War Is A Crime

By refusing to take part in waging war on the people of Iran, the South Korean government obtained something else favored by many of the people of South Korea: at long last a reduction in U.S. war rehearsals and hostility toward North Korea. U.S. media outlets panicked. How could Trump abandon his duty to keep the Korean peninsula divided and the risk of nuclear apocalypse respectably high? U.S. comedians were thrilled: Trump and his fellow dictator in North Korea must be in love! The same people read more

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 read more

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, read more

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 read more

By the Zero Hour, August 3, 2026

The propaganda that never stopped—and how to stop it.

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 read more

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”

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