War Is A Crime

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It’s rare for me to say that I could see it coming. Still, on Donald Trump’s decision to use the U.S. military base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in his mad campaign to take the very words “immigrant” and “immigration” out of the American lexicon, I must admit that I did exactly that. When TomDispatch read more

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Today, in dealing with Donald Trump’s horrific, increasingly militarized actions toward migrants in this country, TomDispatch read more

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, March 8, 2025

According to Columbia Magazine, published by Columbia University’s Office of Alumni and Development, but ultimately named for a brutal imperialist mercenary, in 1933 while Nazis in Germany were burning books by Jews, Columbia’s president — and future Nobel Peace Prize recipient — Nicholas Murray Butler “welcomed Hans Luther, the German read more

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, March 7, 2025

It’s with a very heavy heart that I watch Europe imitate the militarism of the United States, moving massive resources from human and environmental needs to weapons, celebrating proposals from good liberal civic groups to steal money from Russia and dump it into more weapons, cutting deals to have the ingredients for more weapons dug out of your soil by a distant empire that routinely spits on your head, moving nuclear weapons around and across read more

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As a boy, I can still remember going to the Donnell Library just off 53rd Street and Fifth Avenue in New York City and heading home with science fiction novels under my arm. Though in my young life I never traveled far, in my mind, thanks to those books, I was a planetary journeyman. Jules Verne took me read more

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, March 4, 2025

On Monday I interviewed a member of the Executive Committee of AIPAC. I asked him how he could defend and promote apartheid and genocide. He was not a legal witness; I could not order him not to change the subject. Still, he provided pretty clear (if very weak) excuses for genocide, which I think can be broken up into five types.

1. Others have done it.

The U.S. killed Native Americans, he pointed out. The U.S. starved Germans and Japanese. Israel labels half read more

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How strange! It took our (“our”?) president to inform us, but now we know, right? Vladimir Putin never began the war in Ukraine by ordering an invasion of that country. He was just responding to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s decision to attack Russia, or as President Trump read more

You voted for Trump and are being deported, or losing your job, or paying more for eggs. Now you’re the subject of so-called journalism about your “buyer’s remorse.” This is an extremely weak version of the sort of transformation that is needed — the sort of Saul-to-Paul awakening, forehead-slapping, I’ve-been-an-idiot, redemption-seeking metamorphosizing needed from millions of people, Trump voters and otherwise. For one thing it’s all still selfish and short-sighted. For another read more

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