David Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is executive director of World BEYOND War and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org. Swanson’s books include War Is A Lie and When the World Outlawed War.
With the U.S. House voting and the U.S. Senate promising to vote on repealing an AUMF (Authorization for the Use of Military Force) from 2002 (essentially a sort of weasely pseudo-permission for President George W. Bush to decide on his own whether to attack and destroy Iraq in violation of the UN Charter and Kellogg-Briand Pact, among other laws), we could end up saying good-bye to a shameful piece of legislation.
A world in which women can be drafted? That doesn’t register.
Longtime activist Angie Zelter, in the preface to her newest book, ACTIVISM FOR LIFE, says “It is 50 years since I left university, started my real education and began thinking how I could help create a better world.”
The last time the U.S. President and UK Prime Minister announced an “Atlantic Charter” it happened in secret, without public involvement, without Congress or Parliament.
Activists held a banner and signs over a busy Seattle freeway during the morning commute to remind people of the imperative to abolish nuclear weapons.
The NATO Summit took place yesterday at NATO headquarters in Brussels: the North Atlantic Council meeting at the highest level of State and Government Leaders.
The world has been treated to successive spectacles of national leaders gathering at a G7 Summit in Cornwall and a NATO Summit in Brussels.
Alice Slater is the New York Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and serves on the Board of World BEYOND War.
