War Is A Crime

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By Medea Benjamin and David Swanson, April 4, 2025

We are passionate supporters of all but one of the items on the Hands Off agenda for the April 5 rallies. We couldn’t agree more that the corrupt U.S. government should stop destroying, privatizing, firing, and read more

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In September 2007, retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and historian William Astore emailed me out of the blue. He’d been reading articles at TomDispatch, the website I set up soon after the 9/11 attacks to deal with this country’s Global War on Terror, especially the invasions of, and then never-ending conflicts in Afghanistan and later Iraq. As a former military read more

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What, I wonder, would Jackie Robinson have thought of an all-American world in which his story — essentially all trace of him — would be briefly wiped out at the Department of Defense read more

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NATO? What’s that? If you were to ask in Washington these days, you shouldn’t be surprised to hear that it’s actually the North American Treaty Organization or even the North American Trump Organization. Certainly, many in Europe who, not so very long ago, imagined the United States as their prime protector and benefactor are now facing a distinctly new world. Hey, there read more

Some cities and towns have a venue where activists organizing for peace and justice can, on short notice, and at little or no expense, hold an event with one or more speakers or performers. Some have nothing of the sort, but many have a church basement or an old warehouse. Some of these spaces have microphones and sound systems. Very few have food.

Washington D.C. is, for obvious reasons, one of the most important places in the United States and world in which to build activist movements, and yet read more

Remarks at Center on Conscience and War event on March 29, 2025.

I’ve admired and collaborated with the Center on Conscience and War for many years and worked with many of its board members and Counseling Director Bill Galvin and former Executive Director Maria Santelli. Maria was for about 10 years on the Advisory Board of World BEYOND War, where I’m the executive director. We’ve benefitted greatly from her advising. So I’m happy to be asked to speak about the Center on Conscience and read more

By Canadian Foreign Policy Institute, March 29, 2025

Despite all main political parties advocating for doubling Canadian military spending, militarists are in crisis over Donald Trump’s threats and opposition to the Canadian forces subservience to the U.S. military. Executive Director of World BEYOND War, David Swanson, joined Talking Foreign Policy to discuss Canada’s ties to the US war machine, how NATO won’t defend Canada and alternatives to militarism.

Ralph welcomes journalist Chris Hedges to talk about his new book “A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine.” Then, Ralph speaks to David Swanson of World BEYOND War about what his organization is doing to resist this country’s casual acceptance of being constantly at war. Finally, Ralph checks in with our resident constitutional scholar Bruce Fein.