By David Swanson, https://davidswanson.org/never-withdraw-a-demand-for-diplomacy
As in most wars, both sides of the one in Ukraine have predicted total victory month after month — with no evidence that either side has ever been remotely right about that.
The U.S. is establishing a seemingly permanent infrastructure for a forever war, the two most likely eventual endings of which are nuclear apocalypse or negotiated peace.
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, October 16, 2022
There’s probably not a corner of the Earth lacking talented, creative, and wise composers of lyrics for songs. It’s unfortunate that no nation has been able to locate any of them to assist with its national anthem.
By Yurii Sheliazhenko, World BEYOND War, October 16, 2022
In the media wing of the U.S. military-industrial complex, The Atlantic magazine hosts the loudest team of cheerleaders of war. Using their online archive, you could see that from the first issue in 1857 to the current publications the magazine preserves an old pamphleteering spirit capable of waking up any nest of hornets, as Mark Twain put it in the immortal short story “Journalism in Tennessee.”
https://worldbeyondwar.org/opposing-war-together-with-libertarians/
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, October 7, 2022
I’ve just read In Search of Monsters to Destroy by Christopher J. Coyne. It’s published by the Independent Institute (which seems dedicated to untaxing the rich, destroying socialism, and so forth). The book begins by citing as influences both peace advocates and rightwing economists.
https://worldbeyondwar.org/get-mad-about-nuclear-madness/
By David Swanson, September 24, 2022
Remarks in Seattle on September 24, 2022 at https://abolishnuclearweapons.org
I am so sick and tired of wars. I’m ready for peace. What about you?
I’m glad to hear it. But pretty much everybody is for peace, even the people who think the surest way to peace is through more wars. They have a peace pole in the Pentagon, after all.
By David Swanson
https://davidswanson.org/riotsville/
A preview of the film “Riotsville” is here.
There’s a good review of the film here, and another here.
In the late 1960s, the U.S.
Top 10 Reasons Sweden and Finland Will Regret Joining NATO
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, September 7, 2022
https://worldbeyondwar.org/top-10-reasons-sweden-and-finland-will-regret-joining-nato/
Friendly advice to my brothers and sisters in Finland and Sweden.
There are people at the Pentagon and Lockheed Martin laughing at you. You shouldn’t feel special. They laugh at the U.S. public all the time.
