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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
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, September 18, 2023 There Is No Nuclear Option
Think about somebody you love. Are you doing it? Now think about them on fire, and you're holding a bucket of water. Your course of action is easy and obvious.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 14, 2023 Act Now to Save Ukrainian Peace Activist from Prosecution
We've just learned that the office of the prosecutor and the "security service" of Ukraine have published press releases claiming to have put a stop to the activities of the "vicious Russian propagandist Yurii Sheliazhenko."
SHARE Wednesday, September 13, 2023 Ukraine Solidarity Network's Unwar
Since the day Russia dramatically escalated the war in Ukraine there have been odd conversational confusions. Two people who both claim to oppose the war discover that they oppose opposite sides of the war. Or they discover that one of them opposes both sides of the war (true story, it actually exists, I'm one of them) while the other believes that only Russia is waging war at all, while Ukraine is waging something else.
SHARE Saturday, September 9, 2023 The Global Monroe Doctrine
Two hundred years ago this coming December, a local boy from my town gave a speech. In the years that followed pundits and politicians took an excerpt of that speech, carved it in marble, lit it with eternal white phosphorus bombs, and prayed to it before every shareholders' meeting.
SHARE Wednesday, September 6, 2023 How To Write And Talk About War, And How Not To
A new guide has just been published at wordsaboutwar.org that provides clear standards for how to write about war, and how not to.
SHARE Tuesday, September 5, 2023 I Don't Care How Old Our Horribly Awful Elected Officials Are
Biden and Trump are shattering the records previously held by Clinton and Trump for unpopular top presidential candidates. Professional election gurus who thought Trump had become too unpopular now think he has a shot because Biden is just as unpopular.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 29, 2023 The War Abolisher Awards of 2023 and Why They're Needed
World BEYOND War has just announced the four winners of its third-annual War Abolisher Awards. All are relatively unknown individuals or organizations working from different angles at the giant task of ridding the world of war.
SHARE Sunday, August 27, 2023 The New York Times Tries to Lie About Ukraine Without Lying
I'm pretty sure I usually read the New York Times differently from how some people read it. I read it looking for two things: the insinuations and the independent evidence.
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 19, 2023 Why Does Turning Against a War Never Include Admitting Who Was Right All Along?
Milley's accidentally saying the quiet part aloud is not understood as blurting out something forbidden but as actually grasping some unique insight into a problem the world's thinkers were otherwise universally failing to comprehend.
SHARE Thursday, August 17, 2023 The Kid at Los Alamos Who Gave the Secrets to the Soviet Union
One of the scientists at Los Alamos with Oppenheimer was 18 years old. While Oppenheimer was publicly and falsely accused of spying for the Societ Union, this young man did in fact give many of the most important secrets from Los Alamos to the Soviets, and the U.S. government chose not to prosecute him. And there is a brand-new movie by a two-time Oscar-nominated director about this other guy.
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.