A blog about a criminal enterprise
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, December 2, 2024
Thousands of civic-minded people have been voluntarily helping out the not-yet-extant pseudo-government agency named after the ruler of not-yet-sunk Venice: the DOGE.
On a convenient webpage they are signing a petition and sending tweets to billionaire efficiency-creator Elon Musk. The petition reads:
To: Elon Musk at the Department of Government Efficiency
Here’s how to improve government efficiency and cut spending: Audit the Pentagon, stop
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Imagine this: at the moment I was writing this introduction, Donald (“grab ’em by the pussy“) Trump
On Speaking Truth to Empire on KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno, Dan Yaseen interviews
Ramzy Baroud, a US-Palestinian journalist, media consultant, an author, internationally-syndicated columnist, and the Editor of The Palestine Chronicle. He is the author of six books and a contributor to many others; his latest volume , co-edited with Ilan Pappe is “Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders and Intellectuals Speak Out”.
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You wouldn’t know it anymore, but Donald Trump’s grandparents and mother were immigrants, as were two of his wives. And imagine this: if they all had arrived here early in 2025, just as their son or grandson
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, November 25, 2024
Netanyahu-free zones (ICC members) in blue. Source.
The International Criminal Court has taken an enormously important small step toward respectability and real internationalism by issuing arrest warrants for the very first time for war allies of the United States and Western militaries.
It took many, many inexcusable months for the prosecutor of the ICC to request the arrest warrants, and six more months for the court to issue them. The delays
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Let’s try to put recent political events in this country in perspective — if, that is, perspective is even a concept when it comes to Elon Musk and the word “billion,” no less “billionaire,” or the very idea of “the world’s wealthiest person” being, no surprise at all, Donald Trump’s big-money pal and (according to him, at least) “
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Count on one thing: On January 20, 2025, we will indeed find ourselves in a new world. And that new world won’t, I suspect, be all that familiar even to those of us who lived through the previous version of it from January 20, 2017, to perhaps
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, November 20, 2024
The United States just held a presidential election between two pro-war, militarist candidates, each of whom could have been expected to shift yet more funding into war preparations, to arm the genocide in Palestine, and to wage and threaten war with abandon. And yet peace was, as it often is, a deciding factor.
Many voters demanding peace were otherwise inclined to vote for Kamala Harris. Had she simply committed to ceasing to illegally arm
I wasn’t going to read The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates because I’m doing what I can to end the genocide and occupation, and because Coates seems like such a nice guy that it saddens me that he nonsensically defended the U.S. Civil War.
I’m very glad that I did read it. I did so because someone led me to believe that in it Coates changed his mind about the Civil War. This turned out to be a misunderstanding that grew out of the fact that in the book he does slightly change his mind about a
In my town the cherry trees now bloom as winter approaches, and the curious thing is that people no longer mention the lovely spring days in November without adding they they are aware it’s an indication of a climate collapse that may rapidly render human life on Earth impossible. Everyone not only knows it but says it.
They still never add that they want to engage in any sort of activism to compel a change of course, even as the U.S. government is handed over fully to the oil companies and other