War Is A Crime

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, November 9, 2024

Good people in California protested on election night — not the election but the practicing of nuclear war in the form of launching a missile loaded with dud nukes from the California coast. The few people who even knew such madness was happening were likely to have heard about it from reports that explained very little about where such ICBMs read more

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I’ve lived through 15 presidencies so far, from Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s (not that I would remember him, since I was born in July 1944, and he died in April 1945) to Joe Biden’s. The first president I remember was former World War II general Dwight D. Eisenhower (whose vice president, god save us all, was future Watergate President Richard Nixon). In fact, I can still read more

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I’m looking forward to speaking at peace events in Norway and Sweden in November. All the events are free and open, and I hope you can be there. You can also watch live video from anywhere.

Here’s the schedule:

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OSLO, NORWAY

I will be accepting the first annual Real Nobel Peace Prize, awarded by the Lay Down Your Arms Foundation.
When: November 10, 2024, Prize session; 12:00 – 13:30, then lunch, then Round table 15:00 to 17:00 with invited peace activists, organizations,  read more

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At this moment, we’re less than a week away from… who knows what? Knowing only that the first Black woman — or, for that matter, woman — may enter the White House as president (she’s been there before, of course, as vice president) or that Disintegrating Donald, the guy who sounds read more

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Given what we know about this overheating planet of ours, a vote for Donald Trump, the “drill, baby, drill” candidate for president of the United States, read more

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If you want a headline to set you back a little when it comes to our planet and our future, try this one from the British Guardian: “Global water crisis leaves half of world read more

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Count on one thing: Donald Trump wasn’t kidding. I’m thinking of the moment when he insisted that he would be a “dictator” on “day one” of his next term read more