I wish U.S. academics would spend less time fantasizing choices between various murders with trollies, or playing games with theories about how greedy robots might do diplomacy, and more time on the impeachment problem.

In a world full of starvation, illness, war, and other horrors, the problems with airports are minor, or we wouldn’t go near airports. (I only go near them if I think it can help address the world’s major problems.) Most of airports’ shortcomings are familiar: air travel does severe damage to the Earth’s climate, and in many cases is less convenient and even slower than train travel but has been made dramatically less expensive. And don’t get me started on the food. read more

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, June 28, 2025

Remarks at demonstration near Ramstein Air Base in Germany, June 28, 2025.

Where I live in the United States, if you watch a sports game on television, the announcers will sometimes thank the U.S. military for watching from 175 countries. But few people watching will stop and ask themselves what in the name of the holy dollar is one military doing in 175 countries. Almost all countries that have militaries have them in 1 country.

In fact the U.S. read more

Remarks at Neutrality Colloquium: A Call to Action for Active Neutrality & World Peace, June 26-27, 2025 in Geneva, Switzerland.

I grew up in a town in the United States that was built from nothing in the 1960s around an artificial lake with — in the lake — a fountain modeled on the fountain in Geneva. Yesterday I saw the fountain in Geneva for the first time, and felt at home.

I also feel at home with neutrality.

I think another word for neutrality is blindness.

Not in the sense read more

By Legitimate Targets​ @LegitTargets, June 18, 2025
Today on Legitimate Targets, Jackson Hinkle speaks with World B​EYOND War’s David Swanson (@davidcnswanson) about the prospects of a US WAR ON IRAN, UKRAINIAN TERRORISM & Trump’s FAILURE to “END THE WARS.”

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 BREAKING: WAR ON IRAN IS THE DUMBEST & DEADLIEST IDEA!

Today on Legitimate Targets, Jackson Hinkle speaks with World Beyond War’s David Swanson (@davidcnswanson) read more

And it’s doing tremendous damage.

The Helsinki Accords of 1975 look from the perspective of 50 years later like part of a trend away from the insanity of mass-murder and nuclear belligerence, in contrast to an opposing trend today. The war on Vietnam had given massive sadistic destruction a bad name, so bad that war promoters diagnosed society with a disease called the Vietnam Syndrome, whose only symptom was aversion to more wars — so bad that World War II became a wonderful event and the top subject of Hollywood. Opposition read more