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The U.S. Choice Not to End This War Is Fog

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The U.S. Choice Not to End This War Is Fog Fact #1

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, November 1, 2022 https://worldbeyondwar.org/the-u-s-choice-not-to-end-this-war-is-fog-fact-1/

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Never Withdraw a Demand for Diplomacy

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Never Withdraw a Demand for Diplomacy

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.

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Ten Worst National Anthems

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Ten Worst National Anthems

https://worldbeyondwar.org/ten-worst-national-anthems/

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.

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How the Warmongering Camp Make the Word Literally Bankrupt

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https://worldbeyondwar.org/how-the-warmongering-camp-make-the-word-literally-bankrupt/

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.”

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Opposing War Together With Libertarians

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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.

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Get Mad About Nuclear Madness

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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. I’m pretty sure they ignore it more than worship it, although they do make a lot of human sacrifices for the cause.

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Riotsville

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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. military built a fake town called Riotsville (or a fake “inner city” actually) on the Fort Belvoir base in Virginia, and then another at Fort Gordon in Georgia — the same state where the Atlanta police are now working on the construction of an enlarged, updated, high-tech Riotsville commonly called “Cop City.”

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Top 10 Reasons Sweden and Finland Will Regret Joining NATO

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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.

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What the Global Peace Index Does and Does Not Measure

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What the Global Peace Index Does and Does Not Measure

By David Swanson
https://davidswanson.org/what-the-global-peace-index-does-and-does-not-measure/

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Canada’s War Problem

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Canada’s War Problem

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Why shouldn’t Canada buy F-35s?

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