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Saturday, October 11, 2025
Nobel Committee Tried Its Best to Give Trump a Peace Prize But the Nobel Committee did the next best thing, and must be hoping in vain that Trump manages to understand that.
Saturday, October 11, 2025Nobel Committee Tried Its Best to Give Trump a Peace Prize But the Nobel Committee did the next best thing, and must be hoping in vain that Trump manages to understand that.
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Sunday, October 5, 2025
What Abolishing Militaries Includes Abolition isnt just a fun word to say. I want to abolish prisons, doesnt just mean that you think there are too many prisons and they are too horrible. Abolish the police isnt just a hip way to say Im angry at abuse by police. Abolishing something means eliminating it entirely, which often also means creating very different institutions that do things very differently. Entirely means every last speck.
Sunday, October 5, 2025What Abolishing Militaries Includes Abolition isnt just a fun word to say. I want to abolish prisons, doesnt just mean that you think there are too many prisons and they are too horrible. Abolish the police isnt just a hip way to say Im angry at abuse by police. Abolishing something means eliminating it entirely, which often also means creating very different institutions that do things very differently. Entirely means every last speck.
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Friday, October 3, 2025
32% of Mass Shooters Are Veterans. 0% of Media Outlets Will Say So. Two U.S. military veterans allegedly shot and killed at least three people each this past weekend, Thomas Jacob Sanford in Michigan, and Nigel Max Edge in North Carolina. So, it is a safe bet that they will both be added (with, almost certainly, no mention of their status as veterans) to the database maintained by Mother Jones that I have for years been using as a starting point to track statistics on mass shootings.
Friday, October 3, 202532% of Mass Shooters Are Veterans. 0% of Media Outlets Will Say So. Two U.S. military veterans allegedly shot and killed at least three people each this past weekend, Thomas Jacob Sanford in Michigan, and Nigel Max Edge in North Carolina. So, it is a safe bet that they will both be added (with, almost certainly, no mention of their status as veterans) to the database maintained by Mother Jones that I have for years been using as a starting point to track statistics on mass shootings.
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Monday, September 29, 2025
How Not to Halt a Genocide All those courageous United Nation delegates triumphantly walking out (gasp!) on a Netanyahu speech on Friday actually had a legal obligation to arrest him and deliver him to the International Criminal Court that has long since issued a warrant for his arrest.
Monday, September 29, 2025How Not to Halt a Genocide All those courageous United Nation delegates triumphantly walking out (gasp!) on a Netanyahu speech on Friday actually had a legal obligation to arrest him and deliver him to the International Criminal Court that has long since issued a warrant for his arrest.
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Sunday, September 21, 2025
House Speaker Mike Johnson is a Leading War Criminal It's a crowded field, I know. Soldiers are proudly publishing videos of their own gruesome crimes. Prime Ministers are touring the world in defiance of arrest warrants. But I want to make sure we're aware of one prominent member of the list of individuals responsible for the crime of war: U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (Republican from the state of total submission to Trump).
Sunday, September 21, 2025House Speaker Mike Johnson is a Leading War Criminal It's a crowded field, I know. Soldiers are proudly publishing videos of their own gruesome crimes. Prime Ministers are touring the world in defiance of arrest warrants. But I want to make sure we're aware of one prominent member of the list of individuals responsible for the crime of war: U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (Republican from the state of total submission to Trump).
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Friday, September 19, 2025
The Shooter's Ideology The hunt for the political ideology driving each murder that makes the news obscures some key points.
Friday, September 19, 2025The Shooter's Ideology The hunt for the political ideology driving each murder that makes the news obscures some key points.
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Sunday, September 14, 2025
There Was a Boat. That Was the Only True Part. This was what the President of the United States initially lied: Earlier this morning, on my Orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a kinetic strike against positively identified Tren de Aragua Narcoterrorists in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility. TDA is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, operating under the control of Nicolas Maduro . . .
Sunday, September 14, 2025There Was a Boat. That Was the Only True Part. This was what the President of the United States initially lied: Earlier this morning, on my Orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a kinetic strike against positively identified Tren de Aragua Narcoterrorists in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility. TDA is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, operating under the control of Nicolas Maduro . . .
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Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Europe Does Opposite of Restoring Names to Departments of War The European Commission, far from eager to restore the non-Orwellian name to departments of war -- long since rebranded as departments of "defense" -- is pushing to get deadly weapons categorized as especially ethical "investments" meeting Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria. Specifically, the tools of war, according to the European Commission, advance the cause of peace.
Wednesday, September 10, 2025Europe Does Opposite of Restoring Names to Departments of War The European Commission, far from eager to restore the non-Orwellian name to departments of war -- long since rebranded as departments of "defense" -- is pushing to get deadly weapons categorized as especially ethical "investments" meeting Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria. Specifically, the tools of war, according to the European Commission, advance the cause of peace.
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Saturday, August 30, 2025
LA, DC, Chicago and Mass Nonviolent Uprisings There's already a long string of successful creative actions being employed nonviolently.
Saturday, August 30, 2025LA, DC, Chicago and Mass Nonviolent Uprisings There's already a long string of successful creative actions being employed nonviolently.
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Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Democratic National Committee Deserves More Credit on Gaza The Democratic National Committee, the people who run the least popular political party in recorded U.S. polling, do not get the respect they deserve especially when they take a bold, principled stand for a genocide, as they did on Tuesday, voting down a resolution for an arms embargo on Israel.
Wednesday, August 27, 2025Democratic National Committee Deserves More Credit on Gaza The Democratic National Committee, the people who run the least popular political party in recorded U.S. polling, do not get the respect they deserve especially when they take a bold, principled stand for a genocide, as they did on Tuesday, voting down a resolution for an arms embargo on Israel.
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Friday, August 22, 2025
The Case Against a Military Intervention to Stop the Gaza Genocide The more we put into unarmed civilian defense, the more likely it is to succeed (right up to the extreme in which millions of people are involved and success is guaranteed), whereas the more we put into escalating the war with an intervention, the more likely the war is to do more damage (right up to the extreme of killing all life on Earth).
Friday, August 22, 2025The Case Against a Military Intervention to Stop the Gaza Genocide The more we put into unarmed civilian defense, the more likely it is to succeed (right up to the extreme in which millions of people are involved and success is guaranteed), whereas the more we put into escalating the war with an intervention, the more likely the war is to do more damage (right up to the extreme of killing all life on Earth).
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Thursday, August 14, 2025
Ukraine: WE TOLD YOU SO I hate to say I told you so. It's obnoxious really. But sometimes it is an important point. In this case the point is this: the people who are always right about wars were right about the war in Ukraine, whereas the experts who are always on television and in government were, as usual, wrong.
Thursday, August 14, 2025Ukraine: WE TOLD YOU SO I hate to say I told you so. It's obnoxious really. But sometimes it is an important point. In this case the point is this: the people who are always right about wars were right about the war in Ukraine, whereas the experts who are always on television and in government were, as usual, wrong.
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Monday, August 11, 2025
If Humans Were as Evil as Were Usually Told, We'd be Extinct Did you know that for most of our species' existence our ancestors led lives that were egalitarian, healthy, leisurely, playful, and full of friendship and cooperation?
Monday, August 11, 2025If Humans Were as Evil as Were Usually Told, We'd be Extinct Did you know that for most of our species' existence our ancestors led lives that were egalitarian, healthy, leisurely, playful, and full of friendship and cooperation?
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Sunday, August 3, 2025
No, Nuking Cities Did Not Save Lives It's oddly encouraging that the New York Post had to bring up its kookiest rightwing propagandist on Friday to argue that nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved lives.
Sunday, August 3, 2025No, Nuking Cities Did Not Save Lives It's oddly encouraging that the New York Post had to bring up its kookiest rightwing propagandist on Friday to argue that nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved lives.
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Saturday, August 2, 2025
How the Military Industrial Complex Chose What Killed the Dinosaurs Your average person, school teacher, or Wikipedia editor will tell you that we've long known what killed the dinosaurs millions of years before humans came around: an asteroid smashing into what is now Mexico.
Saturday, August 2, 2025How the Military Industrial Complex Chose What Killed the Dinosaurs Your average person, school teacher, or Wikipedia editor will tell you that we've long known what killed the dinosaurs millions of years before humans came around: an asteroid smashing into what is now Mexico.
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Saturday, July 26, 2025
The Hague Group and How Far We Are from the Rule of Law This ought to be built on, but it ought to be built on in the direction of universalization, of reforming and democratizing the United Nations (chiefly through the elimination of the veto, or the development of courage and integrity in the General Assembly) or replacing it with an institution that applies the rule of law equally and swiftly to all.
Saturday, July 26, 2025The Hague Group and How Far We Are from the Rule of Law This ought to be built on, but it ought to be built on in the direction of universalization, of reforming and democratizing the United Nations (chiefly through the elimination of the veto, or the development of courage and integrity in the General Assembly) or replacing it with an institution that applies the rule of law equally and swiftly to all.
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Saturday, June 28, 2025
The Radical Wisdom of Neutrality Remarks at Neutrality Colloquium: A Call to Action for Active Neutrality & World Peace, June 26-27, 2025 in Geneva, Switzerland.
Saturday, June 28, 2025The Radical Wisdom of Neutrality Remarks at Neutrality Colloquium: A Call to Action for Active Neutrality & World Peace, June 26-27, 2025 in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Tuesday, June 17, 2025
A U.S. Bank Closed Our Accounts Because I'd Visited Cuba Six Months Ago For years, World BEYOND War and other peace groups from around the world had been attending peace conferences in Cuba. When I visited Cuba this past January it was with a visa for that purpose. I published here the remarks I made at the conference. We shouted as loudly as we could about January's conference in websites, social media, emails, and media interviews. The notion that there could be anything wrong with it . . .
Tuesday, June 17, 2025A U.S. Bank Closed Our Accounts Because I'd Visited Cuba Six Months Ago For years, World BEYOND War and other peace groups from around the world had been attending peace conferences in Cuba. When I visited Cuba this past January it was with a visa for that purpose. I published here the remarks I made at the conference. We shouted as loudly as we could about January's conference in websites, social media, emails, and media interviews. The notion that there could be anything wrong with it . . .
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Wednesday, June 11, 2025
The Warning That Was Charlottesville I recommend reading Charlottesville: An American Story by Deborah Baker. It's an account, of course, not of all aspects of the city of Charlottesville, but principally of the Nazi-KKK-White Supremacist riot of 2017 that has taken on the name "Charlottesville" -- including in a movie. The book itself is the furthest thing from predictable. The majority of it is pre-riot, with countless illuminating tangents.
Wednesday, June 11, 2025The Warning That Was Charlottesville I recommend reading Charlottesville: An American Story by Deborah Baker. It's an account, of course, not of all aspects of the city of Charlottesville, but principally of the Nazi-KKK-White Supremacist riot of 2017 that has taken on the name "Charlottesville" -- including in a movie. The book itself is the furthest thing from predictable. The majority of it is pre-riot, with countless illuminating tangents.
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Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Law, Not Crime, Has Come From South of the Border Not so much criminals as the foundations of the rule of law -- that is what has infiltrated the United States from Latin America. That seems to be a major thread running through Greg Grandin's wonderful new history of the hemisphere, America, Ame'rica: A New History of the New World. It's a book you can dive back into repeatedly, not to mention fantasize about someone compacting it into a short slideshow for Trump.
Wednesday, June 4, 2025Law, Not Crime, Has Come From South of the Border Not so much criminals as the foundations of the rule of law -- that is what has infiltrated the United States from Latin America. That seems to be a major thread running through Greg Grandin's wonderful new history of the hemisphere, America, Ame'rica: A New History of the New World. It's a book you can dive back into repeatedly, not to mention fantasize about someone compacting it into a short slideshow for Trump.
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