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By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, January 30, 2025
Remarks at the Sixth International Conference for World Balance in Havana, Cuba, Jan. 30, 2025
Before I start I want to express sympathy for the people who have died in a plane crash in Washington, and I want to condemn Trump’s disgusting proposal to kidnap people and lock them up in Guantanamo.
I’m very happy to be in Cuba. I feel closer to Cuba than I do to people in the United States with red hats reading MAGA. Cuba is,
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Give Karen Greenberg credit. Back in September 2007, writing her second piece for TomDispatch, she entitled it “Guantánamo Forever.” Well, here we are, 17 years later, and that nightmare prison, first established by the administration of President George W. Bush
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Honestly, when I first became a book editor an eon ago, if you had told me that the pen and the typewriter would go the way of the dinosaurs and that, almost 50 years later, I would be sitting at a computer able to dispatch (yes, as in TomDispatch) things I had written or edited almost instantaneously more or less everywhere on Earth, I would have said you were delusional.
And
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Will the world ever be free of the menace of nuclear annihilation?
There was a promising start along these lines during the late twentieth century, when―pressed by a popular upsurge against nuclear weapons―the nations of the world adopted a succession of nuclear arms control and disarmament agreements. Starting with the Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963, these agreements helped curb the nuclear arms race and prevent nuclear war.
But the tide gradually turned during the final years of the twentieth
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Honestly, for at least some of us, it’s hard to imagine that Donald Trump is once again president — yes, president! — of the United States, no less that he was sworn into office the second time on — can you believe it? — Martin Luther King Jr. Day. That gives irony a bad name. Tell me it doesn’t feel like someone’s bizarre fantasy or the ad for a truly bad (or
By World BEYOND War, January 22, 2025
What’s wrong with military bases and what can be done about them?
The Earth is coated in military bases, spreading like a pandemic, foriegn ones, domestic ones, famous ones, secret ones, part of a growing and disastrous global increase in spending on wars and preparations for wars that makes wars more, not less, likely. And prime targets in wars are bases and anything near them.
Bases are many of the worst environmental disaster sites, polluting air,
An imperial presidency, a cult of idiocracy, and a team of hateful oligarchs is the problem.
A salute is just a symbol.
If you do a web search for images of “Bellamy salute” you find countless black-and-white photographs of U.S. children and adults with their right arms raised stiffly out in front of them in what will strike most people as a Nazi salute. From the early 1890s through 1942 the United States used the Bellamy salute to accompany the words written by Francis Bellamy and known as
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Consider it no happenstance that Donald and dystopia both begin with a “d.” Sadly enough, they have all too much in common. Right now, the big D is clearly intent on creating a little d globally. After all, before he was even sworn in as president again he had already launched a dystopian imperial version of foreign policy that
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