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By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, February 6, 2025
The documentary film The Bibi Files, begins with and is named for and for a long time focuses on leaked videos from the prosecution of Netanyahu for corruption. Through much of the film my thoughts were of Al Capone — of getting a killer on tax fraud. Do I really want to watch footage of an obnoxious sociopath when that’s the majority of U.S. news every day, and do
By David Swanson, February 4, 2025
A remarkable film called Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat is up for a possible Oscar for best documentary this year. I’ve seen none of the other four nominees, but have intentionally avoided seeing one of them, which appears from the advertisements to be a disgusting piece of propaganda in support of war in Ukraine. In contrast, Soundtrack is an exposure
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Head of NATO Tells European Union to Move Money from Healthcare and Retirement to War:
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, January 30, 2025
Remarks at the Sixth International Conference for World Balance in Havana, Cuba, Jan. 30, 2025
Before I start I want to express sympathy for the people who have died in a plane crash in Washington, and I want to condemn Trump’s disgusting proposal to kidnap people and lock them up in Guantanamo.
I’m very happy to be in Cuba. I feel closer to Cuba than I do to people in the United States with red hats reading MAGA. Cuba is,
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By World BEYOND War, January 22, 2025
What’s wrong with military bases and what can be done about them?
The Earth is coated in military bases, spreading like a pandemic, foriegn ones, domestic ones, famous ones, secret ones, part of a growing and disastrous global increase in spending on wars and preparations for wars that makes wars more, not less, likely. And prime targets in wars are bases and anything near them.
Bases are many of the worst environmental disaster sites, polluting air,
An imperial presidency, a cult of idiocracy, and a team of hateful oligarchs is the problem.
A salute is just a symbol.
If you do a web search for images of “Bellamy salute” you find countless black-and-white photographs of U.S. children and adults with their right arms raised stiffly out in front of them in what will strike most people as a Nazi salute. From the early 1890s through 1942 the United States used the Bellamy salute to accompany the words written by Francis Bellamy and known as
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By David Swanson, Progressive Hub, January 21, 2025
I hope everyone in the world reads the new book Another World Is Possible: Lessons for America from Around the Globe by Natasha Hakimi Zapata. I think the lessons could be for anywhere on Earth. They are stories of what is possible for the United States (or in some cases a single state thereof) or most anywhere else. But they are also stories of what is already real in certain parts of the world.
To some limited and shrinking extent, states within