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By David Swanson, July 16, 2024
Remarks on Stop the War Coalition webinar July 16, 2024
After someone shot Donald Trump, Joe Biden said, indignantly, “we resolve our differences at the ballot,” which is classic propaganda, taking something obviously true (namely: it’s evil to shoot people) and using it to make seem true something obviously false (namely: you can use a ballot in a U.S. election to choose policies you support and have them enacted). When Trump and Biden debated, they debated
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From Gaza to the West Bank to the Israeli-Lebanese borderlands, it’s been a genuine nightmare. The devastation in Gaza remains surreal and almost impossible to take in. Housing, hospitals,
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For obvious reasons, the devastation of Gaza has gotten so much of the attention recently, but life, post-October 7th, has also been a nightmare on the West Bank. Among other things, the grotesquely right-wing Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has, as the Associated Press reported recently,
By Robert Scheer, Scheer Intelligence, July 12, 2024
The 75th anniversary celebrating the creation of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, creates an opportunity for those in the war machine to double down their commitment to war and for peace advocates to amplify their calls for non-violence. David Swanson, co-founder and executive director of World
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Think about it. Next time around, Donald Trump would essentially be able to do anything. Anything. As long, of course, as he’s president of these increasingly (dis-)United States. And for that version of reality, he can thank the Supreme Court, the very one he empowered with those three court selections of his. In its most recent presidential decision, that court
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For just a moment imagine Clarence Thomas — yes, Clarence T! — as the president of the United States. It’s a mad thought, right? Or is it? One thing is clear: the present Trumpian Supreme Court — and no, The Donald didn’t appoint Clarence Thomas, but he might as well have along with the three (in)justices he did put there — is taking
Book Event with the three authors of two books: Medea Benjamin and David Swanson with their book NATO What You Need to Know, and Sevim Dagdelen with her book Die NATO: Eine Abrechnung mit dem Wertebündnis. Recorded at BUSBOYS & POETS restaurant, Washington, DC., July 9, 2024. Video by Sue Udry. Moderators of Event: Ann Wright and Andy Shallal. Includes music by
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Consider it strangely (in)appropriate that, among the things Donald Trump and Joe Biden hardly discussed (including climate change) at their debate, they did face off over… yes, Afghanistan!
Remarks at http://nonatoyespeace.org
The NATO of the popular imagination is an assembly of representatives of democratic nations who commit to making the world more peaceful, including by militarily defending each other if one of them is attacked. There could hardly exist a more grave collection of lies. NATO is in fact an institution devoted primarily to the increased sale of weaponry to governments of every type — neither its members nor its often openly dictatorial partners acting at the bidding
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, July 5, 2024
In Washington, D.C., on Friday the convention center looked like this:
But nearby in Busboys and Poets restaurant, the scene looked like this:
Here’s what it sounded like:
These fine people were in town to unwelcome NATO! See https://nonatoyespeace.org
Some of them had walked to Washington from Maine! See: https://peacewalk2024.org