Author: David Swanson

I was happy to discuss Ukraine for an hour with Santita Jackson:

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I hate to say I told you so. It’s obnoxious really. But sometimes it is an important point. In this case the point is this: the people who are always right about wars were right about the war in Ukraine, whereas the “experts” who are always on television and in government were, as usual, wrong.

Which of the following statements about the war with Russia comes closest to your personal views?

• Ukraine should continue fighting until it wins the war
• Ukraine should seek to negotiate an ending to the war as soon as possible

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Did you know that the murders and rapes and free-for-all violent chaos in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina didn’t actually happen, and that the consistent pattern during major disasters is for people to go out of their way to help each other, for the news media to falsely report murder and mayhem, and for authorities who imagine most people are like themselves to send in armed troops to create a second disaster?

Did you know that the Lord of the Flies is a story made up by a disturbed read more

It’s oddly encouraging that the New York Post had to bring up its kookiest rightwing propagandist on Friday to argue that nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved lives. It’s almost as read more

This is the August 6, 2025 show posted early.

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Your average person, school teacher, or Wikipedia editor will tell you that we’ve long known what killed the dinosaurs millions of years before humans came around: an asteroid smashing into what is now Mexico.

The reality is that many geologists and other scientists have seriously doubted that explanation since it was first proposed in 1980, and an intense debate has raged ever since, with many arguing that such an impact, or even a large number of such impacts, probably played at most a bit read more

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By David Swanson, Progressive Hub, July 26, 2025

Polluted with dangerous, human-made chemicals.

So writes Mariah Blake in the preface to her important book, They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals. The United States is the place where she writes that every child is born pre-polluted, but I think merely because she’s writing about the United States, not because it isn’t also true of everywhere else on Earth. In fact, Blake quotes Rachel Carson as having read more

Is Donald Trump a strong leader? By what measure can his second term so far be deemed a success? Then there is the issue of America First. Trump hasn’t stopped foreign wars; he actually continues to fund them. And what about the Epstein files? Where is the transparency?

CrossTalking with David Swanson, Misty Winston, and Bryce Greene.