Author: David Swanson

By David Swanson, July 16, 2024
Remarks on Stop the War Coalition webinar July 16, 2024

After someone shot Donald Trump, Joe Biden said, indignantly, “we resolve our differences at the ballot,” which is classic propaganda, taking something obviously true (namely: it’s evil to shoot people) and using it to make seem true something obviously false (namely: you can use a ballot in a U.S. election to choose policies you support and have them enacted). When Trump and Biden debated, they debated read more

By Robert Scheer, Scheer Intelligence, July 12, 2024

The 75th anniversary celebrating the creation of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, creates an opportunity for those in the war machine to double down their commitment to war and for peace advocates to amplify their calls for non-violence. David Swanson, co-founder and executive director of World read more

Book Event with the three authors of two books: Medea Benjamin and David Swanson with their book NATO What You Need to Know, and Sevim Dagdelen with her book Die NATO: Eine Abrechnung mit dem Wertebündnis. Recorded at BUSBOYS & POETS restaurant, Washington, DC., July 9, 2024. Video by Sue Udry. Moderators of Event: Ann Wright and Andy Shallal. Includes music by read more

Remarks at http://nonatoyespeace.org

The NATO of the popular imagination is an assembly of representatives of democratic nations who commit to making the world more peaceful, including by militarily defending each other if one of them is attacked. There could hardly exist a more grave collection of lies. NATO is in fact an institution devoted primarily to the increased sale of weaponry to governments of every type — neither its members nor its often openly dictatorial partners acting at the bidding read more

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, July 5, 2024

In Washington, D.C., on Friday the convention center looked like this:

But nearby in Busboys and Poets restaurant, the scene looked like this:

Here’s what it sounded like:

These fine people were in town to unwelcome NATO! See https://nonatoyespeace.org

Some of them had walked to Washington from Maine! See: https://peacewalk2024.org

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, July 5, 2024

They walked form Maine and arrived in Washington, D.C., today in unbearable heat. See: https://peacewalk2024.org

The first order of business was blocking K Street.

Then on to the White House:

Tarak Kauff commented on why he had walked so far:

Ben Grosscup gave them a welcoming song:

We’re all preparing to unwelcome NATO to Washington. See: https://nonatoyespeace.org

By Yves Engler, July 5, 2024

On the eve of NATO’s 75-year anniversary celebration in Washington DC, the co-author of NATO: What You Need To Know joined Talking Foreign Policy: an internationalist perspective on Canadian foreign policy. Yves talks about Canada’s role in NATO and David Swanson details how the alliance launches wars of aggression and promotes arms sales. read more

“Despite the fact that deterrence remains an article of faith among the ‘realists’ who have orchestrated U.S. strategic policy and who continue to do so, despite its incoherence and instability, much of this faith is lip service only, analogous to deeply religious individuals who profess belief in heaven, yet rarely rejoice when a loved one dies. Thus, if the U.S. government really believed in nuclear deterrence — or in the billions of dollars spent on Ballistic Missile read more

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