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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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Top 10 Reasons to Pretend It’s Unusual for the U.S. Government to Blow People Up
Lately I’ve been on shows with other guests who’ve expressed outrage and amazement that the U.S. government would blow up people on boats, exclaiming that they never could have imagined such a thing until this moment. A U.S. senator has said he finds video of one particular missile-murder the most…
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Dismantle the House of Dynamite
This article firrst appeared on World Beyond War. Kathryn Bigelow once worked with the CIA to make a movie widely criticized for dishonestly promoting torture and glorifying killing (Zero Dark Thirty). (She has also explicitly advocated for war making.) Now she…
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Nobel Committee Tried Its Best to Give Trump a Peace Prize
This article first appeared on World Beyond War The Nobel Committee has frequently given the peace prize to major war makers, and frequently to do-gooders whose work in a variety of fields has been unrelated to abolishing war. It has also often given the prize to opponents and victims of…
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The Prince of Peace
For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us;And he will never advance beyond the emotional control of a Small Child;And the government will rest on His shoulders;For the lawmakers shall become as Court Jesters;And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,Eternal Father…