War Is A Crime

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, August 17, 2023

One of the scientists at Los Alamos with Oppenheimer was 18 years old. While Oppenheimer was publicly and falsely accused of spying for the Societ Union, this young man did in fact give many of the most important secrets from Los Alamos to the Soviets, and the U.S. government chose not to prosecute him. And there is a brand-new movie by a two-time Oscar-nominated director about this other guy that is in many ways a better movie than Oppenheimer, read more

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You can hardly turn on the TV news or go online these days without seeing… well, Donald Trump, of course, and his extreme version of American politics. Every indictment of him only seems to add read more

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War,  August 16, 2023

Hey World War II fans, Rahm Emanuel has got some great news for YOU! He’s turning Japan into a warmaking country, and bragging about it.

Fun fact: the U.S. tried that before and it kind of backfired.

Funner fact: this is at least Rahm Emanuel’s tenth opportunity to fail upward.

Rahm Emanuel is the formerly much despised mayor of Chicago who tried to cover up police murder.

Congressman Rahm Emanuel in January 2007, after antiwar voters handed read more

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Okay, if you want to grasp the new world we’re now in, imagine this. No, not a Phoenix that set a record of 31 straight days above 110 degrees Fahrenheit (with, it seems, more to come); read more

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Email is dead. Long live Email.

Have you tried discussing something with friends on email lately? Often it’s worse than not even trying. Many people will never reply to any emails at all. Some will reply to the first email in a discussion thread after there have been eight emails and the consensus on some point has moved on. Someone else will then reply to a combination of what the person who is a week behind the times said plus what someone else just said who’s up to speed, but also to what read more

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It’s little short of remarkable when you think about it. Last March, Bezalel Smotrich, the minister of finance in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israeli government (as well as the head of the extremist Religious Zionist Party), read more

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I can still remember my parents singing a somewhat cleaned-up version of the World War I-era song “You’re in the Army Now.” (“You’re in the Army now, You’re not behind a plow; You’ll never get rich, you son of a read more

By World BEYOND War, August 6, 2023

In the following video Héctor Béjar, Ricardo Soberón, Aida García Naranjo, Ruben Dario Apaza, and David Swanson, describe the current context of Peru, the threats to democracy, the social protests and present the complaint of the real reason for the presence of the United States military troops in Peruvian territory.

En read more