Chicago: Peace Town
by David Swanson
A huge crowd gathered for several hours and marched for over two miles in the hot sun to oppose NATO and U.S. wars on Sunday in Chicago. Finishing the march outside the NATO meeting, numerous U.S. veterans of current wars denounced their previous "service" and threw their medals over the fence, a scene not witnessed since the U.S. war on Vietnam.
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Is peace getting in the way of our war plans?
by David Swanson
What a bizarre circumstance this is. The irrational Iranians are behaving too reasonably.
The unmovable Iranians seem to be compromising too readily.
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Colin Powell's tangled web
by David Swanson
“I get mad when bloggers accuse me of lying -- of knowing the information was false. I didn’t.” -- Colin Powell.
Can you imagine having an opportunity to address the United Nations Security Council about a matter of great global importance, with all the world's media watching, and using it to… well, to make shit up – to lie with a straight face, and with a CIA director propped up behind you, I mean to spew one world-class, for-the-record-books stream of bull, to utter nary a breath without a couple of whoppers in it, and to look like you really mean it all? What gall. What an insult to the entire world that would be.
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Recent War Articles

Chicago: Peace Town
  May 21, 2012
  David Swanson

Is peace getting in the way of our war plans?
  May 15, 2012
  David Swanson

Colin Powell's tangled web
  May 10, 2012
  David Swanson

"We Did Not Choose This War" and other hypocrisies
  May 3, 2012
  Leah Bolger and David Swanson

Complaint against Interrogation techniques at Gitmo
  April 25, 2012
  Trudy Bond

Chemical warfare
  April 13, 2012
  Robert C. Koehler

20-year veteran pleads guilty to act of civil disobedience, President of Veterans For Peace disrupted Congressional "Super Committee"
  April 12, 2012
  David Swanson

Why we should outgrow "diversity of tactics" before protesting NATO
  April 8, 2012
  David Swanson

The Shifting Strategies of Empire
  April 1, 2012
  David Swanson

FINDING THE WISDOM WE NEED TO SURVIVE
  April 1, 2012
   ROBERT C. KOEHLER

Obama declares war on Iraq an honorable success 2 weeks early for April Fool's Day
  March 31, 2012
  David Swanson

No Justice Without Peace
  March 29, 2012
  David Swanson

The Bad Apple
  March 29, 2012
  Robert C. Koehler

Nine years later: More shocked, less awed
  March 20, 2012
  David Swanson, Remarks at the Left Forum

DEATH AND PUBLIC RELATIONS
  March 17, 2012
  ROBERT C. KOEHLER

Kandahar 'killing-spree' militarism: A call for U.S. and Afghan citizens to question the U.S./Afghan Strategic Partnership Agreement
  March 13, 2012
  Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers

The 10 Most Excellent Reasons to Attack Iran
  March 7, 2012
  David Swanson

Saying no to militarism
  February 26, 2012
  Robert C. Koehler

My life as a post 9/11 Iraqi immigrant
  February 16, 2012
  Alan Karam

A One Percenter Puts Over $200 Million into the Peace Movement
  February 15, 2012
  David Swanson

Lucid derangement
  January 28, 2012
  David Swanson

"Snowed in in Seattle": A plea for peace to the White House
  January 23, 2012
  Cynthia McKinney

Book just published surveys current state of the military industrial complex
  January 16, 2012
  David Swanson

Thailand's Islamist war could become Yemen or Afghanistan, diplomats warn
  January 16, 2012
  Richard S. Ehrlich

A moment of cynicism
  January 16, 2012
  Robert C. Koehler

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