The Richmond (Va.) Times Dispatch recently published an editorial, republished by other papers with the headline: “Remembering why we still fight in Afghanistan.” It’s a rather striking piece of writing, because it does not even attempt to offer a single reason why anyone would “fight” read more

When I discovered that militarism is one of the top destroyers of the natural environment, I piled that onto my case against war. I did the same when I found out war wasted more money than anything else, was a major promoter of bigotry and racism, was the primary justification for government secrecy and the erosion of civil liberties, was the top barrier to the rule of law and global cooperation, militarized local police, etc., etc. When I came to see how counterproductive war was, increasing read more

It’s popular to refer to the political line of a major corporate party in the United States as something like “the resistance” when the other of the two parties is on the throne of what both parties have, over many decades, actively converted into an unconstitutional position of something wildly beyond old-fashioned royal powers. Around 2004 the Democratic Party line was to pretend to oppose wars. Around 2018 it wasn’t. So the “resistance” of that party’s read more

David Swanson speaking and signing books.

3-5 p.m. at Fellowship Hall, 1924 Cedar St., Berkeley, CA

October 13, 2018.

A CODEPINK Golden Gate event.

RSVP here.

Mary Jo McConahay’s The Tango War is an engaging, extensive, well-researched, well-written account of a topic that still manages to offend me. World War II is sacred history in the United States, the ultimate clash of pure good and evil, the fundamental origin myth of the military industrial complex. It is the top subject of books, films, and shows. Finding a novel angle on World War II that has not yet been exhaustively covered is, at this point, a significant feat. Finding a whole read more

The U.S. military announced Wednesday that it would hold off on bombing Idlib province in Syria until Hurricane Florence’s impact was no longer felt in the United States. In addition, all bombings, missile strikes, and raids have been postponed in Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Somalia, and “literally all over the world,” in the words of Catherine Cusheen, Under Secretary of Defense for Lucidity.

“We saw that school and community events were being canceled all over read more