War Is A Crime

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As one politician, all too sadly, returns to Washington — and you know just who I mean — another, all too sadly, is leaving. Call it, if not the end of history, then at least the end of something that matters (and, of course, the beginning of who knows what else). Departing is read more

Like the Republican Party whose senators will make Pete Hegseth the next U.S. Secretary of War, Hegseth is a bad joke. The Democratic minority in the horribly unrepresentative Senate is a joke you might hear at an amateur mic night.

Hegseth is a guy who has reportedly shouted “Kill all Muslims.” Nobody asked him if he had done that or if he agreed with it — not even when he claimed to have been labeled an extremist purely for having a Christian tattoo. He’s a guy who has told troops in read more

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Almost 80 years later, it’s sadly all too easy to forget that two nuclear weapons were once used with devastating effect on this planet. Here’s just a small description by one survivor of the atomic destruction of the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, that can be found in the book read more

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Yes, when Hamas attacked Israel brutally on October 7, 2023, at least two tiny children (and possibly more) died. In response, in the year and a quarter since then, the Israelis have read more

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, January 12, 2025

The growing genre of war abolition books out-number, out-think, and — for anyone who reads them — probably out-persuade the bizarre recent genre of war-is-good-for-you books, which I take to include Christopher Coker’s Why War, Margaret MacMillan’s War: read more

Featuring:

• David Swanson, Executive Director of World BEYOND War, Campaign Coordinator for RootsAction. His books include “War Is A Lie.” Awarded 2018 Peace Prize by the U.S. Peace Memorial Foundation.
• Emma Claire Foley, RootsAction nuclear weapons policy expert, writer, and filmmaker. Her commentaries have been featured in Newsweek, NBC, the Guardian and other international news outlets.
• David Vine, Writer and political anthropologist. Author of the books “The

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Hey, why not buy (or just take) Greenland? After all, we already have a military base there, once known as Thule Air Base and, in 2023, renamed Pituffik Space Base in honor of the settlement read more

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, January 7, 2025

The U.S. Secretary of State has taken a break from demanding more weapons shipments to fuel the genocide in Palestine, to announce that he has “recognized” a genocide in Sudan.

Blinken says he has based his determination on the horrific killing of civilians in Sudan, without citing any evidence of intent to commit genocide. It is the voluminous evidence of that intent that distinguishes the genocide in Gaza from most wars, virtually every one read more

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Let’s face it: our world is, to put it mildly, a distinct mess. It doesn’t matter whether you’re checking out the never-ending, devastating war in Ukraine; the ever more embattled Middle East; North Korea, which has more than 11,000 troops fighting and read more