What If UK Drops Out of All US Wars?
LONDON -- Before long public pressure might just lead Britain to drop out of participation in US wars, a move that would seriously damage future pretenses of acting as an international coalition.I've...
View ArticleCongress Members Sue Obama to End War
On Wednesday in federal court, 10 members of the U.S. Congress sued President Obama in an attempt to end U.S. involvement in a war in Libya.These are the plaintiffs: Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Walter...
View ArticleVideo: David Swanson on War Powers in Washington Today
This discussion touches on Libya and Afghanistan.
View ArticleCongress Finally Finds Its Purse
For years there was debate on Capitol Hill over whether or not Congress could end a war by cutting off the funding. Despite the Constitution's clarity, and the clarity of numerous precedents, Senator...
View ArticleWhen the Public Rises, We'll Want an Ally in Congress
For the majority of people in the United States -- a majority does not vote, a majority believes the government is broken, a majority thinks our public policy is headed in the wrong direction -- the...
View ArticleWe Just Stopped Congress From Giving the Power of War to Presidents
"What's the point?" "We never win!" "Why bother trying?" This time we won.This is the point. Congressman Buck McKeon and Senator John McCain proposed to give Obama and all future presidents...
View ArticleCongresspeak: The Language of Impotence
The House of Representatives would be better off speaking Arabic. See if you can make heads or tails of this.The House voted down a bill to end the Libya War.At the same time, it passed a nonbinding...
View ArticleEnding the Mindset That Gets Us into War
MAY 20, 2012, MILITARIZED CHICAGO -- Next month in Baltimore they're going to celebrate the War of 1812. That's what we do with wars. We say they're the last resort. We say they're hell. We say...
View ArticleWars That Aren't Meant to Be Won
In War Is A Lie I looked at pretended and real reasons for wars and found some of the real reasons to be quite irrational. It should not shock us then to discover that the primary goal in fighting a...
View ArticleWhy I'm Attending the Dedication of the Bush Lie Bury
On April 25th the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum and General Rehabilitation Project will be dedicated in Dallas, Texas. It takes up 23 acres at Southern Methodist University, 23 acres...
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Awkwardest and Most Authoritative Ever Comments on Drones
The comments come from Malala and the U.N. respectively.President Obama invited Malala Yousafzai, a 16-year-old Pakistani advocate for girls' education, to meet with his family. And she promptly...
View ArticleCan We Really Blame Sociopaths?
I've been hearing increasingly from multiple quarters that the root of our problems is psychopaths and sociopaths and other loosely defined but definitely different beings from ourselves. Rob Kall has...
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