Author: David Swanson

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Trump is openly threatening war on Venezuela in blatant violation of the United Nations Charter, and has already for nearly three months been openly murdering everyone aboard numerous boats — a crime whether it’s murder or whether it’s war. The utter absence of the most basic morality from U.S. journalism is to be found in the worries over whether these murders are war, whether the possible war is approved by Congress, and whether a double-tap murder of two out of eleven people read more

In 2010, I wrote a book called War Is A Lie, with an updated edition in 2016. If I’m lucky and find time — and maybe if they ease up on the wars for a little while — I’ll get a new version out in 2026. But I can already apply the basic idea of the book to the threatened war on Venezuela.

The argument in the book is, of course, not that wars aren’t real, but rather that nothing that is commonly said to justify them is true. The book begins thus:

“Not a single read more

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By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, November 20, 2025

A U.S. federal judge ruled Thursday that members of the so-called National Guard occupying Washington, D.C., do so only by obeying illegal orders. At Nuremberg, the U.S. and its allies tried and convicted Nazis despite their defense that they had been obeying orders, and despite some of the crimes having been invented after the fact for the prosecution.

On Tuesday, a group of Congress Members who had all “served” in the war machine published read more

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Ah, those were the days. The UN had been blocked by a worldwide popular movement from approving of a war on Iraq. British Prime Minister Tony Blair had dragged the UK along after secretly demanding that George W. Bush first attack Afghanistan, because Blair believed he would be better able to sell a war on Iraq once there was a war on Afghanistan. And once the destruction of Iraq was well underway, the UN crept out of some New York sewer pipe to support the occupation, er, excuse me, the peaceful read more

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By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, November 6, 2025

Trick question!

If you can still count your victims, you’re not worthy.

And the competition is mounting.

The Nobel Peace Prize is going to a Venezuelan advocate for deadly sanctions against — and an invasion of — Venezuela.

Meanwhile, a German advocate for escalating the war in Ukraine and thereby the risk of nuclear apocalypse is the winner of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.

I know what you’re thinking. That’s read more

By Hudson Mohawk Magazine, November 5, 2025

As the threat of nuclear war continues to increase, President Trump says he plans to start testing nuclear weapons. He is also escalating his threats to Venezuela, sending a large naval force there as he kills people in boats that he claims are part of the drug trade. David Swanson of World BEYOND War discusses various peace issues with Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.