Articles by David Swanson, War Is a Crime
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Peace Ecology
David Swanson, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
With serendipitous timing, as a big march for the climate, and various related events, are planned on and around the International Day of Peace [21 Sep 2014], Randall Amster has just published an important book called Peace Ecology.
→ read full articleIraq Has WMDs and Russia Has Invaded!
David Swanson, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
The U.S. media has repeatedly been claiming that Russia has invaded Ukraine. They claim it for a while, and there’s obviously been no invasion, so they pause. Then they claim it again. Or they claim that a convoy of aid trucks constitutes an invasion.
→ read full articleMonty Python State Department
David Swanson, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2014
No actual diplomats were harmed in the making of this production. Scene: A cafe. One table is occupied by a group of Vikings wearing horned helmets.
→ read full articleDemand Swells for Straight Answers on Plane in Ukraine
David Swanson, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
22 Aug 2014 – A long list of prominent individuals has signed, a number of organizations will be promoting next week, and you can be one of the first to sign right now, a petition titled “Call For Independent Inquiry of the Airplane Crash in Ukraine and its Catastrophic Aftermath.”
→ read full articleIf a Genocide Falls in the Forest
David Swanson, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2014
There’s a wide and mysterious chasm between the intentions of the Israeli government as depicted by the U.S. media and what it has been doing in Gaza, even as recounted in the U.S. media. With the morgues full, Gazans are packing freezers with their dead children. Meanwhile, the worst images to be found in Israel depict fear, not death and suffering.
→ read full articleCNN: Palestinians Want to Die
David Swanson, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2014
William Westmoreland once remarked on Vietnam, where the United States killed 4 million men, women, children, and infants: “The Oriental doesn’t put the same high price on life as does a Westerner.” Banastre Tarleton stood up in Parliament and defended the slave trade on the grounds that Africans did not object to being slaves. President William McKinley said little brown Filipinos appreciated being conquered and dominated.
→ read full articleWar Is Good for Us, Dumb New Book Claims
David Swanson, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
Ian Morris maintains that the only way to peace is to make large societies, and the way to large societies is through war. From peace prosperity follows and from prosperity flows happiness. Therefore, war creates happiness. But if you want peace, prosperity and joy you must never stop engaging in — you guessed it — war.
→ read full articleChelsea Manning Awarded Sam Adams Integrity Prize for 2014
David Swanson, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2014
16 Jan 2014 – The Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence have voted overwhelmingly to present the 2014 Award to Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning. A Nobel Peace Prize nominee, U.S. Army Pvt. Manning is the 25 year-old intelligence analyst who in 2010 provided to WikiLeaks the “Collateral Murder” video.
→ read full articleSlavery Was Believed Permanent Longer Than War Has Been
David Swanson, War Is A Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
Religion and science and history and economics all purported to prove slavery’s permanence, acceptability, and even desirability. In Ephesians 6:5 St. Paul instructed slaves to obey their earthly masters as they obeyed Christ. And culture, of course, that tries to preserve itself by calling itself “human nature.”
→ read full articleSave the Nobel Peace Prize from Itself
David Swanson, War is a Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2013
On October 11, we’ll learn whether the Norwegian Nobel Committee is interested in reviving the Nobel Peace Prize or putting another nail in its coffin. In March 2012 the Swedish Foundations Authority ordered the Nobel Foundation to examine the will and ensure compliance. The NF defied the order and applied for a permanent exception from such oversight.
→ read full articleBradley Manning Wins Peace Prize
David Swanson, War Is a Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
19 Jul 2013 – U.S. whistleblower and international hero Bradley Manning has just been awarded the 2013 Sean MacBride Peace Award by the International Peace Bureau, itself a former recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, for which Manning is a nominee this year.
→ read full articleLetter from a Drone Protester’s Jail
David Swanson, War Is a Crime – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
15 Feb 2013 – Greetings from the Federal Prison Camp in Yankton, South Dakota! As of this writing, I am two months into a six month sentence imposed due to my protest of war crimes committed by remote control from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri against the people of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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