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Study Finds People Assume War Is Only Last Resort
Sunday, 18 January 2015, 5:19 pm | David Swanson
Study Finds People Assume War Is Only Last Resort By David Swanson worldbeyondwar.org/ - January 16th 2014 More >>
CIA on Trial in Virginia for Planting Nuke Evidence in Iran
Sunday, 18 January 2015, 5:15 pm | David Swanson
Since Tuesday and continuing for the coming three weeks, an amazing trial is happening in U.S. District Court at 401 Courthouse Square in Alexandria, Va. The trial is open to the public, and among the upcoming witnesses is Condoleezza Rice, but -- unlike ... More >>
U.S. Blows Off North Korea’s Offer to Stop Nuclear Tests
Sunday, 18 January 2015, 10:41 am | David Swanson
The U.S. should negotiate with North Korea on its proposal to cancel nuclear tests in exchange for a U.S. suspension of joint military exercises with South Korea. More >>
Talk Nation : Kristin Christman on the Taxonomy of Peace
Wednesday, 7 January 2015, 8:00 am | David Swanson
Kristin Y. Christman is author of The Taxonomy of Peace, a work that analyzes the aggressive and defensive roots of violence in the Middle East and the United States, as well as mental, legal, and physical escalators of violence, and solutions to violence. ... More >>
David Swanson : Presidents Are Gods
Tuesday, 6 January 2015, 9:03 am | David Swanson
A former Governor of Virginia is expected to be sentenced to a long stay in prison. The same fate has befallen governors in states across the United States, including in nearby Maryland, Tennessee, and West Virginia. A former governor of Illinois is ... More >>
The Atlantic Can't Figure Out Why U.S. Loses Wars
Sunday, 4 January 2015, 9:12 pm | David Swanson
The cover of the January-February 2015 The Atlantic asks "Why Do The Best Soldiers in the World Keep Losing?" which leads to this article , which fails to answer the question. More >>
Jonathan Landay on War, Politics, and Media | Talk Nation
Wednesday, 31 December 2014, 12:51 pm | David Swanson
Jonathan Landay is a reporter for McClatchy. His reporting at Knight Ridder during the marketing of the 2003 invasion of Iraq was virtually the only skeptical reporting in the corporate press. He discusses current wars and politics. More >>
Renaming Afghan War, Renaming Murder | David Swanson
Tuesday, 30 December 2014, 3:58 pm | David Swanson
The U.S.-led NATO war on Afghanistan has lasted so long they've decided to rename it, declare the old war over, and announce a brand new war they're just sure you're going to love. More >>
Talk Nation Radio:Jonathan Newton on Ending Police Brutality
Wednesday, 24 December 2014, 12:13 pm | David Swanson
Jonathan Newton is founder of the National Association Against Police Brutality (http://naapb.org). He discusses steps that can be taken to address the problem, including eliminating the conflict of interest involved in police investigations of themselves. More >>
The Case Against Re-Banning Torture Yet Again
Friday, 19 December 2014, 5:40 pm | David Swanson
Senator Ron Wyden has a petition up at MoveOn.org that reads "Right now, torture is banned because of President Obama's executive order. It's time for Congress to pass a law banning torture, by all agencies, so that a future president can never ... More >>
No More Khirbet Khizehs
Friday, 19 December 2014, 5:24 pm | David Swanson
On the day in 2014 that I read the new English translation of Khirbet Khizeh, Tom Engelhardt published a blog post rewriting recent news articles on the U.S. Senate's torture report as a 2019 Senate report on drone murders. More >>
Intersection of Mistakes with Misdeeds
Tuesday, 16 December 2014, 4:53 pm | David Swanson
On a pleasant spring day in December it's nice to drive past the endlessly under-construction intersection of Route 250 and McIntire Road in Charlottesville, Va., and realize that the darn thing must nearly be completed. It looks sturdy and attractive. There's ... More >>
We're Not Exceptional, We're Isolated
Monday, 15 December 2014, 1:56 pm | David Swanson
This weekend I participated in an interesting exercise. A group of activists staged a debate in which some of us argued that peace and environmental and economic justice are possible, while another group argued against us. More >>
Claim Nobody's Punished for Drone Murders Mistaken
Friday, 12 December 2014, 5:40 pm | David Swanson
A psychologist who played a key role in a U.S. torture program said on a video yesterday that torture was excusable because blowing up families with a drone is worse (and nobody's punished for that). Well, of course the existence of something worse is ... More >>
Elizabeth Warren Could Use Some Elizabeth Peacen
Friday, 12 December 2014, 5:29 pm | David Swanson
Why people want to become fans of a senator rather than pushing senators to serve the public is beyond me. Why people want to distract and drain away two years of activism, with the planet in such peril, fantasizing about electing a messiah is ... More >>
Plutocrats for Peace: the Nobel-Carnegie Model
Friday, 12 December 2014, 4:57 pm | David Swanson
We do not know of, but also cannot exclude, a meeting face to face, or an exchange of letters, between Alfred Nobel and Andrew Carnegie that can explain how strikingly “similar Andrew Carnegie’s ideas, as well as his philanthropy, were to Alfred ... More >>
Lia Tarachansky on How Israel Was Really Created in 1948
Wednesday, 10 December 2014, 5:35 pm | David Swanson
On Talk Nation Radio with David Swanson, Lia Tarachansky discusses her new film On the Side of the Road, which looks at the creation of Israel and the erasure of what was there before. More >>
Rand Paul Declares a Non-War War
Tuesday, 9 December 2014, 2:32 pm | David Swanson
Senator Rand Paul wants Congress to Declare war on ISIS. Some, like Bruce Fein, are willing to ignore the UN Charter and the Kellogg Briand Pact, and write as if a war would be legal if Congress would just declare it. More >>
David Swanson: Israel's Secret
Friday, 5 December 2014, 1:13 pm | David Swanson
Here in Virginia, U.S.A., I'm aware that the native people were murdered, driven out, and moved westward. But my personal connection to that crime is weak, and frankly I'm too busy trying to rein in my government's current abuses to focus on the distant ... More >>
There Goes Virginia's Climate
Friday, 28 November 2014, 4:01 pm | David Swanson
A snowstorm is the ideal time to write about climate disruption, as it allows us to immediately set-aside the cartoonish claim that if any spot on earth isn't warmer than it was yesterday then all is well. The following things we know: More >>
