War Is A Crime

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In retrospect, I can understand the shock of the 9/11 attacks more fully. Back then, a decade after the fall of the Soviet Union and before the rise of China, when the U.S. seemed the singular imperial power on Planet Earth, that anyone — yes, anyone! — would dare assault not just the American homeland but the symbolic heartland of its economic power (the World read more

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All too often, the world is not what we think it is. Only recently, David Leonhardt of the New York Times reported that (and yes, be shocked!) never have more immigrants arrived in this country than read more

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, December 19, 2024

In thousands of movies and tv shows, a future is imagined in which full-grown adult humans with less self-control than toddlers both get into fist fights at the drop of a hat and possess the technology to obliterate entire cities or planets at the touch of a button. The fantasy of living in outerspace certainly does not help us preserve the one place we know how to live. But the most damaging fantasy here is that of maintaining widespread acceptance read more

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Honestly, here’s my best guess: we’re simply on the wrong planet. After all, as TomDispatch regular Michael Klare makes clear today, in the next set of Trump years, the U.S. and China are likely to face off in a major way — just how major, given the unpredictability of You read more

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Here we are in December 2024 and there can be little doubt that this year will be the warmest in human history. It also stands a more than reasonable chance of read more

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, December 13, 2024
Remarks at December 13 Online U.S.-Iran Town Hall

I was asked to talk about Gaza and Syria, and so I shall, but I also want to talk about de-normalizing murder. There have been human societies in which murder was unthinkable, where the most typical Hollywood movie — marketed to U.S. children — has been seen as horrific and traumatizing. Normalizing murder is an option, not required by genes or economics or physics. I want us to take responsibility read more

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In the 2024 election, Kamala Harris lost Democratic voters, including in Black and Hispanic communities. As a result, we now face a four-year replay of Trumpmania. Worse yet, only recently, read more

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Yes, in October 2001, less than a month after the 9/11 attacks, the war in Afghanistan began. It would, after a fashion, prove to be a disastrous repeat of the Soviet war there in the 1980s (which the CIA did so much to make far worse). And from that moment on, this country’s war-making only ramped up horrifically for what seemed like endless years.

It’s a story that TomDispatch read more