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Recently the least popular person alive said, “I didn’t guarantee no war. Why would I have built the strongest military in the world?”
Already unpopular with kind and decent people, Trump may have — with that comment — tanked his popularity with every weapons company public relations hack on Earth. Their most deeply held pretense has always been that military spending isn’t needed for wars but rather to prevent wars.
Of course, Trump promised not to start any
Remarks from a webinar about the Peace Manifesto.
Hi. This is David Swanson and I’m speaking as Executive Director of World BEYOND War. I’m honored to be a part of celebrating one year of the peace manifesto that people can find and promote at activatingpeace.org.
Maybe celebrating is the wrong word and recommitting is the right one. I am still sick and tired of the culture of war and supportive of a culture of peace. If it’s OK, I’ll tell you a bit about what I mean by that.
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Once Upon a Time (and Not Any Time Either!)
My Strange Tale of How the War on Terror Came Home in the Age of Donald J. Trump
Okay, here’s what this old man remembers nearly a quarter of a century later.
I was living in New York City (as I still am) when, on September 11, 2001, two hijacked planes full of passengers
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Yes, the decline of empires has long been as much a part of history, and often as dramatic, as their rise. However, Trump-style decline should, I think, still be seen as a rarity in the history of empires. Though he’s seldom written about this way, Donald J. Trump is quite literally the personification of American imperial decline. In truth, he’s acting it out in an all
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From torture to wars of so many kinds, cruelty seems to have been an essential trait of American ruling groups in this century and Donald Trump has been anything but an exception. He’s
One of the curious ironies of our time is that, although many politicians spout heated nationalist rhetoric, rail against foreign nations, and belittle international cooperation, this approach to international affairs is not at all what most people want.
The climate of aggressive nationalism is clear enough. In nations around the globe, demagogues (usually of a rightwing variety) whip up xenophobia, preach superpatriotism, demand vast military buildups, and―if holding public office―often
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Imagine this: as the Costs of War Project recently reported, Donald Trump’s bizarre war in Iran, in part by closing the Strait of Hormuz, has already cost every American family on average more than $300 (and those
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Consider it strange. As a boy, I couldn’t have been more of a sports fan and the Brooklyn Dodgers were my special baseball team. (I could probably still tell you, position by position, the starting lineup of the 1956 Dodgers.) I remained a fervent fan when they left for Los Angeles and, a few years later in 1962, my first year in college, the New York Mets came to town. And
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Hey, at a moment when Donald Trump has gone to war with Iran, this country has a secretary of defense — oops, my mistake! — of war who, in the past, has called for nothing