War Is A Crime

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Yes, once in the previous century, I actually visited the city of Hiroshima. I was an editor at Pantheon Books and had published a translation of a Japanese volume, Unforgettable Fire: Pictures Drawn by Atomic read more

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Yes, earlier this year, Donald Trump suggested that he might indeed run for a third term in office. “There are methods which you could do it,” he said, and when it came to considering the possibility, insisted he “was not joking.”

More recently, he’s read more

Trump is openly threatening war on Venezuela in blatant violation of the United Nations Charter, and has already for nearly three months been openly murdering everyone aboard numerous boats — a crime whether it’s murder or whether it’s war. The utter absence of the most basic morality from U.S. journalism is to be found in the worries over whether these murders are war, whether the possible war is approved by Congress, and whether a double-tap murder of two out of eleven people read more

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Donald Trump’s America was absent in every way imaginable. I’m thinking of this year’s crucial U.N. Climate Change Conference in Brazil that hosted dozens of world leaders to discuss the global climate and the energy crisis, but not, of course, Donald Trump (or read more

In 2010, I wrote a book called War Is A Lie, with an updated edition in 2016. If I’m lucky and find time — and maybe if they ease up on the wars for a little while — I’ll get a new version out in 2026. But I can already apply the basic idea of the book to the threatened war on Venezuela.

The argument in the book is, of course, not that wars aren’t real, but rather that nothing that is commonly said to justify them is true. The book begins thus:

“Not a single read more

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Give Donald Trump credit. He may be the ultimate destroyer of an imperial power. I’m thinking, of course, of the United States. After all, he’s in the process of turning climate change — oops, sorry, that “hoax,” that “ read more