David Swanson discussed Ukraine on February 17 with Military Families Speak Out
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What Russia and Ukraine Could Do Better
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, February 19, 2022
There are a number of things that have to be said first. They have to be said because virtually no U.S. television viewer knows or is likely ever to know them. They have to be said because if I’m going to suggest any flaws in the actions of the Russian government, I have to establish at least the possibility of doubt that I’m bought and owned by NATO or the Pentagon. Here are those things:
Ukraine has in common with Yemen, Iran, Taiwan, Korea,
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Talk World Radio: Jonathan Katz on What You Don’t Know About Smedley Butler
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This week on Talk World Radio we’re talking about Smedley Butler with the author of a terrific new biography called Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire. The author, Jonathan Katz, based here in Charlottesville, Virginia, as most of the coolest people are, received the James
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But How Do You Stop Putin and the Taliban?
When I suggest not stealing billions of dollars from Afghanistan, and thereby not causing mass starvation and death, otherwise intelligent and informed people tell me that human rights demands that theft. Starving people to death is a means of protecting their “human rights,” in fact. How else can you (or the U.S. government) stop Taliban executions?
When I respond that you (the U.S. government) could ban capital punishment, stop arming and funding the world’s top executioners
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Pop-Morality Is Immoral
I’ve read a number of introduction to philosophy, or ethics for the ordinary person books. The latest, and it’s as good as any of them, is How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur. The title is tongue-in-cheek. The book is not significantly different from the stuff I read years ago when I did a master’s degree in philosophy, except that it strives to avoid unnecessarily specialized vocabulary and inserts silly asides for laughs.
I wouldn’t
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Talk World Radio: Braxton Brewington: End Debt
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This week on Talk World Radio we’re talking about debt, including student debt. Our guest Braxton Brewington is a spokesperson and organizer for The Debt Collective. See https://debtcollective.org The Debt Collective is the nation’s first debtors union fighting for debt abolition
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What Your Belief in War Against Putin Owes to Male Violence Even If You’re Not Male
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, February 7, 2022
I’ve added a book to my growing list of key war abolition reading, which is at the bottom of this article. I’ve put the book Boys Will Be Boys at the very bottom of the list, not because it is the least important, but because it is the earliest, having been published a decade before any of the others. It is also probably the book that — perhaps along with many other influences — has had the biggest impact thus far, on the agenda
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The Warmongers Miscalculated
Video from the White House on Saturday:
"We need a Department of Defense Against the Warmongers" said David Swanson of @WorldBeyondWar, because defense contractors & imperial politicians will lie us into one for 💰💰💰 pic.twitter.com/95EMNlTRkh
— ANSWER Coalition (@answercoalition) February 5, 2022
Video from webinar on Saturday here.
The people inside the White House sometimes believe they can sell us what we don’t want to buy.
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