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Confronting Censorship in Ireland

Wednesday, 12 June 2019, 8:25 am | David Swanson

By David Swanson, Executive Director of World BEYOND War, June 11, 2019 https://worldbeyondwar.org/confronting-censorship-in-ireland/ More >>

Updated Data: Mass Shooters Still Disproportionately Veteran

Wednesday, 5 June 2019, 8:26 am | David Swanson

Mother Jones magazine has updated its database of U.S. mass shootings. I’ve downloaded it and made a few changes, before posting it here. More >>

Charlottesville Divests from Weapons and Fossil Fuels

Tuesday, 4 June 2019, 3:02 pm | David Swanson

On the evening of June 3, 2019, the City Council of Charlottesville, Va., voted to divest the funds in its operating budget from weapons dealers and fossil fuel producers. Here’s the resolution as passed by the City Council: PDF . The city has also committed ... More >>

You Can Almost Count on Each New Shooter Being a Veteran

Monday, 3 June 2019, 9:33 am | David Swanson

By David Swanson http://davidswanson.org/you-can-almost-count-on-each-new-mass-shooter-being-a-veteran/ More >>

The Worst Statue in Charlottesville

Wednesday, 29 May 2019, 9:06 am | David Swanson

A case can be made that just about any public statue in Charlottesville, Virginia, is the worst one. The much lamented statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson are not alone in their offensiveness. Determining a winner in a contest for the worst ... More >>

Fools’ Errands

Thursday, 23 May 2019, 10:17 am | David Swanson

Albion Winegar Tourgée may be best known now, though not in his lifetime, as the lead attorney in the Plessy v. Ferguson case, which was a set-up, a staged incident, with the cooperation even of the railroad company, to get a man arrested for sitting ... More >>

Don’t Iraq Iran

Friday, 17 May 2019, 10:51 am | David Swanson

http://davidswanson.org/dont-iraq-iran/ If Iran had spent the last few decades lying about and threatening the United States, and had attacked and built military bases in Canada and Mexico, and had imposed sanctions on the United States that were creating ... More >>

Why Are These Facts So Stubbornly Forbidden?

Friday, 10 May 2019, 3:34 pm | David Swanson

Like you, I’ve had countless experiences of pointing out a new fact to someone, and seeing them acknowledge it and incorporate it into their thinking and their talking from that point forward. I’ve even had this experience with public petitions pushed ... More >>

Humanitarian Aid Blocked from Entering Venezuelan Embassy

Friday, 10 May 2019, 10:07 am | David Swanson

Two months ago, I heard a story. You heard it too, if you went anywhere near a television or a newspaper in the United States. The government of Venezuela needed to be overthrown because it wouldn’t allow in humanitarian aid. More >>

The Line Between U.S. Prisons and Death Camps

Thursday, 9 May 2019, 2:49 pm | David Swanson

Ethics classes in U.S. philosophy departments are pathologically obsessed with imaginary scenarios, often involving trollies, that purport to demonstrate some people’s greater acceptance of causing death or suffering if they don’t have to physically, ... More >>

A Military Psy-Ops Campaign in the Heart of Washington

Tuesday, 7 May 2019, 2:40 pm | David Swanson

I’ve been studying the Pentagon’s use of psychological tactics in the way it recruits youth into the armed forces for 20 years, so I have a sense of the lack of boundaries practiced by the US government through its military. Now I can report ... More >>

Infotainment Is Taking Over

Friday, 3 May 2019, 10:06 am | David Swanson

Entertainment misinforms. Humans cannot possibly survive into a distant future that includes light-speed travel while simultaneously behaving like feral animals. Torture doesn’t work. Politicians don’t resemble Martin Sheen. The poor little United ... More >>

Closing Military Bases, Opening a New World

Friday, 3 May 2019, 10:00 am | David Swanson

In a day and age when many of us are taught to overcome prejudice and behave respectfully toward all, mainstream U.S. media and school texts still habitually portray U.S. lives as the only lives that really matter. More >>

Charlottesville Is Keeping Trump’s Favorite Statues

Wednesday, 1 May 2019, 10:37 am | David Swanson

Give a judge a couple of years and he’ll eventually blurt out that the sky is blue. More >>

Does Washington D.C. Need a U.S. Embassy?

Tuesday, 30 April 2019, 5:21 pm | David Swanson

By David Swanson http://davidswanson.org/does-washington-d-c-need-a-u-s-embassy/ More >>

Westminster Abbey to Give Thanks for Nuclear Weapons

Friday, 26 April 2019, 9:23 am | David Swanson

Last week I tweeted this: “The U.S. military wants to fly small nuclear power plants into wars in order to power the wars’ weaponry. Because there was some chance we might not all die fast enough if nothing this stupid was tried.” I linked to a ... More >>