War Is A Crime

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I’ve only shot a gun once in my life. When I went to camp as a kid, there was a rifle range and, at age 12 or 13, I shot 22s at a target. And I’ve only had a gun in an apartment I lived in once. When my father, a World War II veteran, died in 1983, I spent time in the New York apartment my parents had moved to after I went off to college. I began cleaning out his closet read more

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Trumped!
The President of No Return on a Hothouse Planet

By Tom Engelhardt

I grew up with a vision of a possible instant apocalypse, inspired (if, under the circumstances, such a word can even be used) by the nuclear obliteration of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War II. It could happen at any moment, even if you were “ read more

The latest location where Trump has given the orders to murder people is Iran.

Remember a couple of months back when establishment U.S. lawyers and human rights groups were admitting that Trump’s attacks on boats in the Caribbean and Pacific were nothing other than murder?

Murder doesn’t cease being murder because it’s further away or grander or provokes a more dramatic response or targets victims who speak a different language.

By all means hunt in the Epstein files for evidence of Trump raping read more

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Yes, in our world, MAGA (Make America Great Again) and Donald Trump are distinctly one and the same. They fused so long ago that no one ever really thinks much about that “again” anymore. And yet, it might be Donald Trump’s greatest confession (as well as an explanation for how he came to power). read more

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Yes, I can remember playing Canasta with my grandma. That was “cards” in my childhood. And when I was an editor in publishing, I actually had a little card with my name, position, and address on it that I could give out to potential authors (or, I guess, whomever). But in those years, if you had ever told me about the “cards” that read more

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Last year, ICE raids in my hometown, New York City, attracted significant protests, which, remarkably enough, seemed to halt their operations (though some demonstrators were indeed read more

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By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, February 20, 2026

I’m on a U.S. delegation to Venezuela. We arrived Friday.

Less than two months ago, the U.S. government bombed this place, sending missiles and a huge number of planes and helicopters into Caracas, and kidnapped the president and his wife. Ships and a submarine are still nearby. Every few days we read about the crew of another Venezuelan boat being murdered. A blockade is in place, as is one on Cuba. Yet attention passes on to newer catastrophes read more

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Eighty-five seconds. I more or less used up that much time just writing these two sentences. And yet that’s all the time that’s now left on the Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists before reaching a “midnight” read more