War Is A Crime

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, November 9, 2023

Remarks at The Columbus Free Press Annual Awards Dinner, November 9, 2023

The typical response in the United States to the gradual buildup to a war, or even the launching of a war, or even the launching of a war that is reported in U.S. corporate media, is absolutely nothing different: work, school, shopping, sports, movies, etc.

Among those who have some response, it’s typically based on their understanding of the particular war, shaped largely read more

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Yes, it was little short of pathetic. Remember the “big, fat, beautiful wall” that, from the first moment of his 2015-2016 election campaign, Donald Trump swore he’d build to keep read more

By David Swanson, November 6, 2023

Remarks at Cambridge, Mass., November 6, 2023

If we think of the U.S. arming of genocidal colonial violence in Israel as an anachronistic throwback, we’re not wrong, but there’s something we’re missing. If we want to understand why a bill to fund four wars at once is likely to find less, rather than more, opposition in the U.S. Congress, there’s something we should understand about the past, about how we got here.

If we want to know how war read more

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It couldn’t have been less complicated. As a start, the Israelis experienced a crime of the first order at the hands of Hamas militants who broke through their border fortifications and killed not just soldiers but civilians of every sort (including children), while taking other civilians (including children) hostage. That certainly is the definition of war crimes.

The response read more

By WORT Community Radio in Madison, Wisconsin, November 3, 2023

During this time of global unrest, violence, and clashing opinions, we spend an hour with peace activist David Swanson. He joins Esty Dinur to discuss a path to peace in Palestine-Israel and Ukraine, the impact of the military–industrial complex, and why the suggestion of peace seems to outrage many.

They also speak about Esty’s recent read more

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Honestly, you know you’re in a new world when the Republicans in the House of Representatives, after a three-week slugfest, finally elect as speaker Mike Johnson, who backed Trump election denialism in a big-time way. (Keep in mind that the House will have the job of certifying the winner of election 2024!) As CNN read more

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I began TomDispatch a century or so ago (just kidding!) in response to a piece I read in the mainstream media soon after the Bush administration launched its post-9/11 invasion of Afghanistan. The reporter — and I no longer remember who it was — pointed out that U.S. air power was starting to bomb places the Russians had turned into rubble in their Afghan War late read more

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It’s strange to have your past life called up out of the blue, but that’s what TomDispatch regular Kelly Denton-Borhaug did for me in her piece today. After all, she focuses in part on read more

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Consider it no small accomplishment. Donald Trump is now an all-(un)American institution. Even when you don’t see him in the headlines, for instance, he still has his own little niche for news at the New York Times and, read more