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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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Monday, June 2, 2025
Watch This New Hollywood Movie About Gaza Our society doesn't always stand out for its values, but damn well does for its production values. There may be nothing more powerful in the world than a film -- or even a commercial -- with high production values. So I'm deeply appreciative when a well-made movie actually says something that needed saying, when you can watch the closing credits feeling wiser, rather than dirtier . . .
Monday, June 2, 2025Watch This New Hollywood Movie About Gaza Our society doesn't always stand out for its values, but damn well does for its production values. There may be nothing more powerful in the world than a film -- or even a commercial -- with high production values. So I'm deeply appreciative when a well-made movie actually says something that needed saying, when you can watch the closing credits feeling wiser, rather than dirtier . . .
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Thursday, May 22, 2025
Trump's Golden Dome Is a Combover It's one of those scientific research projects Trump loves to defund if they might succeed or do anyone any good.
Thursday, May 22, 2025Trump's Golden Dome Is a Combover It's one of those scientific research projects Trump loves to defund if they might succeed or do anyone any good.
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Thursday, May 22, 2025
Domestic Violence Is Part of What War Creates As Stacy Bannerman has been telling us for decades, the U.S. military has a domestic violence problem. So do some other -- and I strongly suspect all -- militaries.
Thursday, May 22, 2025Domestic Violence Is Part of What War Creates As Stacy Bannerman has been telling us for decades, the U.S. military has a domestic violence problem. So do some other -- and I strongly suspect all -- militaries.
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Friday, May 9, 2025
Rahm, Hakeem, and Special Places in Hell People sometimes get away with a certain kind of evil action precisely because most of us have a hard time imagining the levels of cruelty or cynicism involved.
Friday, May 9, 2025Rahm, Hakeem, and Special Places in Hell People sometimes get away with a certain kind of evil action precisely because most of us have a hard time imagining the levels of cruelty or cynicism involved.
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Saturday, April 19, 2025
Unthinking, Apathy, and Genocide A newly expanded book called The Evil of Banality by Elizabeth Minnich looks at how people come to do horrific things like genocides, but also how they allow horrible things to gradually develop.
Saturday, April 19, 2025Unthinking, Apathy, and Genocide A newly expanded book called The Evil of Banality by Elizabeth Minnich looks at how people come to do horrific things like genocides, but also how they allow horrible things to gradually develop.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Vietnam, Truth, and Reconciliation 50 Years Later Approaching 50 years since the end of the American War, as the Vietnamese call it, and something over 70 years since the start of it, depending when you start the clock, truth and reconciliation remain incomplete.
Wednesday, April 16, 2025Vietnam, Truth, and Reconciliation 50 Years Later Approaching 50 years since the end of the American War, as the Vietnamese call it, and something over 70 years since the start of it, depending when you start the clock, truth and reconciliation remain incomplete.
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Thursday, April 10, 2025
Fukushima World Thomas A. Bass's new book, Return to Fukushima, makes an overwhelming case for the absolute idiocy of pursuing nuclear energy, reveals the disaster at Fukushima to be worse than you've probably heard, and disturbingly establishes the likelihood that many of us will eventually be living in Fukushimas if humanity doesn't get rid of the nukes.
Thursday, April 10, 2025Fukushima World Thomas A. Bass's new book, Return to Fukushima, makes an overwhelming case for the absolute idiocy of pursuing nuclear energy, reveals the disaster at Fukushima to be worse than you've probably heard, and disturbingly establishes the likelihood that many of us will eventually be living in Fukushimas if humanity doesn't get rid of the nukes.
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Sunday, April 6, 2025
Why Are HANDS OFF Rallies Supporting NATO? The rational and moral international piece of the Hands Off agenda should be to eliminate both NATO and the voracious militarism that threaten the future of life on this planet.
Sunday, April 6, 2025Why Are HANDS OFF Rallies Supporting NATO? The rational and moral international piece of the Hands Off agenda should be to eliminate both NATO and the voracious militarism that threaten the future of life on this planet.
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Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Police and Prisons Belong in Museums I want to recommend three new books about abolishing police and prisons. And I want to recommend multi-issue abolitionism beyond those two institutions.
Wednesday, March 26, 2025Police and Prisons Belong in Museums I want to recommend three new books about abolishing police and prisons. And I want to recommend multi-issue abolitionism beyond those two institutions.
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Monday, March 24, 2025
The World Has Lost a Champion of Peace in David Hartsough David Hartsough, whom we have just lost to cancer at the age of 84, was a giant in the world of recent and not so recent peace activism and not just peace activism. While nobody focused more on highlighting and promoting the work of others, and on organizing and funding and supporting the work of others, David Hartsough's own story is one of the most remarkable to be found in the genre of lives lived to their fullest for the g
Monday, March 24, 2025The World Has Lost a Champion of Peace in David Hartsough David Hartsough, whom we have just lost to cancer at the age of 84, was a giant in the world of recent and not so recent peace activism and not just peace activism. While nobody focused more on highlighting and promoting the work of others, and on organizing and funding and supporting the work of others, David Hartsough's own story is one of the most remarkable to be found in the genre of lives lived to their fullest for the g
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