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January 10, 2011
January 9, 2011
See You in Baltimore on Monday!
Here's a poster/flyer: PDF
David Swanson to Discuss, Sign Copies of "War Is A Lie" in Baltimore, Md.
January 10, 2011
7:00 p.m.
Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins Bookstore
3330 St. Paul Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
(410) 662-5850
CONTACT info at chesapeakecitizens.org
Special guests:
Andy Worthington, author of "Guantanamo Files"
Debra Sweet, director of The World Can't Wait
Cindy Sheehan, the Peace Mom
and other surprises!
Cosponsors:
Pledge of Resistance Baltimore
Chesapeake Citizens
Voters for Peace
Progressive Democrats of America/Maryland
Generations for Peace and Democracy
Indypendent Reader
"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
"David Swanson despises war and lying, and unmasks them both with rare intelligence. I learn something new on every page." — Jeff Cohen
January 7, 2011
An Interview with David Swanson, author of "War is A Lie."
David Swanson is co-founder of WarIsACrime.org, and was instrumental in exposing the Downing Street Minutes. He is also the author of "Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union."
David will be discussing and signing the book, and will be joined by Andy Worthington, author of "The Guantanamo Files," Debra Sweet, and Cindy Sheehan, at the JHU Barnes and Noble Bookstore, 3300 St. Paul Street in Baltimore, at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, January 10th.
Aimee Pohl from the Indypendent Reader asked Swanson about the next war, "the good war," and where the anti-war movement is headed.
January 6, 2011
January 5, 2011
Audio: Marc Steiner and David Swanson on War Lies
Synopsis:
Interview with writer and political activist David Swanson
David Swanson joins us to discuss his new book War Is A Lie. He is also the author of Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union and blogs at davidswanson.org and warisacrime.org.
David will be speaking at Barnes & Noble at 3330 St. Paul Street in Baltimore Monday January 10th at 7pm. Click here for more details.
David Swanson and Bruce Fein to Discuss the Imperial Presidency at the Virginia Festival of the Book
"The Rise of the Imperial Presidency"
David Swanson and Bruce Fein, with John Whitehead moderating
Thursday, March 17, 2011, at 12 pm, EST, in City Council chambers, Charlottesville, Va.
Part of the Virginia Festival of the Book
This panel will discuss the rise of the imperial presidency, the expanding US military empire, the rise of the surveillance state, and their implications for the civil liberties and freedoms of American citizens.
January 4, 2011
Signing Statements More Dangerous Than Guantanamo
When George W. Bush was president, everybody to the left of Karl Rove was offended by his signing-statements in which he announced his intention to violate laws as he signed them into law. Congressman John Conyers held one of his countless and toothless hearings, heard all about it, and went home self-satisfied.
Many of us warned that if the next president did the same thing it would be considered legal, even if blatantly unconstitutional. Then Obama did it. Even Republicans acted vaguely annoyed. Then Obama did worse. The congressional response was almost undetectable.
