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Guest AuthorApril 7, 2015

Can it matter that a famous actress will play a drone pilot on stage in New York and play it as a troubled murderer with an updated effort to wash out the damn spot of blood on her famous hands? With permanent war declared the norm and entirely acceptable, only a generation removed from wisdom […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 10, 2015

Matthew Carr’s new book, Sherman’s Ghosts: Soldiers, Civilians, and the American Way of War, is presented as “an antimilitarist military history” – that is, half of it is a history of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s conduct during the U.S. Civil War, and half of it is an attempt to trace echoes of Sherman through major […]

Guest AuthorJanuary 5, 2015

The cover of the January-February 2015 The Atlantic asks, “Why Do The Best Soldiers in the World Keep Losing?” which leads to this article, which fails to answer the question. The main focus of the article is the by now endlessly familiar discovery that most Americans are not in the military. The article is accompanied […]

Guest AuthorDecember 29, 2014

The U.S.-led NATO war on Afghanistan has lasted so long they’ve decided to rename it, declare the old war over, and announce a brand new war they’re just sure you’re going to love. The war thus far has lasted as long as U.S. participation in World War II plus U.S. participation in World War I, […]

Guest AuthorDecember 22, 2014

Senator Ron Wyden has a petition up at MoveOn.org that reads, “Right now, torture is banned because of President Obama’s executive order. It’s time for Congress to pass a law banning torture, by all agencies, so that a future president can never revoke the ban.” It goes on to explain: “We live in a dangerous […]

Guest AuthorDecember 15, 2014

This weekend I participated in an interesting exercise. A group of activists staged a debate in which some of us argued that peace and environmental and economic justice are possible, while another group argued against us. The latter group professed to not believe its own statements, to be dirtying itself with bad arguments for the […]

Guest AuthorDecember 8, 2014

Rolling Stone Magazine alleged a gang rape at the University of Virginia and now doubts its own report. I have no knowledge of the matter. Maybe the victim was completely honest. Maybe she was largely honest but too drunk, or too traumatized to remember which fraternity house she was in. Maybe she made it all […]

Tag: David Swanson

David Swanson: Can Anne Hathaway's 'Grounded' ground war drones?

David Swanson: Exporting Sherman's March

David Swanson: Why does U.S. keep losing wars? Atlantic fails to provide answer

David Swanson: Renaming Afghan war, renaming murder

David Swanson: The case against re-banning torture yet again

David Swanson: We’re not exceptional, we’re isolated

David Swanson: Silver linings in Rolling Stone Magazine rape fiasco