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Email doesn’t buzz my phone or watch.
Email can’t see me.
Email can’t hear me.
Email can’t cough on me.
I can delete an email without being rude.
I can laugh at an email without being rude.
I can adore an email and read it 18 times and research its topics and its author and its recipients and take hours replying, link to voluminous treatises for further reading, add graphics, and CC six people on six continents who would really like to see it, and BCC two more people who would really like to
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, January 12, 2023
Remarks on RootsAction.org’s Defuse Nuclear War livestream on January 12, 2023. Video here.
Thank you for all for being here and for including me.
We know the risks. They’re no secret. The Doomsday clock has almost nowhere to go but oblivion.
We know what’s needed. We’ve made a national holiday of a man who said he would oppose all nukes and all wars without any regard to whether it was popular, who said the choice was between nonviolence
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Sometimes a little history is just what the doctor ordered.
It was April 16, 1953, and Dwight D. Eisenhower, the former supreme commander of allied forces in Europe in World War II, had been president for just 12 weeks. That first great Cold War conflict, the Korean War, was still months away from ending when he
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In case you hadn’t noticed — and if you’re part of the Biden administration foreign-policy team, you probably haven’t — this country is in decline, globally as well as domestically, and increasingly pugnacious about it. If you want evidence of that reality (and it
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Originally, he was an America Firster, a phrase from the pre-World War II era deeply associated with anti-Semitism. (Yep, he arrived there years before Ye ever made it on the scene!) As an America
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, January 5, 2022
1. Join an online celebration of the peace advocacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on January 12, with
2. Join in a week of actions wherever you are for peace in Ukraine, January 13-22. Learn more and find or create an event here.
3. Celebrate the anniversary of nuclear weapons being banned on January 22! Learn more and find or create an event here.
4. Make plans to be in Washington D.C. on February 19 for the Rage Against the
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Old News in a New Year The Inflation and Deflation Stories of Our Lifetime (and No, They’re Not the Ones You Think!) ByLet me start 2023 with a glance back at a December news moment that caught my eye. To do so, however, I have to offer a bit of explanation.
First, the obvious: I’m an old guy and, though I spend significant parts of any day scrolling through endless websites covering aspects of our ever-changing world, I have a subscription — yes, it’s still possible! — to the New
By ThinkTech Hawaii, January 4, 2023
Humanity’s Resolution for Peace on Earth. The host for this show is Joshua Cooper. The guest is David Swanson. In the New Year, it is time for humanity to make the ultimate new year’s resolution for peace on earth. World BEYOND War shares a message of advocating for abolition of the institution of war and offers a new way forward for people to unite for peace and justice.
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Talk World Radio is recorded as audio and video on Riverside.fm — except when it can’t be and then it’s Zoom. Here is this week’s video and all the videos on Youtube.