I’ve been reading Truth and Consequence: Reflections on Catastrophe, Civil Resistance, and Hope. It’s a collections of things Daniel Ellsberg wrote and didn’t publish. I come to it having read what he did publish, having spoken with him about some of it, having debated him — publicly and privately — on some of it, and generally and extremely admiring what he had to offer and wishing the whole world would catch up to him. But, apart from some aspects of his read more

Should it bother us how much our official comment-on-aliens guy does to normalize war? Is it overly nostalgic to suggest that I wouldn’t have so much minded aliens encountering Carl Sagan when he was that guy?

The latest from Neil deGrasse Tyson in the New York Times, suggests that aliens might show up on Earth without having observed it, choosing as their point of arrival of course the capital read more

By CrossTalk, May 6, 2026

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Can You please oppose the war on Iran for one of the following 47 reasons? By oppose I do not mean that you claim you oppose it, as if you were a Democrat in Congress hoping to drive down Trump’s approval ratings by keeping the war going while claiming to supposedly oppose it. By oppose I mean try to stop: pressure the media and Congress, educate the public, hold a rally, make a phone call, join a flotilla, sign a petition, start an organization, create a work of art, hand out flyers or read more

My name is David Swanson. I’m recording this at the request of the Association for Defending Victims of Terrorism, an Iranian NGO.

The word terrorism in the corporate media where I live in the United States means violence by someone against whom violence should be used. In other words the very concept of terrorism is an appeal to the use of terrorism while deluding oneself that one is opposing terrorism. Another word for terrorism is war, something most governments prepare for, threaten, read more

David Swanson on the Terry Lee Show discussing War Is Still A Racket.