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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
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Give Donald Trump credit. He may be the ultimate destroyer of an imperial power. I’m thinking, of course, of the United States. After all, he’s in the process of turning climate change — oops, sorry, that “hoax,” that “
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
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Honestly, it’s hard even to take in. I’m thinking about a strip of land only about 25 miles long, parts of which are less than four miles wide, that once upon a time (not so very long ago) was one of the most densely populated places
Although the world is experiencing severe global crises, there are new efforts underway to create a more effective means of coping with them.
The crises are clear enough. They include vast slaughter in horrific wars, worldwide climate catastrophe, massive population displacement, and deepening poverty.
Moreover, these disastrous situations are likely to worsen in coming years. Modern wars are fought with increasingly devastating weapons, and preparations for nuclear war have escalated to the
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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
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Trump’s Greatest Skill Creating a New East Wing of Heaven, While Sending the Rest of Us to Hell in a Handbasket ByWhen I began TomDispatch in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and the invasion of Afghanistan, believe me, the world did not look good. But I guarantee you one thing: if you had told me then that, almost a quarter of a century later, the president of the United States would be Donald J. Trump (and had explained to me just who he was), I would have thought you an idiot first
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Donald Trump remains a mystery man of some eerie sort. After all, just ask yourself, why in the world did he only recently announce that this country was going to “immediately” resume nuclear