Author name: davidswanson

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, September 5, 2026

I don’t mean to complain about the Board of Peace. If you want to ensure endless wars, expand settler colonialism, formally empower oligarchs over nations, destroy the United Nations, and keep genocides rolling along, I’m sure it’s fantastic!

But I recommend, at least in addition, trying the table of peace. This is something I tried in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday. First, you’ll need a table. Then you’ll need some supplies. read more

By RootsAction Education Fund, September 4, 2026

The September 2026 RootsAction Education Fund Book Club features Dr. Sina Azodi discussing his book, Iran and the Bomb: The United States, Iran, and the Nuclear Question.

Sina Azodi, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Middle East Politics at the George Washington University, and the Program Director read more

Can the man who’s brought back measles, fascism, and royal ballrooms raise impeachment from the grave? No, of course not. He can hardly raise himself from a chair. But with his help, the rest of us might be able to do it.

When the House Judiciary Committee passed articles of impeachment against Nixon, it carefully avoided the central issue of the war, but it did not limit itself to sex scandals, or offenses no Congress Member could commit, or partisan positions that only members of one party read more

When important, serious, respectable people wouldn’t even mention that AIDS was killing on a major scale, their silence meant that not enough would be done to stop it.

I bring this up because Trump wants Congress to put 77.66% of federal discretionary spending into wars, and the vast majority, if not every single member, of Congress has not even once said so. Likewise virtually every media read more

I mention schools because something bothers me the most there, but I could mention newspapers or talk shows or Wikipedia — in any of these fora, once a lie lasts long enough, even if it’s been thoroughly debunked repeatedly for decades or centuries it’s still something other than a lie. It’s still the thing you teach, with an addendum or a footnote pointing out how it conflicts with reality.

First you state that nuking Japan ended WWII; then you add that it didn’t end read more

By refusing to take part in waging war on the people of Iran, the South Korean government obtained something else favored by many of the people of South Korea: at long last a reduction in U.S. war rehearsals and hostility toward North Korea. U.S. media outlets panicked. How could Trump abandon his duty to keep the Korean peninsula divided and the risk of nuclear apocalypse respectably high? U.S. comedians were thrilled: Trump and his fellow dictator in North Korea must be in love! The same people read more

The discretionary budget for the U.S. government next year as proposed by Trump is depicted by the Washington Examiner in the above pie chart. It has passed the House and might pass the Senate. As long as half of Congress Members see their job as boot licking and the other half see their job as tweaking, these annual proposals are good indications of each fresh hell into which we are careening.

This pie chart includes 65.77% of federal discretionary spending for War, plus 6.57% for a woefully inadequate read more

The U.S. State Department has shamelessly published a video celebrating “imperialism” and “dominance” of the Western hemisphere under the banner of the Monroe Doctrine, complete with falsified history and grotesque omissions.

In 2013, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had declared the unpopular and blatantly imperialist Monroe Doctrine dead, even while acting as if it were his daily guide to action. The difference in both Trump terms, but especially in this second one, is a move toward read more

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, August 4, 2026

Robert Kagan, veteran warmonger extraordinaire, wants to know what the “utility” would be of admitting that the war on Iraq was “a mistake.” I’m glad he asked.

But, “mistake” is not exactly the word. This was a criminal action based on lies that killed over a million people, injured over 4 million people, made homeless over 4 million people, left behind permanent read more

“There has never been a war launched without a pile of lies, and very often those lies are literally recycled from previous wars.”

By The Zero Hour, August 2, 2026

Richard R.J. Eskow discusses David Swanson’s new book War Is Still A Lie with David Swanson.