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The Military Is the Extremism
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, January 3, 2024
According to a headline in The Hill newspaper, which takes a position typical of U.S. corporate media, “New Year’s attacks fuel fears of extremism in military.”
In other words, an institution openly dedicated to mass killing and destruction may have fallen victim to infiltration by “extremists.” As if there could be something more extreme than a military.
The reason for this approach is that two U.S. military veterans attempted mass murders
Talk World Radio: U.S. Government Funds Other Nations’ Militaries More Than It Funds Climate Protection
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The Trump Five Percent
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, December 28, 2024
When Donald Trump again warms the throne in Washington on Martin Luther King Day, each of the three evils that King worked to abolish will get a major boost: racism, extreme materialism, and militarism.
Racism
While Trumplickers post-election propose recruiting abroad certain highly educated potential immigrants (and defunding and further destroying U.S. education — including by writing racism — not to mention critical thinking — out of
Talk World Radio: Al Mytty on Acting for Peace
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We Are One-Quarter Through War’s Last Century
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, December 19, 2024
In thousands of movies and tv shows, a future is imagined in which full-grown adult humans with less self-control than toddlers both get into fist fights at the drop of a hat and possess the technology to obliterate entire cities or planets at the touch of a button. The fantasy of living in outerspace certainly does not help us preserve the one place we know how to live. But the most damaging fantasy here is that of maintaining widespread acceptance
Talk World Radio: The Green New Deal From Below
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It’s Time to De-Normalize Murder
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, December 13, 2024
Remarks at December 13 Online U.S.-Iran Town Hall
I was asked to talk about Gaza and Syria, and so I shall, but I also want to talk about de-normalizing murder. There have been human societies in which murder was unthinkable, where the most typical Hollywood movie — marketed to U.S. children — has been seen as horrific and traumatizing. Normalizing murder is an option, not required by genes or economics or physics. I want us to take responsibility
Talk World Radio: Kathy Kelly on Ending Wars in Western Asia
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The U.S. Congress Pretends to Exist
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, December 4, 2024
Whether you object to genocide or internalize every scrap of Israeli propaganda, there isn’t any way in ordinary English to dispute that each shipment of weapons from the United States to Israel, whether given or sold, violates numerous U.S. laws, including the Foreign Assistance Act, the Arms Export Control Act, the Conventional Arms Transfer