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“Climate change is so unimaginable that most Americans deny it's happening.”

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David Swanson is an active blogger born in 1969. He is known for his in-depth analysis and commentary on political and social issues, particularly focusing on the peace movement and civil rights. Swanson's work is characterized by a strong moral stance, advocating for nonviolent protest and democratic participation. more

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“Let's be realistic, every terrorist came to Syria, he came through Turkey with the support of [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan. So, fighting those terrorists is like fighting the army of Erdogan, not the Turkish army, the army of Erdogan.”

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“California, like anywhere else on Earth, should have the right to secede whether the United States likes it or not. The preferences of the other 49 states and Washington DC is not relevant. That was the position of the United States government on Yugoslavia and other places around the world but not on Ukraine. However, morality and the law as I understand it are that any people should have the right to leave, just as explained in the initial words of the US Declaration of Independence.”

“Breaking the United States up into a number of pieces could be very good for the integration of those new nations with the rest of the world and the international law whose primary enemy is now the United States government. I think that it would be very good for democracy, for people to be within some hundreds of miles of their nation's capital, as they are in many other countries, so that they didn't have to travel thousands of miles to protest, to exercise their First Amendment rights, but that is the current state of affairs in this overly large, imperial nation.”

“The Pentagon is supposed to be under civilian control and it ought to be up to the people of the United States, not the profiteers.”

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Author:David Swanson

“Whether [Turkey] is a NATO country or not, it doesn't have the right to invade any other country according to the international law or to any other moral value.”

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Author:Bashar al-Assad

“Many militarists would like to see California's votes vanish from the national electoral system, which would then become more Republican.”

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Author:David Swanson

“The United States has been becoming worse year after year after year for decades, and it's guaranteed to continue down that path if we don't change something.”

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Author:David Swanson

“We don't have a lot of expectations [for Donald J. Trump] because the American administration is not only about the President; it's about different powers within this administration, the different lobbies that they are going to influence any President.”

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Author:Bashar al-Assad

“I'm not convinced that the people of Arizona as a nation couldn't do better to protect equal rights for all than the people of Arizona as part of the United States, which is actually not helping them much.”

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Author:David Swanson

“We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy