A blog about a criminal enterprise
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, April 4, 2024
Remarks at Neutrality Congress, held April 4-6 2024 at Congress of the Republic of Colombia, Bógota, Colombia
NOT NEUTRALITY ON EVERYTHING
The brilliant and wonderful late U.S. historian Howard Zinn wrote that you cannot be neutral on a moving train. We all agree, I’m sure, that in the face of injustice, one should not be neutral, that silence and inaction are means of supporting those committing wrongs, that as was said by the late Dr. Martin
The City of Charlottesville, Virginia, has nudged the state of Virginia and the United States in the right direction for a long time.
Having lived in the city since 2005 and in the area much longer, I’ve seen and been part of some of it, including by supporting these resolutions passed by the City Council:
For Clean Elections (2012)
No War on Iran (2012 and 2020) — that first one was a U.S. first that inspired others.
On Monday evening, the City Council of Charlottesville passed a ceasefire in Gaza resolution by a vote of 3 to 1 with 1 abstention, after having voted it down two weeks prior by a vote of 2 to 3. The difference was Council Member Brian Pinkston, to his credit, having the decency to change his mind. Unchanged was the public pressure, as people were committed to fill every council meeting until they got
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As World BEYOND War is steadily reporting on, the U.S. military is constantly adding more military bases outside the borders of the United States, and sometimes being blocked in its plans, and sometimes being ordered to leave.
With the help of numerous informants around the globe, World BEYOND War is tracking the ever-changing global archipelago of U.S. military outposts with an online tool that allows you to spin the globe, zoom in on a base, and see images and information about it.
We’ve also
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More information and what to do about it: https://nonatoyespeace.org
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, March 20, 2024
The first reason I’d like the United States to drop the whole ordeal of changing clocks twice a year is that it causes endless confusion and missed meetings for groups, organizations, and events that are not contained within the little 4% of humanity that lives in the United States. To make cross-border zoom meetings work, you have to either get people in the United States to learn what Coordinated Universal Time is, or make 96% of the world
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Monday night (video here), three of five City Council Members in Charlottesville, Virginia, voted No on a resolution (in agenda packet here) in support of a ceasefire in Gaza.
Council Members Michael Payne and Natalie Oschrin put the resolution on the agenda and spoke well in support of it.
But Council Members Lloyd Snook, Brian Pinkston, and Juandiego Wade voted No.
Snook claimed to have no competence in foreign policy, spreading what is a pernicious idea in a supposedly self-governing land, namely