee, like Jeanette Rankin before her, bravely stood alone in Congress against a vote for war, the vote in 2001 for the so-called Authorization to Use Military Force, a Constitutionally dubious passing of the war decision buck to President Bush and his successors. A majority of... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/davidswanson/1273 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 23:19:53 [p][span style="font-size: 16px;"]It is difficult to watch [a href="http://bit.ly/o5dXkG"]this video[/a] without both crying and being inspired.  Ashley Joppa-Hagemann recounts her husband's struggles before he killed himself to avoid an eighth or ninth tour in the Iraq-Afghanistan Wars. Ashley [a h... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/davidswanson/1272 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 01:27:10 An upcoming Charlottesville conference highlights the importance of whistleblowers when addressing the corruption present in military contracting
By David Swanson, Guest Viewpoint on August 31, 2011, Cavalier Daily
http://www.cavalierdaily.com/2011/08/31/us-or-the-war-machine

YOU MAY have heard... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/davidswanson/1271 Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:55:42