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By StoptheWarCoalition, July 19, 2024
NATO’s 75th anniversary summit was dominated by calls to ramp up military spending and escalate military backing for Ukraine. Earlier this week Stop the War and CND hosted key activists and experts to explain how this Washington war summit can only heighten tensions from Eastern
By David Swanson, July 16, 2024
Remarks on Stop the War Coalition webinar July 16, 2024
After someone shot Donald Trump, Joe Biden said, indignantly, “we resolve our differences at the ballot,” which is classic propaganda, taking something obviously true (namely: it’s evil to shoot people) and using it to make seem true something obviously false (namely: you can use a ballot in a U.S. election to choose policies you support and have them enacted). When Trump and Biden debated, they debated
By Robert Scheer, Scheer Intelligence, July 12, 2024
The 75th anniversary celebrating the creation of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, creates an opportunity for those in the war machine to double down their commitment to war and for peace advocates to amplify their calls for non-violence. David Swanson, co-founder and executive director of World
Book Event with the three authors of two books: Medea Benjamin and David Swanson with their book NATO What You Need to Know, and Sevim Dagdelen with her book Die NATO: Eine Abrechnung mit dem Wertebündnis. Recorded at BUSBOYS & POETS restaurant, Washington, DC., July 9, 2024. Video by Sue Udry. Moderators of Event: Ann Wright and Andy Shallal. Includes music by
Remarks at http://nonatoyespeace.org
The NATO of the popular imagination is an assembly of representatives of democratic nations who commit to making the world more peaceful, including by militarily defending each other if one of them is attacked. There could hardly exist a more grave collection of lies. NATO is in fact an institution devoted primarily to the increased sale of weaponry to governments of every type — neither its members nor its often openly dictatorial partners acting at the bidding
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, July 5, 2024
In Washington, D.C., on Friday the convention center looked like this:
But nearby in Busboys and Poets restaurant, the scene looked like this:
Here’s what it sounded like:
These fine people were in town to unwelcome NATO! See https://nonatoyespeace.org
Some of them had walked to Washington from Maine! See: https://peacewalk2024.org
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, July 5, 2024
They walked form Maine and arrived in Washington, D.C., today in unbearable heat. See: https://peacewalk2024.org
The first order of business was blocking K Street.
Then on to the White House:
Tarak Kauff commented on why he had walked so far:
Ben Grosscup gave them a welcoming song:
We’re all preparing to unwelcome NATO to Washington. See: https://nonatoyespeace.org
By Yves Engler, July 5, 2024
On the eve of NATO’s 75-year anniversary celebration in Washington DC, the co-author of NATO: What You Need To Know joined Talking Foreign Policy: an internationalist perspective on Canadian foreign policy. Yves talks about Canada’s role in NATO and David Swanson details how the alliance launches wars of aggression and promotes arms sales.
“Despite the fact that deterrence remains an article of faith among the ‘realists’ who have orchestrated U.S. strategic policy and who continue to do so, despite its incoherence and instability, much of this faith is lip service only, analogous to deeply religious individuals who profess belief in heaven, yet rarely rejoice when a loved one dies. Thus, if the U.S. government really believed in nuclear deterrence — or in the billions of dollars spent on Ballistic Missile