The Intelligence Community Is Neither
The mainstream media is (once again) telling us we must dutifully accept unevidenced claims from the US intelligence community as gospel truth.
Read MoreDavid Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is director of WorldBeyondWar.org and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org. Swanson's books include War Is A Lie. He blogs at DavidSwanson.org and WarIsACrime.org. He hosts Talk Nation Radio and is a 2015 Nobel Peace Prize nominee. Follow him on Twitter @davidcnswanson and Facebook.
Posted by David Swanson | Jul 19, 2018 | Politics, US, Viewpoints |
The mainstream media is (once again) telling us we must dutifully accept unevidenced claims from the US intelligence community as gospel truth.
Read MorePosted by David Swanson | Jul 10, 2018 | Reviews, US, Viewpoints |
The stories in this book are of the thousands upon thousands who have been punished for refusing to take part in mass murder.
Read MorePosted by David Swanson | Jun 25, 2018 | Politics, US, Viewpoints |
There are three things that are almost always underestimated: the U.S. military budget, altruism, and sadism.
Read MorePosted by David Swanson | Jun 18, 2018 | Reviews, US, Viewpoints |
Book one of the Murder Incorporated series critiques US imperialism, debunking nationalist myths and offering a corrective or alternative history of the US.
Read MorePosted by David Swanson | Jun 14, 2018 | Europe, Politics, Viewpoints |
Sweden is now providing an example of how anti-Russia propaganda threatens peace and liberty while encouraging war profiteers.
Read MorePosted by David Swanson | Jun 13, 2018 | Reviews, US, Viewpoints |
Hersh’s book, like previous work, names names. But this time they’re the names of editors and reporters whose journalism reflects their twisted priorities.
Read MorePosted by David Swanson | Jun 4, 2018 | News & Analysis, Politics, US |
How did we get to the point that the US Executive Branch maintains that the president can pardon himself for his crimes and the Congress goes along with it?
Read MorePosted by David Swanson | May 21, 2018 | Politics, US, Viewpoints |
While the left’s anti-war activism evaporated upon Obama’s election and remains disappointingly absent under Trump, on the brighter side, there are large, well-funded organizations beginning to edge toward opposition at least to certain wars.
Read MorePosted by David Swanson | May 18, 2018 | Politics, US, Viewpoints |
While no peace activists ever claim that peace will help bring the world to a state of war, war activists are constantly claiming that war will produce peace — in fact they’ve been doing so for 100 years now in the face of ever growing evidence to the contrary.
Read MorePosted by David Swanson | May 7, 2018 | Politics, US, Viewpoints |
The Deep State today might have different methods of determining the direction of policy within the US government than it did back in Robert F. Kennedy’s day, but it is even more pervasive now and as intent as ever to convince the public it does not exist.
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