War Is A Crime

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Yes, even during his election campaign in 2020, Donald Trump was already muttering about how windmills “kill all the birds.” (“You want to see a bird graveyard? Go under a windmill someday. You’ll read more

By Legitimate Targets @LegitTargets, June 18, 2025
Today on Legitimate Targets, Jackson Hinkle speaks with World B​EYOND War’s David Swanson (@davidcnswanson) about the prospects of a US WAR ON IRAN, UKRAINIAN TERRORISM & Trump’s FAILURE to “END THE WARS.”

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 BREAKING: WAR ON IRAN IS THE DUMBEST & DEADLIEST IDEA!

Today on Legitimate Targets, Jackson Hinkle speaks with World Beyond War’s David Swanson (@davidcnswanson) read more

And it’s doing tremendous damage.

The Helsinki Accords of 1975 look from the perspective of 50 years later like part of a trend away from the insanity of mass-murder and nuclear belligerence, in contrast to an opposing trend today. The war on Vietnam had given massive sadistic destruction a bad name, so bad that war promoters diagnosed society with a disease called the Vietnam Syndrome, whose only symptom was aversion to more wars — so bad that World War II became a wonderful event and the top subject of Hollywood. Opposition read more

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Let me do something I almost never do and use a modified, updated version of an old introduction (from 2021) for TomDispatch regular David Vine’s new piece. The reason: his focus today, which (sadly) couldn’t be more up to date, is on one of the estimated read more

For years, World BEYOND War and other peace groups from around the world had been attending peace conferences in Cuba. When I visited Cuba this past January it was with a visa for that purpose. I published here the remarks I made at the conference. We shouted as loudly as we could about January’s conference in websites, social media, emails, and media interviews. The notion that there could be read more

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I grew up on sci-fi and dystopian fiction. Brave New World, 1984, Darkness at Noon, Fahrenheit 451, and A Canticle for Leibowitz were all reading for me in my high school and college years. And yet, in truth, nothing prepared me for Donald Trump. He’s already left all of that ancient reading of mine in the dustbin of history. Who read more

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Hey, as TomDispatch regular and former New York Times sportswriter and columnist Robert Lipsyte, author of SportsWorld: read more