By David Swanson Headlines this past week claimed that for the first time ever more than half of poll respondents around the world said they saw themselves more as a global citizen than as a citizen of a country. What […]
Thank you. Thank you for welcoming me to this hallowed ground, given meaning like the fields of Gettysburg by those who died here, far more than any speech can pretend to add. Those deaths, here and in Nagasaki, those hundreds […]
By David Swanson Anti-War Advocate: Is there a case that can be made for war? Pro-War Advocate: Well, yes. In a word: Hitler! Anti-War Advocate: Is “Hitler!” a case for future wars? Let me suggest some reasons why I think […]
NEW YORK – Major cable provider Charter Communications – apparently fearful of angering the Obama administration while a giant merger deal was pending– has barred its cable outlet near the Whiteman AFB drone control center in Missouri from carrying a […]
https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-john-dear-on-catholic-church-rejecting-just-war-theory After 1700 years, the Catholic Church is turning against the idea that there can be a “just war.” We speak with John Dear. John Dear is an internationally recognized voice for peace and nonviolence. A priest, pastor, retreat […]
By David Swanson, American Herald Tribune Someone asked me to find war lies during the past few years. Perhaps they had in mind the humanitarian pretenses around attacking Libya in 2011 and Iraq in 2014, or the false claims about […]
Entiendo que las guerras y la militarización nos hacen menos seguros en lugar de protegernos, que matan, hieren y traumatizan a adultos, niños y bebés, perjudican gravemente el medio ambiente, erosionan las libertades civiles, y drenan nuestras economías, desviando recursos […]
By Ann Wright Our small three person delegation from CODEPINK: Women for Peace (Leslie Harris of Dallas, TX, Barbara Briggs-Letson of Sebastopol, CA and Ann Wright of Honolulu, HI) travelled to Greece to volunteer in refugee camps. We spent our […]