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By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, March 16, 2025

I know, I know, foreign military bases are spreading like a disease, and governments are openly mocking the rule of law.

But it’s hard to aim without a target. So, I’ve drafted a target.

This is a quick initial draft of something that, if it ever comes to be, will no doubt be improved and worsened by many voices. Please start that process, especially the improving part, by adding comments ​here

Treaty on the Prohibition of Foreign Military Bases and Forces

The States Parties to this Treaty,

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By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, March 15, 2025

Allies in Europe asked me for a few words from the United States on challenges for peace in these trumpy times. Here they are.

The challenges in working for peace in the United States and the world, during Trump times, are mostly what they already were: overcoming a corrupt communications and education system to inform people of the necessity and possibility of peace, and overcoming corrupt governments to shut down the war machine. But the war machine read more

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It’s a distinctly strange — in fact, that’s far too mild a word for it — moment in these (dis-)United States of America. Donald Trump is in power (big time) and his buddy (until he’s not) Elon Musk is going wild, trying to fire government employees read more

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It’s rare for me to say that I could see it coming. Still, on Donald Trump’s decision to use the U.S. military base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in his mad campaign to take the very words “immigrant” and “immigration” out of the American lexicon, I must admit that I did exactly that. When TomDispatch read more

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Today, in dealing with Donald Trump’s horrific, increasingly militarized actions toward migrants in this country, TomDispatch read more

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, March 8, 2025

According to Columbia Magazine, published by Columbia University’s Office of Alumni and Development, but ultimately named for a brutal imperialist mercenary, in 1933 while Nazis in Germany were burning books by Jews, Columbia’s president — and future Nobel Peace Prize recipient — Nicholas Murray Butler “welcomed Hans Luther, the German read more

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, March 7, 2025

It’s with a very heavy heart that I watch Europe imitate the militarism of the United States, moving massive resources from human and environmental needs to weapons, celebrating proposals from good liberal civic groups to steal money from Russia and dump it into more weapons, cutting deals to have the ingredients for more weapons dug out of your soil by a distant empire that routinely spits on your head, moving nuclear weapons around and across read more

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As a boy, I can still remember going to the Donnell Library just off 53rd Street and Fifth Avenue in New York City and heading home with science fiction novels under my arm. Though in my young life I never traveled far, in my mind, thanks to those books, I was a planetary journeyman. Jules Verne took me read more