Video: Sandy Davies, David Swanson, and Ben Ferencz on Prosecuting War Crimes
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February 2011
Of the Radical and the Quaint
Remarks in Boca Raton, Fla., February 26, 2011
I really want to thank Nancy Parker and everyone who helped put this event together. I would have come just to hear the other two speakers. I’ve learned a lot from Sandy Davies and consider his book required reading for all Americans. And it’s an honor to speak together with Ben Ferencz who has been advancing the rule of law since the age when — more so than not — the United States was a proponent of international justice.
Today’s
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Your 1040 Tax Form Lies to You
Pick up a copy of a 1040EZ US income tax form with all the instructions, particularly pages 36-37. Here are those two pages in a PDF. You’ll discover that the U.S. government only spends 22% of its money on “National defense, veterans, and foreign affairs.” The form admits that you could leave out the “foreign affairs” part and still be at 21%.
However, take a look now at the pie chart created by the War
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From the Capitol in Madison to the Shores of Tripoli
A People’s Hymn
By David Swanson
From the Capitol in Madison
To the shores of Tripoli
We will fight the people’s battles
And we’ll fight them peacefully;
First we learn nonviolent tactics,
And we train before we start.
For our fight will be relentless,
We commit with all our heart.
Our flags unfurl to every breeze
From dawn to setting sun;
We will fight in every clime and place
And we’ll never touch a gun.
In the snow of far-off Northern lands
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Charlottesville–Right Now: David Swanson joins Coy Barefoot to Talk Wisconsin
2.21.11 Best-selling author David Swanson joins Coy to discuss the labor unrest in Wisconsin. Be sure to check out his most recent book War is a Lie.
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Two Events This Saturday 2/26 in Boca Raton, FLA
1. Authors David Swanson and Sandy Davies with Nuremberg War Crimes Prosecutor Ben Ferencz
2. Protest at Bank of America, which takes billions from govt. while you work for a living and pay taxes
1. War Is A Lie and There Is Blood on Our Hands
David Swanson and Nicolas “Sandy” Davies in South Florida on Feb. 26, 2011
Ben Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor from the World War II Nuremberg War Crimes Trials and founding father of the International Criminal Court, will make an important
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Afghans for Wisconsinites
From Afghanistan: We Support the People of Wisconsin and the World
We Afghans Are All Bouazizi
By Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers
Afghan youth are quietly encouraged by the Egyptian uprising because the people of Afghanistan want what the people of Egypt want.
We are all Bouazizi.
We want dignified livelihoods.
Dare any scientist prove to us that 30 years of wars and more to come will successfully bring us decent livelihoods? Dare any human being prove to us that mutual killings somehow bring men and
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Humanitarian War vs. Humanity
The idea that wars are waged out of humanitarian concern may not at first appear even worthy of response. Wars kill humans. What can be humanitarian about that? But look at the sort of rhetoric that successfully sells new wars:
“This conflict started Aug. 2, when the dictator of Iraq invaded a small and helpless neighbor. Kuwait, a member of the Arab League and a member of the United Nations, was crushed, its people brutalized. Five months ago, Saddam Hussein started this cruel war against
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Did Roosevelt's Racism Cause WWII?
That was the argument made in a U.S. bestseller in 2009 written by a WWII historian whose father had raised the US flag on Iwo Jima. And the Roosevelt he had in mind was Teddy, not Franklin.
Needless to say, although countless people will say it quite angrily in my Email inbox in response to this article, you cannot simply blame an event on actions that occurred years before. A war is started by the people who start that war, in that instant, and there is no way for them to wiggle out of that
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