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Military Conscription Worldwide
Thursday, 23 July 2015, 8:55 am | David Swanson
By CJ Hinke, World Beyond War http://worldbeyondwar.org/military-conscription-worldwide/ Excerpted from Free Radicals: War Resisters in Prison by CJ Hinke, forthcoming from Trine-Day in 2016. More >>
Panem et Presidential Elections
Wednesday, 22 July 2015, 8:30 pm | David Swanson
I know you like the elephants and the acrobats, but we really do not have time for this. More >>
War Acceptance 101
Wednesday, 22 July 2015, 8:25 pm | David Swanson
Behind John Rawls' veil of ignorance, an American ethics professor would imagine himself or herself choosing a society of wonderful economic and social justice, unheard of equality and liberty, and the "right" to "defend" itself through ... More >>
Yall Are Talking About War Wrong
Tuesday, 21 July 2015, 1:15 pm | David Swanson
Former head of the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Lt. General Michael Flynn has joined the ranks of the many recently retired officials openly admitting that what the U.S. military does generates dangers rather than reducing them. (Flynn ... More >>
Desertion: A Long, Proud History
Tuesday, 21 July 2015, 1:05 pm | David Swanson
There are as many reasons to desert military service as there are deserters. All countries’ militaries like to snatch young men when they are uneducated, inexperienced, and unemployed. It takes a soldier far greater courage to throw down his weapon than ... More >>
Actually There Is One Problem That's Solved by Starting Wars
Tuesday, 21 July 2015, 1:02 pm | David Swanson
Walter Kloefkorn tells me a story from 24 years ago: "Near the end of my Silicon Valley career in manufacturing I was Materials Director for Biomation Corp, which made logic analyzers. (We may still have been a subsidiary of Gould Inc - some other ... More >>
NBC Dares Mention Climate in Spread of Lyme Disease
Saturday, 18 July 2015, 11:46 am | David Swanson
NBC Dares Mention Climate in Spread of Lyme Disease, But Not Who Created Lyme Disease More >>
AIPAC: Anti-Iranian Propaganda at Congress
Saturday, 18 July 2015, 11:19 am | David Swanson
Except when lobbying for ever greater sanctions that would have blocked the negotiations, and even for a US commitment to jump into any Israeli-Iranian war. Here's a brief history in the form of activist opposition to AIPAC. More >>
ISIS Crisis Exegesis
Thursday, 16 July 2015, 2:45 pm | David Swanson
Talking with Iran has made the war profiteers and their servants sad and the rest of the world happy. Perhaps the novel idea of negotiating rather than killing will be carried over to several other parts of the world. Mainstream corporate voices ... More >>
What Are Foreign Military Bases For?
Thursday, 16 July 2015, 2:32 pm | David Swanson
If you're like most people in the United States, you have a vague awareness that the U.S. military keeps lots of troops permanently stationed on foreign bases around the world. But have you ever wondered and really investigated to find out how many, ... More >>
Read Mumia
Sunday, 12 July 2015, 11:44 am | David Swanson
Yes, I also want to say Free Mumia. In fact, I want to say Free all the prisoners. Turn the prison holding Mumia Abu-Jamal into a school and make him dean. And if you won't free all the prisoners, free one who has been punished to a level that ought ... More >>
Iraqi Voices Are Screaming from Far Away
Saturday, 11 July 2015, 12:30 pm | David Swanson
Iraqis were attempting the nonviolent overthrow of their dictator prior to his violent overthrow by the United States in 2003. When U.S. troops began to ease up on their liberating and democracy-spreading in 2008, and during the Arab Spring of 2011 and ... More >>
Peace Lessons
Friday, 10 July 2015, 11:28 am | David Swanson
I just read what may be the best introduction to peace studies I’ve ever seen. It’s called Peace Lessons, and is a new book by Timothy Braatz. It’s not too fast or too slow, neither obscure nor boring. It does not drive the reader away from ... More >>
The 51-Day Genocide
Wednesday, 8 July 2015, 3:00 pm | David Swanson
Max Blumenthal's latest book, The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza, tells a powerful story powerfully well. I can think of a few other terms that accurately characterize the 2014 Israeli assault on Gaza in addition to "war," among them: occupation, ... More >>
Killing Crabs and Arabs
Tuesday, 7 July 2015, 3:40 pm | David Swanson
I lead a sheltered life. Apart from visiting Afghanistan once during a war, the closest I come to danger is in sports, and the closest I come to violence is in emailed death threats from war fanatics -- and even those pretty much dried up when the president ... More >>
How to Stop the TPP
Monday, 29 June 2015, 11:55 am | David Swanson
The House and Senate have rammed through Fast Track. More >>
Human Experimentation: a CIA Habit
Tuesday, 16 June 2015, 10:51 am | David Swanson
The Guardian on Monday made public a CIA document allowing the agency's director to "approve, modify, or disapprove all proposals pertaining to human subject research." More >>
Pentagon Admits that War is Illegal
Sunday, 14 June 2015, 10:41 am | David Swanson
The Pentagon has just published 1,204 pages on how it thinks you can behave legally during a war. Looking through this "Law of War Manual" at various hot topics, one finds some atrocities excused as acceptable (cluster bombs, nuclear bombs) and ... More >>
The Last Jeb Killed for Slavery The Last Bush Killed for Oil
Saturday, 13 June 2015, 10:57 am | David Swanson
Presidential elections should be limited to as short a time period as possible and are generally the biggest drain and distraction going. I have two excuses for looking into Jeb Bush. One is that I've been collecting the evidence that Hillary cannot ... More >>
Que Pasa, New York?
Saturday, 30 May 2015, 12:43 pm | David Swanson
The Nation magazine recently republished an old column by Jean Paul Sartre in which he described the myths he had been told about Americans by American culture, and compared those with what he observed. He was supposed to see eternal happiness, but ... More >>
