The Solution Zone - 12/02/10

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Guest: Author David Swanson

Swanson’s New book War is a Lie and Upcoming White House War Protest:

Author and blogger David Swanson (www.warisacrime.org) discusses the upcoming Dec. 16 White House war protest sponsored by Veterans for Peace, which may invlove civil disobedience, and his newly released book WAR IS A LIE.

Veterans for Peace: – Stop These Wars: Washington War Protest: Dec. 16th - http://www.stopthesewars.org/

Veterans for Peace members will be participating in the civil resistance event outside the White House December 16 that will bring together several military activist veterans, peace groups and invidudals including, Daniel Ellsberg, Medea Benjamin, Ray McGovern to protest the endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Follwing the rally in Lafayette Park, many will attempt to chain themselves to the fence outside the White House in protest.

Book: War is a Lie www.amazon.com/War-Lie-David-Swanson/dp/0983083002

In his latest book War is a Lie, author David Swanson’s unmasks the true nature of war and sets out to expose, in painstakingly documented incidences, the propaganda, government lies, and long embraced myths that have regularly been used to justify all wars for which historical records exist.

David Swanson lays forth a convincing moral argument that war is an institution that serves no purpose except to benefit the powerful interests who profit financially and politically from waging it.