War Is A Crime

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, October 3, 2026

Remarks in Baltimore on October 3, 2026, at event with War Is Still A Lie

Thank you to Ronda Cooperstein and the local chapter of World BEYOND War for setting this event up.

I recently read a big stack of books on the decline and elimination of dueling. There were thousands of factors, many of them beyond anyone’s easy control, but key among them was cultural change, was bringing people to find greater humiliation in dueling than in not dueling, read more

According to an 1838 U.S.-published instruction manual for dueling, the practice of dueling was going to last “as long as a manly independence, and a lofty personal pride in all that dignifies and ennobles the human character, shall continue to exist.”[1] Be that as it may, dueling was soon gone as a practice in any way acceptable or routine, and most of the globe had never had it to begin with.

Many years ago, I wrote a book about the outlawrists of the 1920s, people (led by lawyers) who were read more

Wednesday morning I was speaking by Zoom to a college class about war and peace, and one of the students asked about the risk of the U.S. demilitarizing and other nations not. I gave a standard answer about how a reverse arms race could be done in stages. The U.S. could commit to not spending more than three times any other nation on its military and proceed downward from there. Of the couple of dozen nations that spend much of anything on their militaries, all but three are U.S. allies and weapons read more

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Grab paper and pencil. Write down the numbers 1 through 10 and get ready to mark down next to them either “True” or “False.” Think I can trick you? Ten items follow. Which are true and which false? See the answers at the end.

1. The grandfather of the current leader of North Korea, the guy who ruled over North Korea from 1945 to 1994, was more of a Presbyterian than a Communist. Kim Il Sung was raised in a Christian community created by U.S. missionaries, was a Sunday School teacher and church organist, and leader of a Christian youth group. Kim Il Sung did not turn against Christianity so much as choose to himself play the role of Jesus in the story. He changed his name to take the name of a mythical read more

AUDIO:

Talk World Radio is recorded on Zoom.

Here is this week’s video and all the videos on Youtube.

AUDIO:

Talk World Radio is recorded on Zoom.

Here is this week’s video and all the videos on Youtube.