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By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, January 22, 2021

Dear President Joe Biden,

Congratulations and best wishes!

The Pope of your church in October 2020 wrote these words:

“We can no longer think of war as a solution, because its risks will probably always be greater than its supposed benefits. In view of this, it is very difficult nowadays to invoke the rational criteria elaborated in earlier centuries to speak of the possibility of a ‘just war’. Never again war!”²⁴²

At footnote 242, Pope Francis read more

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David Swanson, activist, journalist, radio host and author of the book “Curing Exceptionalism,” joins us to discuss American exceptionalism and militarism. How should we be looking at today’s inauguration and what can we say about the soul of America?

Jack Rasmus, economist, radio show host & author of ‘The Scourge of Neoliberalism: US Economic Policy from Reagan to Trump,” joins us to discuss America’s economic path forward and what read more

Audio re Blinken 17:45 – 21:41

One of the many things we must rightly demand of the incoming U.S. government is the abandonment of rogue status, the serious participation in treaties, a cooperative and productive relationship with the rest of the world.

We’ve all heard about the Iran agreement, which ought to be re-joined and made into a treaty — and sanctions ought to be ended. Biden can do this alone, except for the ending sanctions part.

We’ve all heard about the Paris climate agreement, which ought to be read more

“But where will you get the money?” is usually a right-wing question, completely forbidden during all discussions of the military and corporate bailouts and fossil-fuel subsidies and prison-building rampages, yet somehow immediately front-and-center with the pretense that it was always there whenever something good is proposed. “We have always been at war with East-Asia, er, with the Deficit.”

Biden’s new spending proposal (details here, read more