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As I was writing this introduction, the nightmare in the Middle East, the forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, Israeli preparations to invade Gaza, the Biden administration’s decision to move a
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, October 24, 2023
I don’t recall getting to vote on sending more weapons to four wars at a time in the name of democracy, do you?
Has anybody asked you whether you agree with the media’s universal consensus that having a House Speaker who could facilitate the prolongation, escalation, and creation of numerous wars would be obviously better than not having a House Speaker?
Has a single member of the House even agreed to shut up and stop speaking during what should
In December 1934, Arthur Henderson, a leader of the British Labour Party, declared in his speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize that the immense human suffering caused by World War I “led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.”
Unfortunately, that realization did not go very far or very deep. Although, since that time, international law has been refined, nations remain far from adhering to its provisions or accepting its
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, October 19, 2023
Remarks on October 19 at Uniting for Peace Conference
Likely place to find video: https://unitingforpeace.com
For Western media consumers, Yemen, Syria, Sudan, Azerbaijan, and various other ongoing wars might as well not exist. But Joe Biden is seeking money from the U.S. Congress for four wars at once, so that he can pay the world’s largest merchants of death to ship massive piles of free weapons to Ukraine, Israel, and (even if it’s not a
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Are We the Dinosaurs of the 21st Century? And How Our Wars Distract Us ByLet’s admit it: We are indeed mad creatures.
This should truly have been the time of our discontent. The northern hemisphere just experienced the hottest summer
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Imperial powers — and so empires — have always been with us. They’ve been part and parcel of history forever and a day. However, in this country, though it should be difficult to deny that the United States is just such a power, most Americans remain remarkably oblivious not just to the phenomenon, but to the very idea of it. No matter that, in this century, their country
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When it comes to war, increasingly autonomous drones are now, it seems, the name of the game. Only the other day, in its stunning surprise attack on Israel, Hamas claimed
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Let me offer you a little summary of NBC Nightly News on October 4th. The top story that evening, you won’t be surprised to learn, was who would be the next House