Author: David Swanson

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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By Global Connections Television, June 30, 2024

David Swanson, author, activist, journalist, and radio host, is executive director of WorldBeyondWar.org and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org. His latest book is: “NATO: What You Need to Know.” NATO, which is approaching its 75th Anniversary, is not the UN or a stand-alone nation. Swanson suggest that NATO not pursue destructive read more

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, June 27, 2024

South by Southwest (SXSW) is an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences organized jointly that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas. It has been growing in size since 1987. The festivals just dumped weapons makers and the U.S. Army out the door: “After careful consideration, read more

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, June 18, 2024

Of course, millions of people all over the world and in the United States support either Israeli or Hamas warmaking — warmaking which (one must point out the obvious because the very topic of warmaking renders so many people mentally dull) is on a very different scale and of a very different type, one from the other. At the moment, I’m not writing to any of those war supporters.

What interests me is that for a huge number of people, for several read more

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By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, June 9, 2024

Here’s a list produced by a Ukrainian group with limited knowledge of the United States, a group that is listed as an “Implementing Partner” of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)’s Transparency and Accountability in Public Administration and Services (TAPAS) Project.

I find it unfortunate to read my name on a list of supposed opponents of something good for Ukraine, because I wish everyone in Ukraine peace, safety, freedom, read more