A blog about a criminal enterprise
The Columbus Free Press Annual Awards Dinner
5:00 – 8:00 p.m.
The Vanderelli Room, 218 McDowell St, Columbus, OH 43215
Free – all are welcome
Featuring peace activist David Swanson on “War Abolition and the Ukraine Problem”
Honoring local community activists:
2024 Free Press “Libby” Award for lifetime achievement in Community Activism – Cynthia Brown of the Ohio Coalition to End Qualified Immunity
2024 Free Press Activist Artist Award –
AUDIO:
Talk World Radio is recorded on Zoom.
Here is this week’s video and all the videos on Youtube.
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, October 6, 2023
Many years ago, it occurred to me to try teaching foreign policy in preschool.
In a typical preschool, anywhere on Earth, when children have disputes, there can be pushing, shoving, crying, screaming, and all sorts of unpleasantness. The teacher cannot always know what happened from the beginning. He or she may only see the ending. The general theory is that first one must stop any physical altercation, next comfort each child, and finally —
The Nobel Committee has yet again awarded a peace prize that violates the will of Alfred Nobel and the purpose for which the prize was created, selecting a recipient who blatantly is not “the person who has done the most or best to advance fellowship among nations, the abolition or reduction of standing armies, and the establishment and promotion of peace congresses.”
There is no question that advocating for human rights is a good thing, or that doing so under an oppressive government is a
I’ve previously reviewed a number of pro-war books including Christopher Coker’s Why War, Margaret MacMillan’s War: How Conflict Shaped Us, Ian Morris’s War: What Is It Good For?, and Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Accessory
Here’s a new response to a 1930s propaganda movie about the glories of the Monroe Doctrine.
AUDIO:
Talk World Radio is recorded on Zoom.
Here is this week’s video and all the videos on Youtube.
By World BEYOND War, October 2, 2023
First published by Pressenza.
In this 1.5 hour friendly debate, moderated by Marcy Winograd (coordinator of CODEPINK Congress and co-chair of the Peace in Ukraine Coalition), we hear 3 perspectives debated: 1) Russia had no choice but to invade Ukraine, argued by former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, 2) Ukraine had no
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, September 27, 2023
Remarks in Charlottesville, Va — Video here.
War and peace could be a very simple issue. We make it very complicated. People say and do things that I simultaneously want to cheer for and condemn.
This week Senator Rand Paul said he wants to stop supporting Ukraine in order to support the United States. The phrase “support Ukraine” is shorthand for fueling a war that is destroying Ukraine, damaging the world, and threatening nuclear apocalypse.