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Trumped
Going to Hell in a “Drill, Baby, Drill” Handbasket
Give him credit. As a start, for that first surprise victory in 2016.
No, I didn’t fully get it at the time, but I kind of get it now (since, like the rest of us, I’ve lived through it all, including his close loss in 2020). Still, twice? Him? A
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By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, December 2, 2024
As a resident of the most flamboyantly hypocritical and war-crazed nation on Earth, the United States of Armaments, I find it weirdly encouraging when one of the U.S. military’s many vassals and sidekicks goes above and beyond, trying out new forms of abuse that I haven’t encountered here. Of course, I find such actions awful and often horrific — particularly if we’re talking about new forms of surveillance and torture
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, December 2, 2024
Thousands of civic-minded people have been voluntarily helping out the not-yet-extant pseudo-government agency named after the ruler of not-yet-sunk Venice: the DOGE.
On a convenient webpage they are signing a petition and sending tweets to billionaire efficiency-creator Elon Musk. The petition reads:
To: Elon Musk at the Department of Government Efficiency
Here’s how to improve government efficiency and cut spending: Audit the Pentagon, stop
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Imagine this: at the moment I was writing this introduction, Donald (“grab ’em by the pussy“) Trump
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You wouldn’t know it anymore, but Donald Trump’s grandparents and mother were immigrants, as were two of his wives. And imagine this: if they all had arrived here early in 2025, just as their son or grandson
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, November 25, 2024
Netanyahu-free zones (ICC members) in blue. Source.
The International Criminal Court has taken an enormously important small step toward respectability and real internationalism by issuing arrest warrants for the very first time for war allies of the United States and Western militaries.
It took many, many inexcusable months for the prosecutor of the ICC to request the arrest warrants, and six more months for the court to issue them. The delays
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Let’s try to put recent political events in this country in perspective — if, that is, perspective is even a concept when it comes to Elon Musk and the word “billion,” no less “billionaire,” or the very idea of “the world’s wealthiest person” being, no surprise at all, Donald Trump’s big-money pal and (according to him, at least) “
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Count on one thing: On January 20, 2025, we will indeed find ourselves in a new world. And that new world won’t, I suspect, be all that familiar even to those of us who lived through the previous version of it from January 20, 2017, to perhaps
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, November 20, 2024
The United States just held a presidential election between two pro-war, militarist candidates, each of whom could have been expected to shift yet more funding into war preparations, to arm the genocide in Palestine, and to wage and threaten war with abandon. And yet peace was, as it often is, a deciding factor.
Many voters demanding peace were otherwise inclined to vote for Kamala Harris. Had she simply committed to ceasing to illegally arm