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Imagine this scenario for a moment: a “great power” watches another major power fight a war in a nearby nation for 10 years before its army
The development and the deployment of nuclear weapons are usually based on the assumption that they enhance national security. But, in fact, as this powerful study of nuclear policy convincingly demonstrates, nuclear weapons move nations toward the brink of destruction.
The basis for this conclusion is the post-World War II nuclear arms race and, especially, the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962. At the height of the crisis, top officials from the governments of the United States and the
By Free Press Network, January 15, 2023
In this recording of a webinar from January 14, 2023, David Swanson discussed his forthcoming book The Monroe Doctrine at 200 and What to Replace it With. See the 26:24 point in the video.
The Monroe Doctrine was and is a justification for actions, some good, some indifferent, but the overwhelming bulk reprehensible. The Monroe Doctrine remains in place, both explicitly and dressed up in novel language. Additional doctrines have been built on its foundations.
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