VIDEO: NATO Says It’s For the Rule of Law, and Other Absurdities
By Muslim News, March 25, 2022
When Backing War Is the Only Sane Position, Leave the Asylum
By David Swanson
If you find yourself in a room, zoom, plaza, or planet in which only more war is considered a sane policy, check quickly for two things: which inmates are in charge, and are there any open windows handy. You may have to make the case for turning the place upside-down from within it, but you’ll have to figure out a way to get yourself considered sane first.
Logically, there are two basic things you can do with a war, continue it or end it. Typically you end it by negotiating an
Supporting Wars But Not Militaries
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, March 22, 2022
I’ve just become aware of and read the 2020 book by Ned Dobos, Ethics, Security, and The War-Machine: The True Cost of the Military. It makes a pretty strong case for the abolition of militaries, even while concluding that it may or may not have done so, that the matter should be taken on a case-by-case basis.
Dobos sets aside the question of whether any war can be justified, arguing instead that “there may be cases where the costs and
Talk World Radio: Hassan El-Tayyab: Stop Waging War on Yemen
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This week on Talk World Radio we’re discussing the war on Yemen with Hassan El-Tayyab, the legislative director for Middle East policy at the Friends Committee on National Legislation. Prior to joining FCNL in August 2019, Hassan El-Tayyab was co-director of the national advocacy group Just
Ending Slavery in Washington DC and War in Ukraine
Last week I spoke to a very smart class of high school seniors in Washington DC. They knew more and had better questions for me than your average group at any age. But when I asked them to think of a war that was possibly justifiable, the first one somebody said was the U.S. Civil War. It later came out of course that at least some of them also thought Ukraine was justified in waging war right now. Yet, when I asked how slavery had been ended in Washington DC, not a single person in the room had
Per un Mondo Senza Guerra e Senza I Pensieri della Guerra / For a World BEYOND War and Beyond War Thinking
Di David Swanson, World BEYOND War, il 16 di marzo 2022
Il pericolo di un’apocalisse nucleare è più alto di quanto non lo sia mai stato. Non esisterebbe senza militari.
Il pericolo dell’apocalisse climatica è più alto di quanto non lo sia mai stato, se non è già garantito. Senza le forze armate sarebbe notevolmente diminuito e ci sarebbero finanziamenti quasi inimmaginabili con cui cercare di prevenirlo.
Ho pensieri molto affettuosi sull’Italia. È uno dei motivi per cui mi
Talk World Radio: Lee Camp on the Shutdown of RT America
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This week on Talk World Radio, Lee Camp. He was the host, head writer, & creator of “Redacted Tonight” for 8 years, until it was canceled due to U.S. sanctions. It was the only anti-war anti-corporate comedy show on U.S. TV. In the same week, Lee’s podcast “Moment of
30 Nonviolent Things Russia Could Have Done and 30 Nonviolent Things Ukraine Could Do
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, March 15, 2022
The war-or-nothing disease has a firm grip. People literally can’t imagine anything else — people on both sides of the same war.
Every time I suggest that Russia might have done anything nonviolent to resist NATO expansion and the militarization of its border or that Ukraine might do anything nonviolent right now, my inbox fills up in almost exactly equal measure with rather angry missives denouncing the idea that there was or is anything that
OMG, War Is Kind of Horrible
By David Swanson
For decades, the U.S. public seemed largely indifferent to most of the horrible suffering of war. The corporate media outlets mostly avoided it, made war look like a video game, occasionally mentioned suffering U.S. troops, and once in a blue moon touched on the deaths of a handful of local civilians as if their killing were some sort of aberration. The U.S. public funded and either cheered for or tolerated years and years of bloody wars, and came out managing to believe falsely