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Having Enemies Is a Choice
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, April 23, 2023
What’s something that nobody can give you unless you want it?
An enemy.
This ought to be obviously true in both the personal sense and the international sense.
In your personal life, you acquire enemies by seeking them out and choosing to have them. And if, through no fault of your own, someone is cruel to you, the option remains of not behaving cruelly in return. The option remains of not even thinking anything cruelly in return. That option might
What a Supporter of Peace Can Know and Do on Memorial Day
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, April 21, 2023
Some countries have a Catholic Church holiday every day of the year. The United States has a war holiday every day of the year. Some of them, such as so-called Veterans Day, began as peace holidays that — like Mother’s Day or Martin Luther King Jr. Day — were carefully stripped of any peace content, and were instead turned toward the glorification of war and war
David Swanson and David Gibbs Talking War and Peace on the Santita Jackson Show
War Is A Religion
Talk World Radio: Margaret Kimberley on a Zone of Peace
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Militarism NATO and Ukraine | Geopolitics Exploring Myths and Realities | David Swanson
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New York Times Is Now Telling Bigger Lies Than Iraq WMDs and More Effectively
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, April 11, 2023
The New York Times routinely tells bigger lies than the clumsy nonsense it published about weapons in Iraq. Here’s an example. This package of lies is called “Liberals Have a Blind Spot on Defense” but mentions nothing related to defense. It simply pretends that militarism is defensive by applying that word and by lying that “we face simultaneous and growing military threats from Russia and China.” Seriously? Where?
The U.S. military budget
Talk World Radio: Krishen Mehta on Why the Global South Does Not Support the War in Ukraine
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The Collapse of the War System Is Not Outpacing the Collapse of the Earth’s Climate and Ecosystems
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, April 5, 2023
The Collapse of the War System: Developments in the Philosophy of Peace in the Twentieth Century by John Jacob English, published in 2007, describes the collapse, or the beginning of the collapse, in Western culture, of the inevitability of war. In other words: the popularization of the idea that war might be ended. Unfortunately, we cannot yet recount the collapse of the practice of war, with war spending, weapons dealing, conflict between