Author name: davidswanson

In the following video Héctor Béjar, Ricardo Soberón, Aida García Naranjo, Ruben Dario Apaza, and David Swanson, describe the current context of Peru, the threats to democracy, the social protests and present the complaint of the real reason for the presence of the United States military troops in Peruvian territory.

Yurii Sheliazhenko has been formally charged by the Ukrainian government with the crime of justifying Russian aggression. The evidence is this statement which explicitly condemns Russian aggression.

If you would like to read what I wrote about Oppenheimer prior to watching the film, click here. I made what I still consider the most important points there, including the point that the decision to drop the bombs had nothing whatsoever to do with ending the war or saving lives.

If you would like to read some additional comments now that I’ve watched the film, and don’t mind that I discuss exactly what happens in the film, keep reading below.

The film was better than the reviews had read more

David Swanson goes on By Any Means Necessary to discuss Bernie Sanders and Congress and military spending.

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, July 25, 2023

In recent years, and again this year, to my knowledge, only a single member of either house of the U.S. Congress has said publicly, prior to voting No on a military spending bill, that he or she planned to vote No because the spending was too high. The same individual has done this more than once, and nobody else has done it at all. That individual is Senator Bernie Sanders. He says he will vote no on read more

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, July 22, 2023

I’m rolling down the President Biden “Expressway” in Scranton PA (speed limit 35) listening to Kai Bird’s and Martin Sherwin’s bio of Oppenheimer, and it strikes me that the subject’s decision not to poison every man, woman, and child in Germany, purely because he couldn’t figure out how to do it, probably didn’t make it into the movie. (Tell me if I’m wrong.)

I will be extremely pleasantly surprised if anyone comes out of the movie read more

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, July 22, 2023

Remarks in Scranton, Pennsylvania, July 22, 2023

There is something that we need to tell a great many of our friends and neighbors. It is that we have been misled. All is not as it seems.

Here we are outside what appears to be a factory where U.S. government dollars create jobs, boost the economy, and fund activities that support the important needs of the U.S. public and the people of the world. Not a bit of those appearances is real.

When government read more