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David Swanson is the author of "When the World Outlawed War," "War Is A Lie" and "Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union." He blogs at http://davidswanson.org and http://warisacrime.org and works for the online activist organization http://rootsaction.org
SHARE Saturday, March 9, 2024 Corporate Media Can't Undertand Biden's Unpopularity
A New York Times columnist on Saturday expressed bewilderment as to Biden's unpopularity, finally concluding that it must be because borrowing money for homes or cars is expensive.
SHARE Thursday, March 7, 2024 The Soundbyte That Abolishes War
It's been a long and ciruitous search to find the handful of words that can end all warfare on Earth.
SHARE Wednesday, March 6, 2024 Telling the Truth About Peace
Some acts of truth-telling about war and peace are easy, and some involve extreme risk. Some are simple, and some require great strategic planning. Some involve facts, some analysis, and some storytelling.
SHARE Sunday, March 3, 2024 Talking Like the CIA Is Bad for You
I want to add a friendly amendment to efforts to reduce the use of Pentagon language. I think CIA language is a problem as well. I think it's at least as present as war language in Hollywood productions, and in massive child-focused cultural efforts like the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 20, 2024 Only The Good Die in Silence
The father of modern warmaking Henry Kissinger died, and every major media outlet made a lot of noise -- millions of articles on the internet. Fair enough. What would contemporary coup-making or genocide be without his seminal work? But when the father of peace studies Johan Galtung died, not a single corporate media outlet said a single word. Not even an obituary. Not even a paragraph.
SHARE Wednesday, February 14, 2024 Both Sides Are Dead Wrong About NATO
When NATO celebrates 75 years of itself in Washington D.C. in July, some of us will be saying No to NATO and Yes to Peace, without joining either side of the commonly understood debate.
SHARE Wednesday, January 31, 2024 The Urgent Need to Attack Iran Has Been Falsley Advertised for 20 Years
For a couple of decades now, the very worst people in Washington, D.C., have pushed hard for a war on Iran. Some high points have come in 2007, 2015, 2017, and 2024. Each time it has been absolutely critical to attack Iran at once. There could be no delay. Dominoes would fall. Terrorism would prevail. Credibility would be sqandered. And yet, each time, the threatened war has not been launched, and the world has gone on.
SHARE Tuesday, January 30, 2024 Understanding the Doppelganger Gang
Doppelganger is actually about, among other things, the situation we're in, not for the first time, of seeing people swing from the left to the right politically, and more than that of seeing people on the left partially swing to cobble together a bunch of rightwing positions (or beliefs) with their leftwing ones so that you don't know what to call these people's politics anymore -- and even more than that of people ...
SHARE Thursday, January 25, 2024 Do We Value Anything Else as Much as Military Spending?
The 2020 Democratic Party Platform said that Democrats would reduce military spending: "We can maintain a strong defense and protect our safety and security for less." Right on! Get out the vote!
SHARE Sunday, January 14, 2024 Murder Is Justice and Danger Is Safety
What are we to say about a U.S. culture in which people can openly admire Germany for backing yet another genocide, and condemn warning of World War III as reckless endangerment?
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 13, 2023 How Can We Still Pretend to Be for Peace? Let Me Count the Ways
I'm reminded of a school board member here in Virginia who wanted to approve recognizing the International Day of Peace as long as it could be made clear that he wasn't against any wars.
SHARE Thursday, December 7, 2023 What If New Zealand Were to Abolish Its Military
The world should read a new book from New Zealand called Abolishing the Military. New Zealand has decidedly not yet followed Costa Rica and stashed its military in a museum. And were it to do so, I can virtually guarantee you that CNN would never mention the act. But the argument for doing so is powerfully laid out in this book and -- whether the authors mean it to or not -- applies with very slight tweaking to any nation.