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David Swanson is the Washington Director of Democrats.com and of ImpeachPAC.org. He is co-founder of the AfterDowningStreet.org coalition, creator of MeetWithCindy.org, and a board member of Progressive Democrats of America, and of the Backbone Campaign. He was the organizer in 2006 of Camp Democracy. He serves on the steering committee of the Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice and on a working group of United for Peace and Justice.

He has worked as a newspaper reporter and as a communications director, with jobs including Press Secretary for Dennis Kucinich's 2004 presidential campaign, Media Coordinator for the International Labor Communications Association, and three years as Communications Coordinator for ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. Swanson serves on the Executive Council of the Washington Baltimore Newspaper Guild. He obtained a Master's degree in philosophy from the University of Virginia in 1997. His website is www.davidswanson.org.

Articles

DateTitleHits
01/24/2010 10:25:00Vancouver - Liquid City156
09/12/2009 06:30:53Go Inland, Young Progressives367
04/29/2009 22:07:00The International Criminal Court and A Rogue Empire668
03/03/2009 08:47:10Power Shift in the Air712
01/15/2009 00:26:35Against Truth, Reconciliation, and Commissions 640
12/29/2008 08:34:29Did Bush Sr. Kill Kennedy and Frame Nixon? 782
12/21/2008 11:34:09Ghosts of Iraq Sentencing Statement 761
12/20/2008 18:26:02How History Will View Bush 790
12/08/2008 08:44:19Unlimited Pardon Power and Five Other Impossible Things Before Breakfast 696
09/30/2008 12:26:26Why the Bailout Vote May Fail1227
01/20/2008 13:51:41A Solution for the Peace Movement1619
01/03/2008 11:36:02Dear Iowa, Vote for Dennis But Don't Listen to Him1797
12/31/2007 22:21:35Death By Election1661
12/19/2007 12:29:21Italians Block Construction of U.S. Base1764
12/07/2007 01:23:17Enough Heroes to Fill a Book (Book Review by David Swanson)4393
11/21/2007 11:54:04Pelosi, Cheney, and the Fertilized Eggs1965
10/16/2007 13:20:27War Lies Investigation: Rockefeller Claims He'll Get to It Someday2008
10/12/2007 12:09:55Three Stooges Go to Washington1891
09/26/2007 23:02:34Staying in Iraq - Heading into Iran1878
09/24/2007 15:12:00We have nothing to fear but fear itself2059
09/19/2007 22:31:05Worlds Apart1751
09/10/2007 16:26:29The Obama-Edwards Ticket1984
09/10/2007 12:49:15Betray Us Report1922
09/04/2007 11:45:52World War III2953
08/29/2007 22:49:20BREAKING NEWS: Cheney Denies Being Human2637
08/29/2007 08:48:04Rep. Conyers' Latest on Impeachment2196
08/29/2007 08:42:10Report: US Has Prepared to Attack Iran2247
08/13/2007 00:09:48It Really Is a Democratic Congress2248
08/11/2007 10:39:37Resistance of One2403
08/10/2007 00:09:11Commenting on the Black Commentator2640
08/06/2007 18:09:52Six Judiciary Committee Members for Impeachment - Forty-five Congress Members now stand in one manner or another for impeachment.2836
08/02/2007 20:38:5634 Congress Members for Impeachment2304
08/01/2007 13:08:17300 Towns, Cities, States Oppose Iraq Occupation2170
08/01/2007 13:02:11People's Peace Delegation to Iran Reports Back1820
07/29/2007 16:52:24Bush Fulfills His Grandfather's Dream6249
07/28/2007 02:14:53Another Congress Member Backs Impeachment2579
07/23/2007 15:07:34Remembering the Downing Street Minutes2022
07/23/2007 14:57:25 Conyers: 3 More Congress Members and I'll Impeach2202
07/18/2007 13:48:49NIE: Normalizing Idiocy and Exaggeration2623
07/11/2007 14:48:16Bush Promised to Kiss Blair's Ass2218
07/02/2007 09:59:15Impeachment in Kennebunkport2846
07/02/2007 09:05:06New NSA Whistleblower Speaks4073
06/30/2007 10:23:4811 Congress Members for Impeaching Cheney2954
06/29/2007 11:35:00Peace Movement Comes to US Social Forum5820
06/23/2007 10:30:13Cynicism and Generosity Toward Congress2390
06/20/2007 12:08:40Rep. Waters: Republicans Dead in Water, Put Our Feet on Their Necks and Drown Them2044
06/19/2007 14:38:52We've Started Taking Back America2178
06/14/2007 20:01:08Obama Says He'll Use Force Unilaterally to Protect "Vital Interests"2151
06/12/2007 15:58:00Sen. Clinton Wants Troops in Iraq for at Least 10 Years2824
06/12/2007 10:11:45Father's Day, Peace, and Masculinity2273
06/10/2007 15:38:25War Opposition Made Easy2506
06/08/2007 15:04:27Rep. Jerrold Nadler: President and Attorney General are engaged in a criminal conspiracy2292
06/07/2007 11:17:53Better Than Calling Congress to End the War - Contact the Iraqi Government2462
06/01/2007 11:29:46 Rep. John Conyers Backs Impeachment4082
05/30/2007 12:21:31Rep. John Conyers Backs Impeachment2268
05/30/2007 12:16:5611 State Legislatures Take Up Impeachment2370
05/29/2007 17:19:52Is Our Peace Activists Learning?2098
05/29/2007 16:30:28New Senate Report Is Worst Betrayal Yet2880
05/24/2007 09:37:13Of Congressional Surrender - Dick Cheney and Jim Wright Saved Reagan: What Can Cheney and Nancy Pelosi Do for Bush?2901
05/24/2007 09:17:16From the Whales Learn This Lesson2063
05/21/2007 18:46:0713 State Democratic Parties Demand Impeachment3321
05/19/2007 10:30:44What Do These Crimes Have in Common?2041
05/18/2007 15:12:3424 Organizations Ask Pelosi and Reid to Leave Iraq Its Oil2466
05/18/2007 11:29:52It's Year Five, Do You Know Where Your Senators Are?2687
05/16/2007 08:48:23Agnew v. Cheney - How Did the Good Guys Finally Win?2699
05/15/2007 10:06:52For Five Years We've Called It Blood for Oil2873
05/15/2007 09:40:13They're Not Benchmarks2356
05/10/2007 21:22:46HOUSE VOTES ON WAR TODAY2838
05/10/2007 12:49:25Exclusive: Rep. Maxine Waters Speaks Out for Impeachment2666
05/05/2007 13:20:55Anti-U.S. Uproar Sweeps Italy2374
04/24/2007 11:27:02Record of Iraq War Lies to Air This Wednesday, April 25, on PBS3209
04/23/2007 22:38:38War Money in a Frame2468
04/19/2007 12:56:52Another Path to Peace: The Case for Kucinich2045
03/30/2007 10:40:04A Veto Is a Vote for Eternal War2128
03/29/2007 15:17:47You Are One2355
03/28/2007 10:35:03How's the Progressive Caucus Progressing?1890
03/27/2007 14:38:55Let Rove Lie1986
03/24/2007 12:17:37MoveOn.org Versus Its Members1905
03/24/2007 11:57:05Eight Heroes in Congress Make a Stand for Peace2153
03/24/2007 11:23:04A Measure of Morality in Congress2178
03/20/2007 13:10:26The Country Rallies Against the Supplemental1926
03/14/2007 11:42:17What If the FBI Hired Someone Honest to Look Into 9—11?3546
03/12/2007 10:01:56On David Sirota, David Obey, and "Idiot Liberals," Never Mind Ending the War2436
03/11/2007 00:06:45What's Wrong With David Obey2447
03/09/2007 23:20:58Subpoena Dick Cheney2860
03/09/2007 09:54:57The War Money Can Be Stopped2472
03/07/2007 10:39:44Iran in Congress's Sights2638
03/05/2007 13:05:48Former Pentagon Staff Speaks Out on Crimes of Doug Feith, Dick Cheney, and Planning of Iran War2707
03/02/2007 23:52:31The Employee Free Fire Zone Act2251
03/01/2007 10:10:38Testimony for Impeachment Hearing2776
03/01/2007 09:52:41Only Nonviolence Will End The War2697
02/27/2007 13:52:32Cindy Sheehan, George Will, and Loving Your Enemies2306
02/23/2007 15:42:07Peace Activists Just Threw Out a Prime Minister: Too Bad It Was Italy's3178
02/22/2007 18:54:02Impeach07 Campaign Launched2576
02/20/2007 22:36:39The Fierce Urgency of Impeachment2233
02/18/2007 17:22:41Conyers and the Impeachment Table2346
02/16/2007 21:37:34Murtha Only Intends to Undo the Escalation2198
02/14/2007 20:06:35Shut Up And Stop The War2533
02/14/2007 19:40:05Iran War Talking Points2695
02/11/2007 21:49:00Iran Lies2215
02/10/2007 12:23:00Truth Exposed by Senate Armed Services HearingTruth Exposed by Senate Armed Services Hearing2658
02/09/2007 17:25:28Dems Change the Gas and Claim It's a New Car2218
01/31/2007 21:57:52The Bills That Can End the War2112
01/27/2007 11:17:45Don't Let Dick Cheney Get Me!2458
01/27/2007 11:00:31Bush's Four Anti-Terror Successes All Fictional3652
01/24/2007 11:19:48PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS JOIN ANTIWAR MARCH AND LOBBY DAY IN D.C.3231
01/22/2007 17:36:19How We Can End the Occupation of Iraq2779
01/21/2007 12:01:28It All Started with an American Taliban2653
01/19/2007 02:04:57Follow Pelosi or Follower Pelosi?2662
01/17/2007 23:38:24MASSIVE ANTI-WAR MARCH PLANNED FOR JAN. 27 IN D.C. - PROTESTERS WILL URGE CONGRESS TO STAND UP TO BUSH3245
01/15/2007 09:58:15If Beal Street Could Talk – Part 1 - Bush's Escalation Speech2946
01/13/2007 01:51:17Land of Enchantment and Impeachment3896
01/11/2007 11:56:24Why do We Need a National Conference for Media Reform?2988
01/10/2007 15:58:03Mr. President, Surge This2699
01/07/2007 18:48:04Videos from Thursday's Impeachment Forum at the National Press Club and Rally at the Capitol3820
01/06/2007 13:01:58Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney Makes the Case for Impeachment5077
01/04/2007 18:52:43Democrats' Open-Mic Press Conferences2594
01/04/2007 18:45:28International Delegation Travels to Guantanamo, Cuba to Protest Infamous US4160
01/03/2007 04:36:59BUSH MUST GO! Demonstration at Opening of Congress "If War Crimes, Torture, and Crimes Against Humanity are not Reason to Impeach, What is?"3619
12/31/2006 21:10:17The Ethics of Palestinian Resistance2443
12/27/2006 16:05:42New Year's Utopianism Needed Fast2167
12/14/2006 19:19:57How to Spend the War Money3146
12/09/2006 09:04:28McKinney, Smith, Bush, and Impeachment3376
12/08/2006 08:44:07The Best Reasons Not to Impeach, And Why They're Wrong3395
12/07/2006 03:04:41Rallies for Impeachment Coast to Coast This Sunday3959
12/06/2006 15:05:10Live Blogging from Gates Hearing2848
12/04/2006 07:14:29Honesty in Iraq2565
11/30/2006 11:47:40Closer to Home2846
11/29/2006 08:12:00Be All That You Can Be: Leave the Army2909
11/23/2006 09:15:52The Melbourne Minutes: New Downing Street Memos from Down Under4070
11/22/2006 14:44:48U.S. v. Bush3209

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