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By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, February 14, 2024

How can media outlets be taken seriously — and I do not mean this rhetorically — when they shout that two hostages have been freed while adding in the fine print that several dozen mere Palestinians have been killed in the process, when they propose that a city of starving refugees be bombed in a manner that “protects civilians,” when they equate fueling wars with “aid”?

One part of the answer is that they feature raging debates between read more

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Consider it the bleakest of all-American miracles. The latest NBC News poll has Donald Trump’s lead over Joe Biden in a projected 2024 presidential contest growing to 5% (47% to 42%). Of course, read more

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What would George Orwell think 39 years after that nightmarish title year of his passed us by? Like so many of my friends, I read his novel 1984 in my teens and never forgot “Big Brother” or phrases like “doublethink” that still have a sad applicability in today’s world. I mention this because I noticed recently that, among the read more

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Consider this strange: Seventy-eight years after the first and only nuclear weapons were used on Planet Earth, anyone with half a brain knows that a nuclear war would be an incomparable disaster for this planet and everyone living on it. So, remind me, why the endless nuclear pantomime?

Why, as last year wound down, for instance, did the U.S. decide to read more

In this video, David Swanson discusses with Michigan Peace Council how to build a local peace group.

Michigan Peace Council is here: https://michiganpeacecouncil.org

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The Last Superpower? And the Longest Paragraph By Tom Engelhardt

I was born on July 20, 1944, almost two years after Joe Biden arrived on this planet and almost a year before You Know Who, like me, landed in New York City. The United States was then nearing the end of the second global war of that century and things were about to look up. My dad had been the operations officer for the 1st Air Commandos fighting the Japanese in Burma and, read more

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Imagine this: once there were just two of them produced by a single country, the United States. I’m thinking, of course, of the atomic bombs dropped with such devastating effect on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War II. Now, there are roughly read more

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Yep, you guessed it! Donald Trump’s solution to the drug crisis in America is to institute a death penalty for drug dealers. Hey, it’s how they do it in China, right, so why not read more