A happy music video staring our dear leader
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We Had to Destroy the Country to Save It
War Is Still A Racket and A Lie
The October 2026 RootsAction Education Fund Book Club features David Swanson discussing his books, War Is Still A Racket and War Is Still A Lie.
David Swanson is RAEF campaign coordinator. He is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is executive director of World BEYOND War. He blogs at DavidSwanson.org and WarIsACrime.org. He hosts “Talk World Radio.”
Jeff Cohen is RAEF co-founder and policy director. He is a media critic, columnist, documentary filmmaker, and retired journalism
Talk World Radio: Charles Goyette on Empire of Lies
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Which Way Is Peace?
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, October 3, 2026
Remarks in Baltimore on October 3, 2026, at event with War Is Still A Lie
Thank you to Ronda Cooperstein and the local chapter of World BEYOND War for setting this event up.
I recently read a big stack of books on the decline and elimination of dueling. There were thousands of factors, many of them beyond anyone’s easy control, but key among them was cultural change, was bringing people to find greater humiliation in dueling than in not dueling,
A Campaign to Address Global Economic Inequality
Although the temper tantrums of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu dominated mass media coverage of the 81st session of the UN General Assembly, which opened in September 2026, the event also included the announcement of a far more significant matter: a campaign to address the problem of worldwide economic inequality.
On September 24, standing in for South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Ronald
One Down! Abolishing Dueling and Warmaking
According to an 1838 U.S.-published instruction manual for dueling, the practice of dueling was going to last “as long as a manly independence, and a lofty personal pride in all that dignifies and ennobles the human character, shall continue to exist.”[1] Be that as it may, dueling was soon gone as a practice in any way acceptable or routine, and most of the globe had never had it to begin with.
Many years ago, I wrote a book about the outlawrists of the 1920s, people (led by lawyers) who were
Trump’s Offer to Sell Weapons to China Is Wonderful
Wednesday morning I was speaking by Zoom to a college class about war and peace, and one of the students asked about the risk of the U.S. demilitarizing and other nations not. I gave a standard answer about how a reverse arms race could be done in stages. The U.S. could commit to not spending more than three times any other nation on its military and proceed downward from there. Of the couple of dozen nations that spend much of anything on their militaries, all but three are U.S. allies and weapons
Speaking Truth to Empire
Speaking Truth to Empire on KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno, Dan Yaseen interviews John Whitehead, an attorney and
Talk World Radio: How White America Learned to Lynch Black Children
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How Donald Trump Has Lowered the Wages of American Workers
On June 6, 2025, Donald Trump’s White House staff issued an upbeat statement proclaiming that what it called the “Trump Effect” was creating “higher pay for American workers.” The reality, though, is that Trump, during his second term in office, has deliberately reduced the wages of millions of workers and, despite substantial inflation, frozen the wages of millions more.
In March 2025, kicking off his assault on workers’ wages, Trump