David Swanson's Blog, page 237
January 14, 2011
Free Bradley Manning on Monday!
There are conflicting accounts of exactly how Bradley Manning, the alleged whistleblower on countless U.S. government crimes, has been illegally punished for 8 months so far, pre-trial. There's no denying that this young man who allegedly sought to make his government's actions known for the public good and did not seek to profit thereby has been denied a speedy trial. The question is to what extent he has already been punished, and even cruelly and unusually punished, without having been convicted of any crime. But the accounts differ less than it at first appears. And there is one sure way to find out the facts.
Why Pentagon Says MLK Would Love War Today
According to the Pentagon's lawyer, Martin Luther King Jr., if alive today, would view the US war on Afghanistan as both the act of a Good Samaritan and as necessary self-defense.
Jeh C. Johnson, the "Defense" Department's general counsel, said, on the one hand:
"I believe that if Dr. King were alive today, he would recognize that we live in a complicated world, and that our nation's military should not and cannot lay down its arms and leave the American people vulnerable to terrorist attack."
On the other hand, he also said this:
January 13, 2011
What Eisenhower Got Wrong
By David Swanson
Fifty years ago this Monday, President Dwight Eisenhower gave a farewell address in which he famously warned of the dangers of influence on our government by the "military industrial complex." Our current Secretary of War, Robert Gates, has proposed to retire this year and has recommended that his successors stop increasing the military budget. But Eisenhower didn't just bring this up on his way out the door. It was seven years earlier that he had remarked:
January 12, 2011
Video: Book Event With Music, Awards, Other Odd Surprises
This was a great event in Baltimore on Monday!
Book Talk with David Swanson (01/10/11) from William Hughes on Vimeo.
January 11, 2011
"War Is A Lie" Book Tour Headed to Wilmington, DE
Sunday, March 20th
2-4 p.m.
Westminster Presbyterian Church
http://www.wpc.org
Pennsylvania Ave. & North Rodney Street
Wilmington, DE
Sponsored by Pacem in Terris
David Swanson will discuss, sell, sign copies of his new book "War Is A Lie"
http://warisalie.org
"David Swanson's War Is A Lie may be the most comprehensive antiwar statement available in the English language." — Kevin Young
"Not since General Smedley Butler's War is a Racket has a simpler, more brilliant, or truer book been published." — Geoffrey Millard
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