Author: David Swanson

By HR Conversations

A rigorous conversation with David Swanson exploring the contradictions of U.S. foreign policy, the mechanics of modern warfare, and the role of nonviolent activism in a world driven by military-industrial interests. The discussion navigates historical patterns, contemporary crises, and systemic challenges, offering insight into how power, propaganda, and policy intersect—and what it means for those committed to peace and justice.

AUDIO:

Talk World Radio is recorded on Zoom.

Here is this week’s video and all the videos on Youtube.

AUDIO:

Talk World Radio is recorded on Zoom.

Here is this week’s video and all the videos on Youtube.

Opening remarks of #NoWar2025

Good morning, afternoon, and evening. Thank you to everyone who is here and to all of the wonderful speakers and participants we are about to hear from over the next three days and to all of our staff and volunteers, especially Greta Zarro our Organizing Director, who have planned this conference. We expect over 500 registrants from at least 42 countries to hear from at least 33 speakers. We have 22 endorsers and 10 sponsors. Those sponsors include our top or War Abolisher read more

Kathryn Bigelow once worked with the CIA to make a movie widely criticized for dishonestly promoting torture and glorifying killing (Zero Dark Thirty). (She has also explicitly advocated for war making.) Now she has made a movie highlighting the danger of nuclear apocalypse (A House of Dynamite). I know which film I would prefer for you to see. It’s on Netflix.

Netflix has a show called The Diplomat that supports false flag attacks, destructive fossil fuel extraction, government secrecy, read more

Trump is murdering the occupants of boats in distant waters. The problem is not that any memos his flacks may have written about it are secret, as Jameel Jaffer wrote in Thursday’s New York Times. Ever since Rosa read more

AUDIO:

Talk World Radio is recorded on Zoom.

Here is this week’s video and all the videos on Youtube.

I want to share a few photos of Saturday’s No Kings event in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Yes, to the critics, I share your concerns. These things are full of more U.S. flags than a Trump rally, and stacks and stacks of signs promoting patriotism, and a whole forest of signs telling people to do nothing for years and then “Vote!” — an absurdity that I don’t think you could find in any other country.

Yes, you’re right, there is no plan for escalation or disruption or strategic direct action read more

Monday was Indigenous People’s Day, when much of the United States celebrates a murdering, enslaving, profiteering, imperialist Italian sailor mercenary and missionary who couldn’t tell one continent from another, wisdom from ignorance, or value from waste.

I was born and raised and have mostly lived in the eastern United States, and yet when I hear someone here refer to “how people lived several hundred years ago,” they almost always mean how people lived in Europe several read more

AUDIO:

Talk World Radio is recorded on Zoom.

Here is this week’s video and all the videos on Youtube.