Author name: davidswanson

Lies, Damn Lies, and NATO

By David Swanson, July 16, 2024
Remarks on Stop the War Coalition webinar July 16, 2024

After someone shot Donald Trump, Joe Biden said, indignantly, “we resolve our differences at the ballot,” which is classic propaganda, taking something obviously true (namely: it’s evil to shoot people) and using it to make seem true something obviously false (namely: you can use a ballot in a U.S. election to choose policies you support and have them enacted). When Trump and Biden debated, read more

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Which Country Is Safest During a Nuclear War?

I received a spam email with the subject line “Which Countries Are the Safest If World War 3 Breaks Out? 2024 Study.”

There wasn’t any study. The thing was full of links to a website selling murderous video games. And the driest place in the Pacific Ocean is as real as the safest place in WWIII.

Why can people not get it through their heads that nuclear war kills the planet not just particular places on it?

Here’s the laughable email text, with the links to the kill-kill-kill video games read more

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NATO’s Wars Versus Human Survival

Remarks at http://nonatoyespeace.org

The NATO of the popular imagination is an assembly of representatives of democratic nations who commit to making the world more peaceful, including by militarily defending each other if one of them is attacked. There could hardly exist a more grave collection of lies. NATO is in fact an institution devoted primarily to the increased sale of weaponry to governments of every type — neither its members nor its often openly dictatorial partners acting at the bidding read more

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