War Is A Crime

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Honestly, you couldn’t have made it up, could you? I’m thinking about an American president intent on ensuring that Planet Earth will indeed burn to a crisp. And, of course, you know exactly who I mean and he’s made no secret of it, has he? After all, he ran for a second term in office by read more

My name is David Swanson. I’m recording this at the request of the Association for Defending Victims of Terrorism, an Iranian NGO.

The word terrorism in the corporate media where I live in the United States means violence by someone against whom violence should be used. In other words the very concept of terrorism is an appeal to the use of terrorism while deluding oneself that one is opposing terrorism. Another word for terrorism is war, something most governments prepare for, threaten, read more

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A World in Trumple Deep
(And We Are All His Apprentices Now)

By Tom Engelhardt

Unlike every other TomDispatch piece, this one won’t be broken up with section titles for a simple reason. It’s all about Donald J. Trump and when it comes to him, in this strange world of ours, no one ever really gets a break.

In that context, here’s my advice to you: Don’t get old. For years, I managed not read more

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David Swanson on the Terry Lee Show discussing War Is Still A Racket.

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Here’s a question for you: in addition to wiping out the East Wing of the White House to build his future ballroom and so much more, including the construction of a read more

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Yes, how truly (truly!) strange. I must admit that when President George W. Bush announced the launching of what he all too bluntly came to call “the Global War on Terror,” or GWOT, in response to read more

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Consider the change remarkable in its own fashion. The “President of PEACE” in his first term in office has distinctly become the President of WAR the second time around, whether in the read more

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My life began in wartime — World War II — and, if Donald Trump has anything to say about it, will evidently end in war, too. The president who, as advertised, didn’t go to war in his first term in office, also read more