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2013/07/292013/07/29

David Swanson: [17] European Parliamentarians Call for Bradley Manning’s Freedom, Condemn Equating Revelation of War Crimes with “Aiding the Enemy”

European Parliamentarians Call for Bradley Manning’s Freedom Seventeen Members of European Parliament have written a letter calling on U.S. President Barack Obama and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to free WikiLeaks whistle-blower Army Pfc. Bradley Manning. The MEPs laud Manning for exposing “evidence of human rights abuses and apparent war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan” in accordance with …

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2013/07/242013/07/24

David Swanson: Cost of Compensated Emancipation versus War Over Slavery

What Slavery Cost As I head off to a rally for Trayvon Martin, I notice a column by Bob Koehler in which he says the unpaid work of slaves in the United States is now estimated at $1.4 trillion. Oddly, that’s not terribly far from the $1.2 trillion or so, possibly more now, that …

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2013/07/22

David Swanson: Deep Dissection of Trans-Pacific Partnership — The Most Evil Reprehensible Impeachable Act To Come Out of Washington in Recent Memory

TPP: The Terrible Plutocratic Plan By David Swanson Remarks July 21, 2013 at an Occupy Harrisonburg (Va.) Event. Make your voice heard here. Thanks to Michael Feikema and Doug Hendren for inviting me. Like most of you I do not spend my life studying trade agreements, but the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is disturbing enough to …

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2013/07/192013/07/19

David Swanson: Bradley Manning Wins Sean MacBride Peace Award — Manning Also Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Manning Wins Peace Prize 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. A petition supporting Manning for the Nobel Peace Prize has gathered 88,000 …

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2013/07/03

David Swanson: PSYOP on US Population – War is Good?

In Washington Dulles airport I noticed a large advertisement. I’d seen it before and not paid attention. (No doubt that’s why they saturate public space with the things.) It showed a woman’s face with the words: “A car crash in California almost took her leg. A bomb blast in Iraq helped save it.” It directed …

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2013/06/282013/06/28

David Swanson: A Manifesto on the Fraudulent Sequester and “Optional” Laws

Sequester Optionally Applied Only to Good Things Spending cuts have been applied by Congress to both military and non-military spending. In my view, the military cuts are much too small and the non-military cuts should not exist at all. In the view of most liberal organizations, the military cuts — like the military spending …

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2013/06/232013/06/23

David Swanson: A Global Rescue Plan Within Our Means, in the Public Interest

A Global Rescue Plan When the wealthy nations of the world meet as the G8 or in any other gathering, it’s interesting to imagine what they would do if they followed the golden rule, valued grandchildren, disliked unnecessary suffering, or wished to outgrow ancient forms of barbarism, or any combination of those. The United States …

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