War Is A Crime

Tied up with the apparently very longstanding tradition of claiming that all opponents of atrocities are purely engaged in what has recently been called “virtue signaling” is the idea that only certain types of people are qualified to protest certain things — or to ever say or do anything decent at all.

By David Swanson, Progressive Hub, February 13, 2026

Columbia University professor Bruce Robbins exposed his students to possible criticism of the Israeli military, and was for that reason read more

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It’s already obvious enough that the military kidnapping of Venezuela’s president was just the beginning. Now, as part of his Donroe Doctrine in this hemisphere, President Trump is not just trying to read more

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Sometimes, in this strange world of ours, I wonder where I would be today if Donald J. Trump had been president when, as my Aunt Hilda wrote me so many years ago, “Your great-grandfather, Moore Engelhardt, a boy of 16, arrived in New York from Europe in March 1888.” He took that “Moore” as his first name later in life but it was probably “Moishe” on arrival. “It read more

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Consider me an A-bomb baby. I was just a year old when, in the war my father had been part of, my country dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, devastating those two cities and killing more than 200,000 people, including read more

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Normally, when one develops all the symptoms of a disease, the response ought not to be exacerbating the disease, but seeking to cure it. Approaches to healthcare in the United States have gone off the rails, of course, but think about the disease of military spending.

What are some of the symptoms we’ve suffered recently? Wars, bombings, threats of wars, kidnappings of foreign presidents, arming of distant genocides, attempts to take over or control various countries, hatred, resentment, terrorism, read more

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At the moment I began writing this introduction, ICE agents had just shot Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old White man — an intensive care unit nurse, in fact — in Minneapolis. He was carrying in his hand — no, not a gun, but a phone. In a sense, Minneapolis is, for ICE, if not the U.S. military, the Afghanistan of this moment. In the Trump era, there’s no need to go thousands read more

Speaking Truth to Empire on KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno, Dan Yaseen interviews Gloria La Riva, a socialist activist who has run for political offices multiple times on the platforms of the Workers World Party, the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the Peace and Freedom Party.
They discuss Trump’s attack on Venezuela and its aftermath; the Cuban and Bolivarian Revolutions.

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How strange and deeply uncomfortable to think that, should he last, we will have (at least) three (3!) more years of Donald Trump as president of the United States. Honestly, I can barely imagine what that might mean. After all, every extra day of him — or rather him — is eye-blinkingly strange. For instance, it’s true that, while at the World Economic Forum read more