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By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, March 3, 2024
There’s a guide at wordsaboutwar.org to some of the standard war language used for big bucks by professional propagandists and for free by almost everyone else who has normalized it and not given it another thought. Manufacturing tools for mass murder is called “the defense industry,” those murdered are called “collateral damage,” the purpose is labeled “the national interest,” etc.
The trouble with talking like the Pentagon or CNN
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By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, February 23, 2024
We asked people to sign this petition and add comments. Here are some of the comments they added:
Stop the weapons shipments, and replace them with diplomacy and a new focus on the human and environmental crises that these wars defund, distract from, and exacerbate.
The arms trade is negative value production that adversely impacts on international currencies as well as life, living standards, and the natural world.
“Mankind must put an end to
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, February 21, 2024
The father of modern warmaking Henry Kissinger died, and every major media outlet made a lot of noise — millions of articles on the internet. Fair enough. What would contemporary coup-making or genocide be without his seminal work?
But when the father of peace studies Johan Galtung died, not a single corporate media outlet said a single word. Not even an obituary. Not even a paragraph. And even decent people said and knew nothing. And even
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By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, February 14, 2024
How can media outlets be taken seriously — and I do not mean this rhetorically — when they shout that two hostages have been freed while adding in the fine print that several dozen mere Palestinians have been killed in the process, when they propose that a city of starving refugees be bombed in a manner that “protects civilians,” when they equate fueling wars with “aid”?
One part of the answer is that they feature raging debates between
In this video, David Swanson discusses with Michigan Peace Council how to build a local peace group.
Michigan Peace Council is here: https://michiganpeacecouncil.org
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By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, January 31, 2024
For a couple of decades now, the very worst people in Washington, D.C., have pushed hard for a war on Iran. Some high points have come in 2007, 2015, 2017, and 2024. Each time it has been absolutely critical to attack Iran at once. There could be no delay. Dominoes would fall. Terrorism would prevail. Credibility would be sqandered. And yet, each time, the threatened war has not been launched, and the world has gone on just the same.
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