[PEACE 7-15-2020] David Swanson’s World BEYOND War
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Talk Nation Radio: Heidi Peltier on the Camo Economy
This week on Talk Nation Radio: massive, shameless, and endlessly expanding war profiteering by weapons dealers. Our guest is Heidi Peltier, author of a new report called “The Growth of the ‘Camo Economy’ and the Commercialization of the Post 9/11 Wars.” Heidi Peltier is the Director of the “20
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Legislation in Congress Would Require Flying Flag With Pentagon on It
By David Swanson
A bill in Congress with bipartisan support would require post offices and various government buildings to fly from September 11th to September 30th every year a flag that looks like this:
While war monuments are being toppled, a war flag is being raised.
Of course, efforts will be made to give this gore-soaked death flag a non-idiotic, non-dishonest, non-warmongering meaning.
Unfortunately for that cause, the flag comes from a foundation
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The Vow From Hiroshima Should Be From Everywhere
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, July 10, 2020
The new film, The Vow From Hiroshima, tells the story of Setsuko Thurlow who was a school girl in Hiroshima when the United States dropped the first nuclear bomb. She was pulled out of a building in which 27 of her classmates burned to death. She witnessed the gruesome injuries and agonizing suffering and indecent mass burial of many loved ones, acquaintances, and strangers.
Setsuko was from a well-off family and says she had to work at overcoming
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20 Congress Members Who Understand What’s Needed
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, July 9, 2020
The U.S. Congress has 100 Senators and 435 House Members. Out of the full 535, there are 20 thus far who have made themselves sponsor or cosponsor of a resolution to do what is most badly needed, move major amounts of money out of wars and war preparations and into human and environmental needs.
There are members of both houses who have arranged for there to be votes in the coming weeks on moving a mere 10% of the Pentagon budget to useful things.
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Mommy, Where Do Peace Activists Come From?
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, July 8, 2020
The Kateri Peace Conference, which has been held in upstate New York for 22 years, will be held online this year, allowing anyone in the world who can get online to attend and hear from and speak with such wonderful U.S. peace activists — (Hey, World, did you know the U.S. had peace activists?) — as Steve Breyman, John Amidon, Maureen Beillargeon
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Talk Nation Radio: Greg Mitchell on the Origins of Myths About Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This week on Talk Nation Radio: Why is much of what many people believe about the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki not true? And how did Hollywood help get various myths started? Our guest is Greg Mitchell, author of numerous books, whose latest is called The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood — and America — Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
Total run time: 29:00
Host: David Swanson.
Producer: David Swanson.
Music by Duke Ellington.
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The Democrats’ Disastrous, Militarist Climate Plan
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, July 5, 2020
The habitability of the earth and the viability of lesser evilism are on the ropes, and incrementalism is thriving even in the current moment of increased activism for radical change. Just take a look at the new “Climate Crisis Action Plan” from the Democratic Party’s Select Committee on the Climate Crisis.
The big goal for the next decade is to — brace yourself, don’t be staggered by this — “Reduce net U.S. greenhouse
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