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Can War Be Both Reformed AND Abolished?
Photo of Kunduz Hospital in Afghanistan via The Intercept.
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, October 2, 2021
A recent article and a recent book have raised this familiar topic anew for me. The article is a super uninformed dud of a hatchet job on Michael Ratner by Samuel Moyn, who accuses Ratner of supporting war by trying to reform and humanize rather than end it. The critique is terribly weak because Ratner tried to prevent wars, end wars, AND reform wars. Ratner was at every antiwar event.
How to Prevent Terrorism
By David Swanson
Hi, this is David Swanson, executive director of World BEYOND War, campaign coordinator of RootsAction, and host of Talk World Radio. I was asked by the Association for Defending Victims of Terrorism for a video on foreign intervention and domination as an important factor in
Civic Initiative Save Sinjajevina to Receive the War Abolisher of 2021 Award
By World BEYOND War, September 27, 2021
Today, September 27, 2021, World BEYOND War announces as the recipient of the War Abolisher of 2021 Award: Civic Initiative Save Sinjajevina.
As already announced, the Lifetime Organizational War Abolisher Award of 2021 will be presented to Peace Boat, and the David Hartsough Lifetime Individual War Abolisher Award of 2021 will be presented to Mel Duncan.
An online presentation and acceptance event, with remarks from representatives of all three 2021 award
Talk World Radio: The Kaepernick Effect
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325 Organizations Propose Climate Solution You’ve Never Heard Of
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, September 23, 2021
Yesterday something that has become tiresomely routine happened; I spoke to a college class about the most obvious climate solution, and neither the students nor the professor had ever heard of it. The 325 organizations (and climbing) listed at the bottom of this article are promoting it, and have joined 17,717 individuals (thus far) in signing a petition for it at http://cop26.info
Many of us have been screaming about it at the tops of our
U.S. Media Obsessed With Smaller Two of Three Big Bills in Congress
The super unprecedentedly ginormous Building Back Better bill is widely advertised as costing $3.5 trillion – and I think we’d all love to hear just a few hundred more times how Senator Joe Manchin won’t stand for it, wouldn’t we? But that number is spread over 10 years. In 1 year it’s $0.35 trillion, otherwise known as $350 billion.
That bill is dependent on and determines what happens to the other of the two super important dramatic and Big-News bills you’ve heard about, namely the
Mel Duncan to Receive the David Hartsough Lifetime Individual War Abolisher of 2021 Award
By World BEYOND War, September 20, 2021
Today, September 20, 2021, World BEYOND War announces as the recipient of the David Hartsough Lifetime Individual War Abolisher of 2021 Award: Mel Duncan.
An online presentation and acceptance event, with remarks from representatives of all three 2021 award recipients will take place on October 6, 2021, at 5 a.m. Pacific Time, 8 a.m. Eastern Time, 2 p.m. Central European Time, and 9 p.m. Japan Standard Time. The event is open to the public and will include
Talk World Radio: Delmarie Cobb on Rahm Emanuel’s Nomination
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Talk World Radio: David Vine on U.S. Bases Everywhere
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