David Swanson

No, he’s NOT the president of Venezuela. Yes, he was the man who popularized the slogan “Yes, we can!” Only he said “Si’ se puede!” Cesar Chavez, American young people should know, was an American who 40 years ago was inspiring young people to work long, hard hours for social justice. And not only did…

Cindy Sheehan asked if I could record a 3-minute goodbye message to Bush and Cheney for her radio show, so I wrote down and read the following: Never more than in this moment, George, have you been a uniter, not a divider. The joy at your departure is world-wide and wonderful. But I don’t want…

Prepared for this coming Monday in Washington, D.C.: Your Honor, my name is Eve Tetaz. I am 77 years old, and have spent several decades teaching in inner city secondary schools in Washington, DC. Since my retirement, I have been involved with Life Pathways, a non-profit organization that I founded over 15 years ago. We…

Senator Obama published a sketch of a plan for Iraq in the New York Times today, and it’s about the same as his plan has always been, clearly superior to Bush or McCain and yet horribly muddled, vague, and militaristic, until he gets to the highly encouraging last few lines. Obama begins by fudging Maliki’s…

Why is Congress ranked right below Dick Cheney in popularity? Because nobody has yet polled on the popularity of pond scum. The day before Congress tossed the Fourth Amendment, and literally five minutes after they took out a $163 billion loan on behalf of my unborn grandkids to kill Iraqis and U.S. troops for another…

In the back of your head have you ever thought that abandoning an American city and nearby towns to a predictable and predicted natural disaster, and then refusing to repair the damage, ought to be considered unacceptable behavior. On a grander scale, does it strike you that there is something seriously wrong with the Bush…

Former prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi’s new book “The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder” is not just a particularly good addition to the ten-foot high stack of rants against Bush’s crimes and abuses of power. It’s also an argument that state and local prosecutors have the necessary jurisdiction to try Bush for murder and for…