A blog about a criminal enterprise
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
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:
AUDIO:
Talk World Radio is recorded on Zoom.
Here is this week’s video and all the videos on Youtube.
On October 9, shortly after the announcement of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Navi Pillay, a former judge on the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Trump administration imposed its latest sanctions on the global judicial body. According to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, “we will ban transactions with this rogue court, cutting off their resources and crippling its ability to operate.”
When the ICC became operational in 2002, it represented a
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
A happy music video staring our dear leader
He wouldn’t want you to share it everywhere
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
AUDIO:
Talk World Radio is recorded on Zoom.
Here is this week’s video and all the videos on Youtube.
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,