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By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, February 7, 2022
I’ve added a book to my growing list of key war abolition reading, which is at the bottom of this article. I’ve put the book Boys Will Be Boys at the very bottom of the list, not because it is the least important, but because it is the earliest, having been published a decade before any of the others. It is also probably the book that — perhaps along with many other influences — has had the biggest impact thus far, on the agenda
Commentators on the current Ukraine crisis have sometimes compared it to the Cuban missile crisis. This is a good comparison―and not only because they both involve a dangerous U.S.-Russian confrontation capable of leading to a nuclear war.
During the 1962 Cuban crisis, the situation was remarkably similar to that in today’s Eastern Europe, although the great power roles were reversed.
In 1962, the Soviet Union had encroached on the U.S. government’s self-defined sphere of influence by installing
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Think of the U.S. military-industrial-congressional complex as a remarkably self-contained system. It’s capable of funding itself at staggering levels, producing weaponry (however inefficient,
Video from the White House on Saturday:
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— ANSWER Coalition (@answercoalition) February 5, 2022
Video from webinar on Saturday here.
The people inside the White House sometimes believe they can sell us what we don’t want to buy. They’ve got a recipe for mixing
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, February 4, 2022
Smedley Butler is generally left out of U.S. history. If you bring up a guy who prevented a Wall Street coup against FDR, you do real damage to the tale of peaceful respect for government from the beginning of time up through January 6, 2021. If you mention the scandal that erupted when he recounted how Mussolini had run over a little girl with his car, it’s hard to leave out the U.S. government’s friendly relations with Mussolini.
Interestingly,
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Whatever the U.S. military may be considered, it isn’t usually thought of as a scam operation. Maybe it’s time to change that way of thinking, though. After all, we’re talking about a crew with a larger “defense” budget than
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, February 2, 2022
In 1929, Russia and China proposed to go to war. Governments around the world pointed out that they’d just signed and ratified the Kellogg-Briand Pact banning all war. Russia withdrew. Peace was made.
In 2022, the United States and Russia proposed to go to war. Governments around the world lined up behind the claim that one side or the other was innocent and purely defensive, because everybody knows that defensive wars are totally fine — it
Here’s the video:
Speakers include:
Katrina vanden Heuvel, editorial director of The Nation magazine, columnist for the Washington Post.
Ann Wright, retired U.S. Army colonel, retired diplomat, author, activist.
Vladimir Kozin, member of Russian Academy of Military Sciences, speaking from Moscow.
Norman Solomon, co-founder and national director of RootsAction.org, author, activist.
Moderator: David Swanson, campaign coordinator of RootsAction.org, executive director of World BEYOND War.
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America’s Two Pandemics And How They Mixed and Matched ByImagine that you were experiencing all of this (and by this, I mean our lives right now) as if it were a novel, à la Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year. The famed author
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Talk World Radio is recorded as audio and video on Riverside.fm, except when it doesn’t work and then on Zoom. Here is this week’s video and all the videos on Youtube.
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This week on Talk World Radio, we’re talking about the saga of Julian Assange with Richard Hillgrove who was hired by Assange in 2018 to lobby British MPs for his release, and worked for him until September 2020. You can find Richard Hillgrove at https://6hillgrovepr.com
Total run time: 29:00
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