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:
Video of Webinar: U.S. Military Spending and How to Stop It
Talk World Radio: A Call for a Forgiving Society
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The International Criminal Court is Under Attack
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
10 Reasons for Public Executions
The Combination of Nuclear Energy and War Threatens Us All
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
We Had to Destroy the Country to Save It
A happy music video staring our dear leader
He wouldn’t want you to share it everywhere
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