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Samantha Nutt is an award-winning humanitarian,
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In an interview with Tasnim, David Swanson, who is the director of the “World Beyond War” website, said that the institutionalized “culture of immunity “for police officers in the United States has led to fatal shootings against African Americans, who are in most cases “unarmed, non-threatening and non-law-violating people.”
Highlighting the role the Israeli military plays in the training of US law enforcement forces, Swanson related the shooting culture to
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Is War Necessary?
A Debate
David Swanson (War Is A Lie) vs. Roger Bergman (“There are just wars.”)
Oct. 5, 7:00 p.m., McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College.
Campus Road, Colchester, Vermont 05439 (just outside of Burlington).
Sponsored by the Peace and Justice Club and the Edmundite Center for Peace and Justice.
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Samantha Nutt has spent decades working on humanitarian aid in war zones. Her book, Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies, and Aid, is rich in wisdom drawn from experience. But more powerful and pointed, and worth beginning and ending with, is her talk titled “The Real Harm of the Global Arms Trade.”
Nutt describes child armies across the global south including eight-year-olds who have never been to school but have fought and killed using automatic weapons. Yet, she says, war can be ended
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Benjamin Madley is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he is also chair of American
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The United States government recently gave more than a million dollars to the family of one victim it had killed in one of its wars. The victim happened to be Italian. If you were to find all the Iraqi families with any surviving members who had loved ones killed by the United States it might be a million families. A million times a million dollars would be enough to treat those Iraqis in this respect as if they were Europeans. Who can tell me — raise your hand — how much is a million times
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By David Swanson, Telesur
If you want to find peace in your heart, knock yourself out. Seriously, knock yourself out, there’s nothing more peaceful. Or if you want to find peace in your family or your neighborhood, or on the sidelines of a football game during the playing of the National Anthem, there may be no better way to do it than to pledge your allegiance to permanent war on poor foreign countries.
A school board member in Virginia once agreed to support a celebration of the International
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