A blog about a criminal enterprise
The discretionary budget for the U.S. government next year as proposed by Trump is depicted by the Washington Examiner in the above pie chart. It has passed the House and might pass the Senate. As long as half of Congress Members see their job as boot licking and the other half see their job as tweaking, these annual proposals are good indications of each fresh hell into which we are careening.
This pie chart includes 65.77% of federal discretionary spending for War, plus 6.57% for a woefully
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, August 17, 2026
The U.S. State Department has shamelessly published a video celebrating “imperialism” and “dominance” of the Western hemisphere under the banner of the Monroe Doctrine, complete with falsified history and grotesque omissions.
In 2013, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had declared the unpopular and blatantly imperialist Monroe Doctrine dead, even while acting as if it were his daily guide to action. The difference in both Trump terms,
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, August 4, 2026
Robert Kagan, veteran warmonger extraordinaire, wants to know what the “utility” would be of admitting that the war on Iraq was “a mistake.” I’m glad he asked.
But, “mistake” is not exactly the word. This was a criminal action based on lies that killed over a million people, injured over 4 million people, made homeless over 4 million people, left behind permanent
Although 81 years have passed since the atomic bombing of Japan in August 1945, the rulers of major nations continue their reckless march toward a nuclear holocaust.
The nine nuclear powers (the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France, Israel, India, Pakistan, and North Korea), possessing some 12,100 nuclear warheads, are all busily upgrading
By the Zero Hour, August 3, 2026
David Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is executive director of World BEYOND War, campaign coordinator of RootsAction.org, and host of Talk World Radio. His latest book is War is Still a Lie, the third iteration of a 2010 publication (then called War is a Lie). In it, he skillfully dismantles the deceptions and misconceptions that have been used for centuries to persuade people to fight and die.
The book is an important contribution
By The Zero Hour, August 2, 2026
Richard R.J. Eskow discusses David Swanson’s new book War Is Still A Lie with David Swanson.
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War is Still a Lie . . . still hell, still destruction, still profit, still a racket, still an investment, still death to cultures by Paulo Kirk
Not a single thing that we commonly believe about wars that helps keep them around is true. –Excerpted from “War Is Still A Lie”
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, July 28, 2026
Excerpted from War Is Still A Lie.
Since I wrote War Is A Lie in 2010 and updated it in 2015, the lies used to prop up wars have varied but continued. My summary remains true:
Not a single thing that we commonly believe about wars that helps keep them around is true. Wars cannot be good or glorious. Nor can they be justified as a means of achieving peace or anything else of value. The reasons given for wars, before, during, and after them (often