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Feel Like NPR Is Spewing Corrupt Propaganda? Here’s Why.
Wednesday, 10 November 2021, 9:20 am | David Swanson
NPR posted a story called “ Feel like you don’t fit in either political party? Here’s why .” Of course I knew why. Neither party supports anything remotely close to my views on government budgets, climate, environment, taxation, militarism, ... More >>
US Peace Prize Awarded To World BEYOND War
Friday, 5 November 2021, 3:50 pm | David Swanson
By US Peace Memorial Foundation <img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2111/f14cd22f114d905881d2.jpeg" width="589" height="720"> The 2021 US Peace Prize has been awarded to World BEYOND War “for exceptional global advocacy and creative ... More >>
It’s The Weapons Sales, Stupid
Wednesday, 3 November 2021, 9:18 am | David Swanson
U.S. presidential election campaigns have been known to focus on the slogan “It’s the economy, stupid.” Efforts to explain the behavior of the U.S. government ought to put a little more focus on a different slogan, found in the headline above. Andrew ... More >>
Rotary Divests From Weapons Companies
Thursday, 28 October 2021, 3:21 pm | David Swanson
A Rotarian has just made me aware that Rotary quietly adopted a policy in June of not investing in weapons companies. This is worth celebrating and encouraging all other organizations to do likewise. Here is the policy, excerpted from a document ... More >>
Why I’m Going To The Frontlines Of The Wet’suwet’en Resistance
Thursday, 28 October 2021, 3:06 pm | David Swanson
World BEYOND War is supporting our Canada Organizer, Rachel Small, in spending the first half of November at Gidimt’en camp at the invitation of Wet’suwet’en leaders who are defending their territory while confronting militarized colonial ... More >>
The Trouble With A Humanitarian Award For Hillary Clinton
Tuesday, 26 October 2021, 9:30 am | David Swanson
Open Letter to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry More >>
The Empires That Brought Us Here
Thursday, 14 October 2021, 9:52 am | David Swanson
Empire is still (or newly, as it wasn’t always) a touchy subject in the U.S. Empire. Most people in the United States would deny that the United States has ever had an empire, just because they’ve never heard of it, and so it must not exist. And those ... More >>
325 Organizations Propose Climate Solution You’ve Never Heard Of
Friday, 24 September 2021, 9:02 am | David Swanson
Yesterday something that has become tiresomely routine happened; I spoke to a college class about the most obvious climate solution, and neither the students nor the professor had ever heard of it. The 325 organizations (and climbing) listed at the bottom of ... More >>
Guantanamo Past the Point of All Shame
Friday, 10 September 2021, 9:01 am | David Swanson
U.S. high schools should teach courses on Guantanamo: what not to do in the world, how not to make it even worse, and how not to compound that catastrophe beyond all shame and recovery. As we tear down Confederate statues and continue brutalizing ... More >>
Atheism Could Save Journalism, Democracy, and Your Family
Wednesday, 8 September 2021, 9:33 am | David Swanson
I know, I know, journalism is so bad you don’t really want it saved or really see what saving it would mean — much less want it saved by some evil abomination like atheism. And we’ve never actually had democracy. And I’ve got no business ... More >>
The Washington Post’s Case Against Democracy
Tuesday, 31 August 2021, 2:38 pm | David Swanson
The Washington Post has been a leading promoter of the Rules Based Order, which some have confused with a pro-democracy initiative. The Post has, however, assembled a powerful case against democracy, that we all need to take seriously if we want ... More >>
What the War of Terror Has Cost Us So Far
Tuesday, 31 August 2021, 9:28 am | David Swanson
Malika Ahmadi, two, died in a U.S. drone strike on Kabul today, her family says . Has the war of 20 years cost us the ability to care? The war on Afghanistan and the war on Iraq that it was a means of helping start, and all the other spin-off ... More >>
Adding Women to Military Draft in the Name of Feminism
Monday, 30 August 2021, 8:43 am | David Swanson
In some future lovely little war, perhaps with China or some other demonized target, some percentage of the U.S. public may suddenly exclaim: “Hey, since when does a draft include young women as well as men?!” More >>
Tech Giant Censors or the Stuff You Want Censored?
Thursday, 26 August 2021, 9:53 am | David Swanson
The communications system we live in is highly complex, mostly driven by greed and profit, in part semi-public, full of filth I know we’d be better off without, and increasingly openly censored and monitored by defenders of accepted good thinking. More >>
War: Ever More Present and Absent
Wednesday, 25 August 2021, 8:54 am | David Swanson
In many ways, war is ever more and less visible. Of course in U.S. academia, the Pinkerist pretense that we are living through a period of great peace is accomplished by all sorts of statistical manipulation, but first and foremost by declaring civil ... More >>
End the U.S. Military Air Base Construction in Henoko
Monday, 23 August 2021, 8:44 am | David Swanson
A petition to President Joe Biden was read aloud in English and Japanese at the White House and at the Embassy of Japan in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, August 21, 2021, by David Swanson and Hideko Otake. More >>
Lies, Damn Lies, And What We’ve Been Told About Afghanistan
Wednesday, 18 August 2021, 9:14 am | David Swanson
It’s far from the longest U.S. war. There was no peace before or after it. There is no after it until they end it — and bombing has always been most of what it is. It has had nothing to do with opposing terrorism. It has been a one-sided slaughter, ... More >>
Afghanistan: So What Do the Filthy Commie Peaceniks Say Now?
Monday, 16 August 2021, 10:38 am | David Swanson
So, people get hurt when you stop waging wars, and peace is dangerous, and . . . and . . . well, women’s rights! What do the stupid peace lovers say now? Well, here’s what this one says: On September 11, 2001, I said, “Well, that proves ... More >>
Activists Paint Tank Tracks To Doors Of Weapons Dealers
Wednesday, 11 August 2021, 8:45 am | David Swanson
https://worldbeyondwar.org/activists-paint-tank-tracks-to-doors-of-weapons-dealers/ CANADA – Activists across Canada marked the third anniversary of the Yemen school bus massacre on Monday with protests at weapons manufacturers and government offices, ... More >>
Knowing Humanity’s End Is Near And Staying Sane
Monday, 9 August 2021, 9:30 am | David Swanson
<img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2108/50af546e9f6ac25b968f.jpeg" width="720" height="480"> I read Daniel Sherrell’s Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World sitting on the edge of what was left of the ... More >>
