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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 Wednesday, November 23, 2022 Kicking Ilhan Omar off a Committe Will Not Help
Incoming Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has threatened to kick Congresswoman Ilhan Omar off the House Foreign Affairs Committee, with the excuse that she's "anti-Semitic" and "anti-American." Of course, these charges are false, but they are dangerous, and sufficient reason in themselves to stand up for Ilhan Omar on this.
SHARE Tuesday, November 1, 2022 The U.S. Choice Not to End This War Is Fog Fact #1
The chief fog fact is that the U.S. and its NATO sidekicks have been preventing the ending of the war, not just by providing the weapons for one side of it, but by blocking negotiations.
SHARE Wednesday, October 26, 2022 Never Withdraw a Demand for Diplomacy
Is it really going to be unacceptable to have a preference for peace? Must it be forbidden to want life on Earth protected from nuclear war? Should we start scratching off "peace" on all "Peace on Earth" holiday decorations now?
SHARE Sunday, October 16, 2022 Ten Worst National Anthems
There's probably not a corner of the Earth lacking talented, creative, and wise composers of lyrics for songs. It's unfortunate that no nation has been able to locate any of them to assist with its national anthem.
SHARE Friday, October 7, 2022 Opposing War Together With Libertarians
I've just read In Search of Monsters to Destroy by Christopher J. Coyne. It's published by the Independent Institute (which seems dedicated to untaxing the rich, destroying socialism, and so forth).
SHARE Friday, October 7, 2022 2022: Nobel Committee Gets Peace Prize Wrong Yet Again
The fact that all sides of all wars have always failed and always will fail to engage in humane operations is possibly why Alfred Nobel set up a prize to advance the abolition of war.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 6, 2022 What's Worse Than Risking Nuclear Apocalypse?
What is worse than risking the obliteration of life on Earth through nuclear war and the creation of a nuclear winter? What is more important than protecting the world from the climate collapse on fast-forward that would be a nuclear apocalypse?
SHARE Saturday, September 24, 2022 Get Mad About Nuclear Madness
Remarks in Seattle on September 24, 2022: I am so sick and tired of wars. I'm ready for peace. What about you?
SHARE Friday, September 23, 2022 Riotsville
In the late 1960s, the U.S. military built a fake town called Riotsville (or a fake "inner city" actually) on the Fort Belvoir base in Virginia, and then another at Fort Gordon in Georgia "- the same state where the Atlanta police are now working on the construction of an enlarged, updated, high-tech Riotsville commonly called "Cop City."