War Is A Crime

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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

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The Apocalyptic President
The Personification of an Imperial Power (and Planet) in Decline

By Tom Engelhardt

Once upon a time, if you had described Donald Trump’s America to me (the second time around), I would have thought you mad as Alice in Wonderland‘s read more

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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