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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, July 22, 2023 Facing Factsenheimer
Some of the lies the scientists were told have been forgotten. Some we are still told today, these many decades after their exposure. So, lets' face up to a few facts.
SHARE Saturday, July 22, 2023 From Scranton to Ukraine, All Is Not As It Seems
There is something that we need to tell a great many of our friends and neighbors. It is that we have been misled. All is not as it seems.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 12, 2023 When in Rome, Do as the Americans Do?
There may be more U.S. tourists in Rome than Romans. It's hard to get away from them "" impossible if you are yourself one.
SHARE Friday, July 7, 2023 A World for Eight-Spot Butterflies
What most excites me about Julian Aguon's book No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies is that (1) there is very little indication in the cover, the blurbs, the preface, the table of contents, etc., that it opposes war, militarism, or empire, (2) but it does, and (3) people are reading it.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 17, 2023 Cruelty to Immigrants Is Cruelty to Children
Some books shouldn't have to exist, but you're glad they do. This one describes a whole field of work "" using art-creation to help kids in Arizona and Southern California deal with trauma created by anti-immigrant policies and attitudes "" which shouldn't have to exist, but you're glad it does. The book is called Drawing Deportation: Art and Resistance Among Immigrant Children by Sylvia Rodriguez Vega.
SHARE Monday, June 12, 2023 Can You See War?
The buzzing noise of a drone never ceases. A missile screaming into your house is hard to miss. Gun fire. The door kicked in. These are not subtle gestures. Yet Norman Solomon's new book is called War Made Invisible. What?
SHARE Thursday, June 8, 2023 Austrian Censorship of Peace Conference Is An Outrage
Forty-eight hours before a global peace conference in Vienna, Austria, was to begin, the venue host abruptly cancelled. Peace, it seems, cannot be discussed, especially peace in Ukraine.
SHARE Thursday, May 25, 2023 Dear Ukraine-Had-No-Choice Friends
Ukraine and Russia both will have to admit wrongdoing and compromise if the war is to end. Even if they want to go on entertaining a delusion of blamelessness, they will have to do this. They will have to allow the people of Crimea and Donbas to decide their own fate. And then Ukraine and NATO and Raytheon could declare a victory for democracy with some actual basis for doing so.
SHARE Wednesday, May 24, 2023 Dear Russia-Had-No-Choice Friends
Here's a terrible "syllogism" from a wonderful person, Ray McGovern, longtime CIA employee, then longtime peace activist, and now year-long contender that Russia had no choice but to attack Ukraine.
SHARE Wednesday, May 17, 2023 How Many People Has the U.S. Government Killed?
What I think Costs of War's report tells us for certain is that, how ever many people have been killed directly in these wars, huge numbers have also been killed indirectly.
SHARE Friday, May 12, 2023 Ending War on Earth in Illinois (Or Any Other Locality)
We very much need World BEYOND War educational and activist events and campaigns in Illinois (and every other location). We also need the people of Illinois (and every other location on Earth) as part of the global movement to end war.