War Is A Crime

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 read more

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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 read more

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 read more

By World BEYOND War, October 14, 2026

This webinar uses fantastic slide shows and refers to wonderful resources and upcoming action opportunities, all of which are here:

https://worldbeyondwar.org/stop-us-war-spending

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Talk World Radio is recorded on Zoom.

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The latest news is of war fighting around the nuclear facilities in Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine. This is in a part of the world that can already boast in Chernobyl one of the four big nuclear power disasters. When Russia first invaded, unarmed civilians protected the dangerous site in Zaporizhzhya, but as soon as armed troops took over, the shooting started, and it’s worsened since, with taboos being tossed aside in succession as if the continued existence of humanity is grounds for not only keeping read more