Stories by David Swanson

A look inside Trevor Aaronson's book "The Terror Factory" about the FBI's terrorist plots.

NBC is promoting "Stars Earn Stripes" during its Summer Olympics telecast as the next big sporting event. But the sport it's exhibiting is war.

A new fiction book debunks the notion that Ayn Randian "free-market" trickle-down crapitalism can coexist with basic human decency.

Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday explained why he thinks it is legal to murder people, even without trial, arrest, or charges filed.

AIPAC raises its money in the United States but advances the agenda of a foreign nation.

Obama seems eager to be liked by the Chamber. But at whose expense?

Will the GOP's plan to block everything the President does stop at war funding?

Obama has gone further than Bush in claiming the powers to spy without warrant, imprison without charge, torture, assassinate, occupy and operate in unprecedented secrecy.

Assassinating non-Americans is just as illegal as assassinating Americans. The leap here is not to victims of a different citizenship but to the legalization of murder.

In his new book, Daybreak, Swanson warns that Cheney radically transformed the role of the vice president into an unaccountable, dangerous seat of power.

Is irony even the word for this? As soon as people vote online to push Obama to talk about empire, it's quietly removed from the list.

For starters, Democratic leadership could persuade enough Democrats to vote to pass it without a single Republican, if they chose to.

Bringing Karl Rove to justice for ignoring House requests to talk about the firing of several U.S. attorneys could be just the beginning.

This week marks the climax of its most ferocious crusade to remove him from Congress.

10 things to remember about voting in primary elections.

David Swanson: A new report concludes that the U.S. has made major preparations to attack Iran, and that it will likely target much more than just weapons or nuclear facilities.

Attorney General Gonzales' testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee was a case lesson in obfuscation, and not even Republican senators were buying it.

Reporters from the <i>New York Times</i> and others are trying to convince us that this time around, we can trust the U.S. intelligence community's evidence of Iran's bad intentions, but where is the evidence?

With a military badly in need of reform and a war based on lies, desertion is an act of bravery.