David Swanson

The Plot to Scapegoat Russia

Posted by David Swanson | Jun 21, 2017 | Viewpoints, Politics, US |

The fact that we’re risking nuclear war still seems to me something that we have to go on hoping will matter to someone at some point.

Posted by David Swanson | Jun 21, 2017 | Viewpoints, Politics, US |

We have a role to play in moving the greatest purveyor of violence on earth away from violence. We can’t do so as a 19th-century sect.

Posted by David Swanson | Jun 21, 2017 | Viewpoints, Politics, US |

Let’s build a broad multi-issue movement unifying on the cause of eliminating in its entirety the institution of organized mass murder.

Posted by David Swanson | Jun 9, 2017 | Reviews |

Putin’s views on history and current politics are generally consensus views in Russia, but they will largely be new to U.S. viewers.

Posted by David Swanson | Jun 5, 2017 | Viewpoints, Reviews, US |

The Netflix original film War Machine constitutes the extent of the punishment that the real Stanley McChrystal will ever receive for his crimes.

Posted by David Swanson | Jun 3, 2017 | Viewpoints, Reviews, US |

John Kiriakou’s whistleblowing on the state of US prisons and government’s efforts to silence him is as valuable as his opposition to CIA torture.

We could have a world in which London says to Washington: “You want another war, we won’t help you pretend it’s legal.”

Posted by David Swanson | Mar 29, 2017 | Viewpoints, Politics, US |

Liberals in the United States are relatively educated, yet extremely inarticulate when it comes to Trump, his budget proposal, or the U.S. military.

Questioning whether bombing a place can make it less violent and other assumptions underlining US foreign policy in the Middle East.

Trump and his subordinates are using drone missiles at a faster pace even than Obama did under a program that gives the CIA power to make war.