Tag: Activism
Is the Nobel Committee Finally Abiding by Nobel’s ...
Posted by David Swanson | Oct 6, 2017 | News & Analysis, Politics, US | 1 |
You Can’t Have a Progressive Movement Without Peac...
Posted by David Swanson | Sep 9, 2017 | Politics, US, Viewpoints | 2 |
Hiroshima Haunting
Posted by David Swanson | Aug 9, 2017 | Politics, US, Viewpoints | 2 |
Getting to Peace Through Local Governments
Posted by David Swanson | Aug 9, 2017 | Politics, US, Viewpoints | 1 |
Why We Can and Must End Our Greatest Crime
Posted by David Swanson | Aug 5, 2017 | Politics, US, Viewpoints | 0 |
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.
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.
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.
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…
On Taking Controversial Public Positions: A Reflection
by Richard Falk | Apr 19, 2019 | Palestine, Politics, Viewpoints
I can no more turn away from the Palestinians than those closest to me. It would represent a tear in the fabric of the life and love I have lived and affirmed.
17 Years of Getting Afghanistan Completely Wrong
by David Swanson | Sep 29, 2018 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, Politics, US
The list of failed lessons from the US war on Afghanistan after seventeen years of incessant violence is a long one. Here are a few.
The Democratic Party Comes Out Against Foreign Military Bases
by David Swanson | Sep 29, 2018 | Politics, US, Viewpoints
If I were to accept the theory that the Democratic Party had a soul that could be reclaimed, I would recommend rediscovering wisdom from the 1900 platform.
Health Professionals Tackle War
by David Swanson | Sep 19, 2018 | Reviews, US, Viewpoints
Preventing War and Promoting Peace: A Guide for Health Professionals is a valuable new book rightly considering war as a health crisis.
Altruism and Sadism in Public Policy
by David Swanson | Jun 25, 2018 | Politics, US, Viewpoints
There are three things that are almost always underestimated: the U.S. military budget, altruism, and sadism.
New War Opponents
by David Swanson | May 21, 2018 | Politics, US, Viewpoints
While the left’s anti-war activism evaporated upon Obama’s election and remains disappointingly absent under Trump, on the brighter side, there are large, well-funded organizations beginning to edge toward opposition at least to certain wars.
War Is Love
by David Swanson | May 18, 2018 | Politics, US, Viewpoints
While no peace activists ever claim that peace will help bring the world to a state of war, war activists are constantly claiming that war will produce peace — in fact they’ve been doing so for 100 years now in the face of ever growing evidence to the contrary.
Is the Nobel Committee Finally Abiding by Nobel’s Will?
by David Swanson | Oct 6, 2017 | News & Analysis, Politics, US
The Nobel Prize Committee finally seem to be honoring its intended purpose by awarding it to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN).
Have we lost our way in war?
by David Swanson | Sep 22, 2017 | Politics, US, Viewpoints
War is an institution, the biggest, most costly one around, and with it comes indoctrination into the belief that the wars it produces are “just”.
Are Governments Useless?
by David Swanson | Sep 15, 2017 | Politics, US, Viewpoints
How do you take control of and reverse course with a government that is demonstrably worse than useless?
You Can’t Have a Progressive Movement Without Peace
by David Swanson | Sep 9, 2017 | Politics, US, Viewpoints
Small fractions of U.S. military spending could end starvation, provide clean water, end diseases, even end the use of fossil fuels worldwide.
Hiroshima Haunting
by David Swanson | Aug 9, 2017 | Politics, US, Viewpoints
We can and must eliminate nuclear weapons from the face of the earth before they are accidentally or intentionally used again.
You Cannot Begin a Crime in Good Faith
by David Swanson | Aug 9, 2017 | Politics, US, Viewpoints
We don’t imagine rapes begun in good faith, slavery begun in good faith, child abuse begun in good faith. War is no different.
Getting to Peace Through Local Governments
by David Swanson | Aug 9, 2017 | Politics, US, Viewpoints
Local governments have a duty to represent their communities to the US Congress. Grassroots efforts can push them to actually do so.
Prosecuting Famine Creation
by David Swanson | Aug 5, 2017 | Politics, US, Viewpoints
How can we go about prosecuting weapons dealers and war makers for their violations of human rights?
Why We Can and Must End Our Greatest Crime
by David Swanson | Aug 5, 2017 | Politics, US, Viewpoints
Despite the outlawing of war under the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, as well as the UN Charter, wars rage on.