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Latin America’s Second World War
Thursday, 13 September 2018, 4:49 pm | David Swanson
Mary Jo McConahay’s The Tango War is an engaging, extensive, well-researched, well-written account of a topic that still manages to offend me. World War II is sacred history in the United States, the ultimate clash of pure good and evil, the ... More >>
Canadian Leftist Militarism Leaves Decency Behind
Wednesday, 12 September 2018, 10:41 am | David Swanson
If one were to travel north through North America, with the seasons or the change in climate, harvesting crops of patriotic warmongering, the biggest drop in crop yield might come around the Mason Dixon Line, not the Canadian border. More >>
Leave Syria the Hell Alone
Wednesday, 12 September 2018, 10:37 am | David Swanson
Last weekend I was on Iranian TV being asked about the meeting in Tehran at which the presidents of Iran and Russia had refused to agree with the President of Turkey to stop bombing people in Syria. I said Iran and Russia were wrong. More >>
Legalizing Peace Is Far from Simple
Tuesday, 11 September 2018, 10:50 am | David Swanson
As the U.S. government simultaneously threatens the International Criminal Court for even acting as if it might prosecute the United States for crimes in Afghanistan (a topic “investigated” for years now, while the ICC has yet to actually prosecute ... More >>
Celebrate Mass Slaughter on Patriot Day!
Friday, 7 September 2018, 10:28 am | David Swanson
I went in search of anything the United States was number 1 in that it shouldn’t be ashamed of, and came up empty . But I did find that the United States is number 1 in believing it is number 1. So, that’s something. More >>
Four Antiwar Congress Members — Maybe
Wednesday, 5 September 2018, 2:45 pm | David Swanson
While most candidates for Congress have websites completely devoid of any mention of foreign policy whatsoever, Pressley has one with a substantive position on foreign policy. More >>
UVA’s Miller Center Loves Killers
Wednesday, 5 September 2018, 10:35 am | David Swanson
The University of Virginia’s Miller Center caught flak for appointing Trumpian Marc Short, but has now announced the appointment of John Negroponte, presumably hoping for little resistance since Negroponte’s not a Trumpman. More >>
Can the Popularity of Impeachment Matter?
Wednesday, 5 September 2018, 10:30 am | David Swanson
According to an ABC News / WASHINGTON POST poll , 49% of a sampling of the U.S. public wants impeachment begun (they don’t specify when, but presumably any moment now) against Trump, while 43% do not. There are almost certainly millions of additional ... More >>
Virginia’s Fifth District: Hold Your Nose and Stay Home
Friday, 31 August 2018, 9:36 am | David Swanson
Democratic candidates for Congress Rashida Tlaib , Ilhan Omar , and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez all say Americans should have higher living standards, closer to those in other wealthy countries, including guaranteed Medicare for All, better schools, etc. Leslie Cockburn ... More >>
Have an Active Kellogg-Briand Day
Monday, 27 August 2018, 10:39 am | David Swanson
There are a lot of things named Kellogg around here, and few who know why. The two biggest names in the news in 1928 were those of future white supremacist Charles Lindbergh and of Frank Kellogg. One of those names has lasted longer. More >>
2018 Peace Prize Awarded to David Swanson
Monday, 27 August 2018, 10:10 am | David Swanson
At the Veterans For Peace Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, on August 26, 2018, the U.S. Peace Memorial Foundation awarded its 2018 Peace Prize to David Swanson, director of World BEYOND War. More >>
Trump Parade Canceled — Peace Parade Goes Forward
Friday, 17 August 2018, 3:31 pm | David Swanson
A few days after an over-hyped white supremacist rally in Washington, D.C., was massively outnumbered by people opposed to racism, and one day after 187 organizations (more than that now) publicly committed to turning out people to counter Donald Trump’s ... More >>
Ilhan Omar for Peace
Wednesday, 15 August 2018, 3:51 pm | David Swanson
Ilhan Omar is the second person this year to win a Democratic Party nomination for Congress in a Democratic Party district with a platform advocating peace in a way not seen inside the Beltway. The first was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York City, ... More >>
“I Survived Because . . .”
Wednesday, 15 August 2018, 2:19 pm | David Swanson
“I survived because I was walking to a building that was behind a small hill that faced downtown. I was standing in such a way that the building was to my right and the stone garden was to my left. It was my daughter’s wedding day and I was pushing ... More >>
Yemeni Children Matter
Tuesday, 14 August 2018, 3:04 pm | David Swanson
We’ve been given a rare opportunity. While the United States military has slaughtered innocents by the hundreds of thousands in the Middle East over the past couple of decades, almost never have U.S. television viewers seen images of the victims, in ... More >>
Swamp Infrastructure Construction Kinetics
Friday, 3 August 2018, 9:31 am | David Swanson
Now being planned and built in Washington, D.C., which is already just about coated in monuments to wars and particular warriors, are monuments to: World War I, the Gulf War, Native American fighters in wars, African Americans who fought in the U.S. ... More >>
Worldwide Hurricane
Friday, 20 July 2018, 10:27 am | David Swanson
In planning a conference that is coming up in Toronto, I’ve been seeking out stories of peace and justice in Toronto and Canada. Wow are there a lot of them, as well as plenty of war and injustice as well. One of my favorites has got to be the story ... More >>
Pearl Harbor was not Pearl Harbor
Wednesday, 18 July 2018, 3:31 pm | David Swanson
The unproven allegation that the Russian government helped us find out how the DNC was screwing Bernie Sanders with his pants on is not actually a moral, legal, or practical reason to launch a spree of mass-killing of innocents, which is what every ... More >>
The Intelligence Community Is Neither
Wednesday, 18 July 2018, 3:29 pm | David Swanson
At the big “Treason Summit” “Russopocalypse” “Catastrovent” on Monday, journalist Sam Husseini tried to ask a question about banning nuclear weapons, and was physically hauled out of the room by officials from the “Land of Press Freedom,” ... More >>
The Limits of Empathy
Friday, 13 July 2018, 9:11 am | David Swanson
Paul Bloom’s book Against Empathy was bound to be either advocacy for cruelty and sadism, or a horribly misguided attempt to improve the world, or false advertising (it would turn out he’s only against the most narrowly or bizarrely defined concept ... More >>
