A blog about a criminal enterprise
For millennia, the world’s people have been kidding themselves about national security.
Worried about the survival of their nation in a world of self-interested, sometimes aggressive nations, people have armed and prepared themselves for war. Only military strength, they have assumed, would fend off or defeat a military attack on their nation.
And a case can be made for this assumption, for not all nations―and not all people―are willing to deal peacefully or justly with their neighbors.
Even
If there is still someone out there who has persisted until now in the idea that Ukrainian history began in 2022, and that wiser members of the U.S. establishment didn’t warn against, and more conniving members strategize for, each U.S. step toward war from the NATO enlargement of the 1990s through the U.S.-backed coup of 2014, the U.S.-backed war that began in 2014, Obama’s military training and base building, Trump’s weapons shipments, Biden’s hostility toward diplomacy, the fantastic
Every year for many years now, the bitterly divided, grid-locked, virtually civil-war-waging United States Congress (as it’s commonly depicted) has harmoniously voted for vastly more money in war spending than it had done the year before. Our lords and misrepresentatives are threatening the same again right now.
It’s a heartwarming story or cooperation and understanding, no doubt, but how can you, as an elected official, explain to constituents living third-world lives in a wealthy nation that,
Wednesday, October 21 – 3:00 to 3:30 pm
Speaking Truth to Empire on KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno, Dan Yaseen interviews Lisa Savage, an antiwar activist, a retired school teacher and a union negotiator who supports Medicare for All, the Green New Deal and believes public higher education should be tuition free. You can read her blogs at: https://went2thebridge.substack.com/. They discuss ever expanding war in West Asia and its’ consequences.
When the South Korean President declared martial law in December 2024, protesters immediately assembled, the National Assembly voted down the decree, and the protests grew to include a million people following through until impeachment, arrest, and a change of power were achieved. The Nation had an article last week called How to Stop Trump’s Coup. It brought lessons to the United States from South
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, October 24, 2026
Remarks at #NoWar2026
Welcome to #NoWar2026 Beyond Borders. Welcome to people from the other sides of countless borders from where I am — borders often effortlessly and thoughtlessly crossed by live images and audio of us, yet sometimes absurdly turned into barriers to some of our physical bodies — turned into such absurdities at enormous financial and environmental and cultural costs. Might there be another way, slightly or radically different
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Yoav Litvin and Ilan Pappé’s Wired to Steal includes a history of European anti-Semitic horrors and the development of Zionist propaganda, propaganda that from the start drew on white-supremacy, eugenics, militarism, nationalism, eventually even Nazism, and the settler-colonial ploy of stealing territory, getting oneself attacked, and then labeling and understanding genocidal violence as “defense.”
“Zionists were widely unpopular among most European Jews, who saw the ideals of the
Approximately once a day for forever, so approximately 365 times a year, someone proposes to me the same good idea. Hey, they suggest, I’d like to organize one big peace conference and create one big peace movement to unite everyone and be stronger instead of fractured.
I have several answers. First and foremost is: hell yeah, great idea, do it! do it! do it!
Another answer is: there are reasons the 364 other people who’ve said this to me this year have not actually done it, just like the 365