Author: David Swanson

Grab paper and pencil. Write down the numbers 1 through 10 and get ready to mark down next to them either “True” or “False.” Think I can trick you? Ten items follow. Which are true and which false? See the answers at the end.

1. The grandfather of the current leader of North Korea, the guy who ruled over North Korea from 1945 to 1994, was more of a Presbyterian than a Communist. Kim Il Sung was raised in a Christian community created by U.S. missionaries, was a Sunday School teacher and church organist, and leader of a Christian youth group. Kim Il Sung did not turn against Christianity so much as choose to himself play the role of Jesus in the story. He changed his name to take the name of a mythical read more

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By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, August 26, 2026

When important, serious, respectable people wouldn’t even mention that AIDS was killing on a major scale, their silence meant that not enough would be done to stop it.

I bring this up because Trump wants Congress to put 77.66% of federal discretionary spending into wars, and the vast majority, if not every single member, of Congress has read more

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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