Tag: War
10 Ways We Pretend War Is Not a Crime and How to C...
Posted by David Swanson | Aug 27, 2019 | Politics, US, Viewpoints | 1 |
Peace Comes to Korea: Let’s Understand Why
Posted by David Swanson | May 1, 2018 | Asia Pacific, Politics, US, Viewpoints | 0 |
Vietghanistan’s New Year, War Lies’ New Millennium...
Posted by David Swanson | Oct 6, 2017 | Politics, US, Viewpoints | 1 |
The Coming War on China: A Review of John Pilger...
Posted by Jeremy R. Hammond | Sep 27, 2017 | Asia Pacific, Reviews, Viewpoints | 40 |
You Can’t Have a Progressive Movement Without Peac...
Posted by David Swanson | Sep 9, 2017 | Politics, US, Viewpoints | 2 |
Why Do Taliban Continue to Kill If They Are Serious about Peace?
by Ghulam Farooq Mujaddidi | Jun 12, 2020 | Asia Pacific, Politics, Viewpoints
The Taliban must alter their zero-sum mentality and seriously commit to bringing peace to Afghanistan before it is too late.
Why War Deaths Increase After Wars
by David Swanson | Nov 18, 2019 | Asia Pacific, Middle East, News & Analysis, Politics, US
It would be more difficult for the US government to continually wage senseless wars if the estimated millions of dead received more attention.
Another Armistice Day with No Trump Weapons Parade
by David Swanson | Nov 9, 2019 | Politics, US, Viewpoints
The madness of the normal way of doing things urgently needs exposure, including the madness of imagining that sometimes in some places war can be rational.
Peace in Afghanistan
by David Swanson | Oct 26, 2019 | Asia Pacific, Politics, US, Viewpoints
The peace activists in Afghanistan need the American people to do more to protest the US government’s war in their country.
What Does the U.S. Public Think of Its Government Arming and Bombing the World?
by David Swanson | Oct 26, 2019 | News & Analysis, Politics, US
Some things are of course so painfully obvious that it’s painful to realize that they really do need to be polled on in hopes of getting them reported on.
The Revolution in Military Affairs
by Paul Craig Roberts | Sep 6, 2019 | Politics, US, Viewpoints
With America unable to produce leadership, the neoconservatives in their arrogant hubris could easily foment a conflict that will leave America in ruins.
10 Ways We Pretend War Is Not a Crime and How to Change Them
by David Swanson | Aug 27, 2019 | Politics, US, Viewpoints
Here are 10 of the most important ways in which we pretend that war is not a crime, as well as how to change this so that war is no longer deemed permissible.
The Myths, the Silence, and the Propaganda That Keep Nuclear Weapons in Existence
by David Swanson | Aug 6, 2019 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, Politics, US
Remarks in Poulsbo, Washington, August 4, 2019
Southeast Asia Was Hit By a Record-Breaking Disaster; It Was Called the United States
by David Swanson | Jul 23, 2019 | Asia Pacific, Politics, US, Viewpoints
In the United States people call it “the Vietnam war.” In Vietnam and other souteast Asian countries, it’s called the American war.
As We Face Armageddon the Western World Is Leaderless
by Paul Craig Roberts | Jun 25, 2019 | Middle East, Politics, US, Viewpoints
Washington has grown accustomed to attacking countries on false pretenses and getting away with it. Setting up Iran for an attack is next on the agenda.
Soldiers Without Guns
by David Swanson | Jun 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
The people of Bougainville wanted independence, but were made part of Papua New Guinea instead. And in the 1960s the most horrible thing happened…
Two Contrasting Commencement Addresses a Half Century Apart
by Paul Craig Roberts | Jun 3, 2019 | Politics, US, Viewpoints
When John Kennedy was president, America was a proud country. Today it is a shameful place in freefall, a grave danger to its citizens and the world.
The Lies About World War II
by Paul Craig Roberts | May 15, 2019 | Europe, Politics, US, Viewpoints
Nothing is so little regarded in the West as free thought and truth. Explanations are controlled to advance the agendas of the ruling interest groups.
If You Want to Be President, Show Us Your Budget
by David Swanson | Mar 29, 2019 | Politics, US, Viewpoints
Ending hunger and providing clean water to the world would make the US safer and cost far less than the annual spending on war, destruction, and violence.
Draft Registration Will Be Either Ended or Imposed on Women
by David Swanson | Mar 1, 2019 | News & Analysis, Politics, US
We need a movement with women and men from around the world to create a global treaty banning all military conscription for all people.
Congress Finds its War Powers and Weaknesses
by David Swanson | Feb 1, 2019 | Middle East, Politics, US, Viewpoints
While Congress may be moving to the US war in Yemen, it’s also working to ensure the continuance of war and hostilities elsewhere.
Things Congress Could Do for Peace, From Easiest to Hardest
by David Swanson | Jan 18, 2019 | Politics, US, Viewpoints
Here’s a list of thing the US Congress could do if it wanted to help usher in an era of world peace, starting with the simplest.
The Ancient Mythical Rites of Pearl Harbor Day
by David Swanson | Dec 6, 2018 | News & Analysis, Politics, US
What the US mainstream media won’t inform you in their ritualistic annual Pearl Harbor Day rites is that the Japanese attack was anything but a surprise.
There Is No Good Kind of Nationalism
by David Swanson | Oct 24, 2018 | Culture, US, Viewpoints
Of course white nationalism is a problem, but not just because it’s white — also because of the nationalism.
Trump’s Withdrawal from the INF Treaty: A Showdown in the Making
by Paul Craig Roberts | Oct 23, 2018 | Asia Pacific, Politics, US, Viewpoints
President Trump’s withdrawal from the INF Treaty heightens the risk of nuclear war in service of the military/security complex and neocon warmongers.