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By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, November 11, 2023
Remarks on November 11, 2023, at Veterans For Peace event in Iowa City, Iowa
Ukraine needs an armistice.
Palestine needs an armistice.
Nagorno-Karabakh needs an armistice.
Syria, Sudan, Nigeria, and so many countries need an armistice.
The U.S. public and its mass shooters need an armistice.
And by armistice I do not mean a pause to re-load. I mean an end to the idiotic madness of mass-murder that risks nuclear apocalypse, an end in order to
Remarks at Muslim Community of the Quad Cities in Bettendorf, Iowa, November 10, 2023
In the popular Western imagination war resembles a sport with what President Joe Biden calls “teams” with differently colored uniforms on an identifiable and uninhabited “battlefield” where mostly soldiers die. That almost no war has resembled this since World War One does not stop the endless outcries, during each and every war:
“This is not a war! It’s an occupation!”
“This is no war! Stop calling
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, November 9, 2023
Remarks at The Columbus Free Press Annual Awards Dinner, November 9, 2023
The typical response in the United States to the gradual buildup to a war, or even the launching of a war, or even the launching of a war that is reported in U.S. corporate media, is absolutely nothing different: work, school, shopping, sports, movies, etc.
Among those who have some response, it’s typically based on their understanding of the particular war, shaped largely
By David Swanson, November 6, 2023
Remarks at Cambridge, Mass., November 6, 2023
If we think of the U.S. arming of genocidal colonial violence in Israel as an anachronistic throwback, we’re not wrong, but there’s something we’re missing. If we want to understand why a bill to fund four wars at once is likely to find less, rather than more, opposition in the U.S. Congress, there’s something we should understand about the past, about how we got here.
If we want to know how war
By WORT Community Radio in Madison, Wisconsin, November 3, 2023
During this time of global unrest, violence, and clashing opinions, we spend an hour with peace activist David Swanson. He joins Esty Dinur to discuss a path to peace in Palestine-Israel and Ukraine, the impact of the military–industrial complex, and why the suggestion of peace seems to outrage many.
They also speak about Esty’s recent
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In the United States, only a very small percentage of men under 60 are military veterans.
In the United States, at least 31% of male mass shooters under 60 (which is almost all mass shooters) are military veterans.
That’s 40 out of 127 mass shooters in Mother Jones’ database whom I’ve been
Chair: Rita Payne, President Emeritus, Commonwealth Journalists Association
Speakers:
Vijay Mehta, Chair, Uniting for Peace, Author, How Not To Go To War, Board Member, GAMIP (Global Alliance for Ministries and Infrastructures for Peace) (UK)
Medea Benjamin, Political Activist, Co-Founder of CodePink, Author, War in Ukraine (USA)
Tony Robinson, Editor, Pressenza – An International News Agency and Author, Coffee with Silo and the quest for meaning in life (UK)
Joseph Gerson, Peace
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By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, October 24, 2023
I don’t recall getting to vote on sending more weapons to four wars at a time in the name of democracy, do you?
Has anybody asked you whether you agree with the media’s universal consensus that having a House Speaker who could facilitate the prolongation, escalation, and creation of numerous wars would be obviously better than not having a House Speaker?
Has a single member of the House even agreed to shut up and stop speaking during what should