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Things Congress Could Do for Peace, From Easiest to Hardest
Saturday, 19 January 2019, 11:03 am | David Swanson
By David Swanson http://davidswanson.org/things-congress-could-do-for-peace-from-easiest-to-hardest/ More >>
The World Will End in Fire
Wednesday, 16 January 2019, 3:00 pm | David Swanson
Proclaiming that the end is nigh has now become the labor of the very opposite of a deluded religious devotee. And the question framed by Robert Frost of whether the world will end in fire or ice is no longer in dispute. The world will soon end in ... More >>
Top 10 Reasons Not to Love NATO
Wednesday, 16 January 2019, 2:51 pm | David Swanson
Judging by comments in social media and the real world, millions of people in the United States have gone from having little or no opinion on NATO, or from opposing NATO as the world’s biggest military force responsible for disastrous wars in places ... More >>
Trump Declares Himself a National Emergency
Saturday, 12 January 2019, 10:59 am | David Swanson
As a dedicated peace activist, I believe Trump needs to be removed from office immediately. More >>
A Green New PayGo Shutdown
Sunday, 6 January 2019, 3:56 pm | David Swanson
“She’ll cut your head off.” That’s Nancy Pelosi’s daughter’s praise for her mother. More >>
Corrupt Spineless Iraqi Legislators Are Right
Saturday, 29 December 2018, 10:35 am | David Swanson
You’ve got 5,000 armed foreign troops stationed in your country. You don’t say a word until the idiot foreign emperor stages a surprise visit. Then you’re outraged principally because he didn’t notify you or meet with you or put up any pretense ... More >>
And So This Is Christmas
Thursday, 20 December 2018, 12:49 pm | David Swanson
Christmas Day. Very late on this day and into the morning of the 26th in 1776, George Washington led a surprise night crossing of the Delaware River and bloody pre-dawn attack on unarmed hung-over-from-Christmas troops still in their underwear — a ... More >>
The Ancient Mythical Rites of Pearl Harbor Day
Thursday, 6 December 2018, 10:19 am | David Swanson
Last week I spoke at a high school. As I often do, I told them I’d perform a magic trick. I only know one, but I know it will almost always work with no skill required. I scribbled on a piece of paper and folded it up. I asked someone to name a war that ... More >>
Earth Over the Brink
Wednesday, 5 December 2018, 3:42 pm | David Swanson
People and companies and governments are cutting down trees to burn them to save the planet from global warming, mixing the sacrificial trees with oh-so-clean coal, and in Detroit with tires, and in North Carolina with chicken shit. More >>
Are Genes Pseudo-Science Driven by Plutocrats?
Tuesday, 4 December 2018, 1:10 pm | David Swanson
Are Genes Pseudo-Science Driven by Racist Patriarchal Plutocrats? By David Swanson http://davidswanson.org/are-genes-pseudo-science-driven-by-racist-patriarchal-plutocrats/ More >>
Yemen, Poisoned Water, and a Green New Deal
Monday, 3 December 2018, 10:04 am | David Swanson
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, December 2, 2018 https://worldbeyondwar.org/yemen-poisoned-water-and-a-green-new-deal/ More >>
Regulating Apocalypse
Tuesday, 30 October 2018, 9:24 am | David Swanson
“Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good!” “Don’t be such a purist!” “Be strategic!” “Do what’s possible!” “You can’t deny reality / human nature / religious text.” More >>
Classical Conditioning for Peace
Tuesday, 23 October 2018, 9:22 am | David Swanson
According to the analysis of police-murder-instigator Dave Grossman , the reason that only a minority of soldiers attempted to kill in World War II and earlier wars was a general aversion to committing murder. And the reason that the vast majority ... More >>
Humanitarian Bombs
Monday, 15 October 2018, 9:56 am | David Swanson
One should not sell bombs to a government that abuses human rights, which means murders a man without using one of the bombs. More >>
Is War Alcohol?
Tuesday, 2 October 2018, 8:59 am | David Swanson
War is a self-perpetuating habit that harms its users and can provide a certain momentary high. At a peace conference in Canada recently I heard a number of people refer to themselves as “recovering Americans.” The degree to which many people imagine ... More >>
What If Governments Obeyed Laws?
Wednesday, 19 September 2018, 10:16 am | David Swanson
The United States has an ancient Constitution. It doesn’t ban slavery as punishment. It doesn’t ban bribery as campaign funding. It doesn’t protect the natural world. It doesn’t guarantee basic human rights to food, shelter, education, healthcare. ... More >>
Neil deGrasse Tyson and the Weakness of Science
Wednesday, 19 September 2018, 10:15 am | David Swanson
In a recent interview on National Pentagon Radio , Neil deGrasse Tyson discussed the interactions between (1) the U.S. military and (2) astrophysics. The former is an enterprise that I consider evil and Tyson seems to consider mildly worthy of discomfort ... More >>
Stop Killing and Dying in Afghanistan
Tuesday, 18 September 2018, 2:47 pm | David Swanson
By David Swanson http://davidswanson.org/stop-killing-and-dying-in-afghanistan-now-more-than-ever/ More >>
Health Professionals Tackle War
Tuesday, 18 September 2018, 11:05 am | David Swanson
When I discovered that militarism is one of the top destroyers of the natural environment, I piled that onto my case against war. I did the same when I found out war wasted more money than anything else, was a major promoter of bigotry and racism, was the ... More >>
Giving Resistance a Good Name
Monday, 17 September 2018, 11:19 am | David Swanson
It’s popular to refer to the political line of a major corporate party in the United States as something like “the resistance” when the other of the two parties is on the throne of what both parties have, over many decades, actively converted ... More >>
