AUDIO: David Swanson on Russia, Ukraine, and War Madness

By Sputnik, January 13, 2022

John and Michelle catch up with David Swanson, executive director of World BEYOND War, to talk about the latest developments with NATO and conflict zones around the world. John points out that the direct link between EU membership and increased well-being for the population is questionable. Hungary joined the EU, and that isn’t what happened.

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Read Glen Ford

By David Swanson

Someone asked me the other day for advice on collecting the best essays of the past 20 years. I recommended the new collection of Glen Ford’s called The Black Agenda. I recommend it to everyone — including people who are not black. I’m not black.

Glen Ford was my friend and an ally in the struggles for peace and justice. He was a leader and a brilliant and an always reliable speaker, writer, and organizer on anti-racism, anti-oligarchy, anti-poverty, and anti-war work. He read more

AUDIO: Veterans For Peace: Panel Discusses VFP Nuclear Posture Review, A Plan for Peace

By Veterans For Peace, January 12, 2022

We continue to discuss the importance of the effort of Veterans For Peace to develop a legitimate Nuclear Posture Review with a distinguished panel including

  • David Swanson, Executive Director of World BEYOND War and VFP Advisory Board Member;
  • Alice Slater, World BEYOND War Board Member and Veterans For Peace Nuclear Abolition Working Group Member;
  • Rachel Clark, Veterans For Peace Nuclear Abolition Working Group Member

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Talk World Radio: Robert Fantina on Iran and Non-Agreements

AUDIO:

Talk World Radio is recorded as audio and video on Riverside.fm, unless we can’t get it to work and then it’s recorded on Zoom. Here is this week’s video and all the videos on Youtube.

VIDEO:

This week on Talk World Radio, we’re talking about the difficulty the U.S. government has in ceasing to threaten war on Iran or even committing to uphold future commitments. Our guest, Robert Fantina, is a Member of the Board of Directors of World BEYOND War. He is based in Canada. read more

Treaties, Constitutions, and Laws Against War

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, January 10, 2022

You’d hardly guess it from all the silent acceptance of war as a legal enterprise and all the chatter about ways to supposedly keep war legal through the reform of particular atrocities, but there are international treaties that make wars and even the threat of war illegal, national constitutions that make wars and various activities that facilitate wars illegal, and laws that make killing illegal with no exceptions for the use of missiles read more