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By Gar Smith On April 1, 2016 President Barack Obama addressed the closing session of the Nuclear Security Summit and praised “the collective efforts that

By David Swanson Every student of peace, sanity, or survival, every person interested in the possibility of the United States making its current wars its

By Mel Gurtov North Korea is on a military tear.  In response to UN sanctions, it carried out its fourth nuclear test in January and

By Brian Terrell “What happened to us was a shakedown by gangsters wearing police uniforms and judges’ robes, not for the sake of justice, but

If the bombing occurs when the bombs that have been dropped from U.S. airplanes explode, then the United States just bombed Germany and has been

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

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

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:

NEW YORK – Major cable provider Charter Communications – apparently fearful of angering the Obama administration while a giant merger deal was pending– has barred

  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.

By David Swanson, American Herald Tribune President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry say that allowing family members of 9/11 victims to sue

Please let others know about it! Re-Tweet this announcement. Share this Facebook video. Share this Youtube video. And please sign the peace pledge if you

By Erica Chenoweth Last week, the Vatican hosted a conference on the theme of “Nonviolence and Just Peace: Contributing to the Catholic Understanding of and Commitment

  https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-john-hanrahan-on-avaazs-warmongering John Hanrahan, currently on the editorial board of ExposeFacts, is a former executive director of The Fund for Investigative Journalism and reporter for

My son left a 2015 Guinness Book of World Records lying around. It’s largely a mix of athletic feats, extravagant spending, freakish body conditions and

Watch the video: What in the world is he singing about? This: http://davidswanson.org/outlawry

By Bill Distler “Privatization of Afghanistan’s state-owned companies, which controlled many of the country’s mineral resources, was ongoing but not complete.”  (From the 2011 edition

Shannonwatch and Veterans for Peace member Edward Horgan will appear in Ennis District Court tomorrow, Friday April 15th, to answer a charge that he entered

By David Swanson, American Herald Tribune Remarks prepared for April 12 event in Baltimore. I’m going to start with a few brief opening remarks about

At a post-screening discussion where I questioned the director of Eye in the Sky about the disconnect between his drone-kill movie and reality, he launched

  https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-gregory-shupak-on-the-case-against-bombing-isis Dr. Gregory Shupak has a PhD in Literary Studies and teaches Media Studies at the University of Guelph in Toronto. He is an