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BC Guest Commentator David Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is executive director of WorldBeyondWar.org and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org. Swanson's books include War Is A Lie. He blogs at DavidSwanson.org and WarIsACrime.org. He hosts Talk World Radio. He is a Nobel Peace Prize Nominee and U.S. Peace Prize Recipient. Follow him on Twitter: @davidcnswanson and FaceBook
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Trump promised not to start any wars and to end existing ones easily and swiftly.
Recently the least popular person alive said, “I didn’t guarantee no war. Why would I have built the strongest military in the world?” Already unpopular with…
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Trump has taken a couple of practices used abroad for many decades and brought them home in new ways.
The U.S. government has the world’s most expensive military waging wars around the world. It also now has a military aimed at the United States itself.…
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Abolishing something means eliminating it entirely, which often also means creating very different institutions that do things very differently.
“Abolition” isn’t just a fun word to say. “I want to abolish prisons,” doesn’t just mean that you think there are too many prisons and they…
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Looking at males, aged 18-59, veterans are well over twice, maybe over three times as likely to be mass shooters compared with the group as a whole. And they shoot somewhat more fatally.
Two U.S. military veterans allegedly shot and killed at least three people each recently, Thomas Jacob Sanford in Michigan, and Nigel Max Edge in North Carolina.…
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A shooter may believe that certain scapegoated types of people are a threat to his type of people.
The hunt for the political ideology driving each murder that makes the news obscures some key points. One is that the shooter is almost always a…
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If you’re going to claim that war is defensive and necessary, you have to have accepted that some people are inferior creatures with whom one cannot negotiate, who “only understand violence.” You have to pretend that wars happening in people’s cities and villages are on an ancient “battlefield” free of civilians.
The European Commission, far from eager to restore the non-Orwellian name to departments of war - long since rebranded as departments of “defense” - is pushing…
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He’s said the Geneva Conventions should be ignored.
Like the Republican Party whose senators will make Pete Hegseth the next U.S. Secretary of War, Hegseth is a bad joke. The Democratic minority in the…
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Do you really want to be that person who “didn’t realize” there was a giant lava pool right there?
He’s a wealthy scam artist snake oil salesman who’s cheated and stolen his whole life and conned his way into being president just a few years…
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All of the top 27 nations in per capita military spending are U.S. weapons customers.
The 2020 Democratic Party Platform said that Democrats would reduce military spending: “We can maintain a strong defense and protect our safety and security for less.”…
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