Antiwar Radio Podcast Transcript: Scott Horton Interviews David Swanson, November 24, 2010
SCOTT HORTON: All right, y’all, welcome back to the show. It’s Antiwar Radio. We’re at Antiwar.com/radio, KaosRadioAustin.org, and at LRN.fm. All right, next guest on the show is David Swanson. He’s the author of Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union, and the new one is called War is a Lie, just out on October
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By David Swanson
Here’s an easy question: would you rather go to jail for a few hours with a bunch of friends or die?
Here’s a poorly kept secret: the wars that a majority of Americans want ended are not ending, and the war machine that a majority of Americans want cut back is growing.
Here’s a situation that is not secret at all but too horrifying for us to acknowledge: if the war machine continues on its current course, we will not survive it economically, environmentally, or
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Swanson the War Myth-Buster
by Ralph Lopez
Since Helen of Troy many people have suspected that most purported reasons for war are really just the excuse, and that wars are rarely fought for the reasons stated. In “War is a Lie” David Swanson carves himself a monumental task: to prove the truth of this in every historical instance for which background is available. He accomplishes his task, with a weight of evidence which can only be described as
Scott Horton Interviews David Swanson
David Swanson, author of War is a Lie, discusses the lies routinely made before, during and after a war; how FDR provoked and allowed the Pearl Harbor attack out of desperation to get the US into WWII; the contradictory
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From BradBlog
(Each "Hour" actually 38 mins, now that commercials are removed.)
HOUR 1: The show started out light enough, with a bunch of wacky news. Then David Swanson joined us Don't miss this really interesting — and undoubtedly, controversial, discussion!…
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HOUR 2: Swanson stays with us for another two segments. Then, new revelations from Germany about
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Robert Kuttner on the deficit obsession; David Swanson on 'War is a Lie.'
CounterSpin (11/26/10-12/2/10)
Also on CounterSpin today: War is a lie. That's the title of activist and writer David Swanson's new book, which takes a sweeping look at the lies we're told—and we tell ourselves—about American wars. And of course many of those lies are transmitted by a corporate media eager to support
David Swanson writes in a guest column for Informed Comment
The Neoconservatives, despite wandering in the wilderness after their Iraq debacle, are trying to keep the dream of serial wars in the Middle East alive. Freedom Watch and the Foundation for Democracy in Iran sponsored a National Press Club event on November 17, in which former CIA director James Woolsey, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, and former UN ambassador Alan Keyes demanded war on Iran.
There’s little reason to believe that
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