This is excerpted and adapted from Swanson’s new book, War Is Still A Racket.

In the peace movement in the United States—or at least in any antiwar circles that involve Veterans For Peace or other veterans groups, or that take an interest in the financial corruption that surrounds wars—Major General Smedley Darlington Butler (1881-1940) is a mythical and heroic figure and has been for almost a century. He is best known for the text contained in Part I of my new book, a passionate rejection read more

According to The Hill, in an article typical of U.S. media, Trump’s war on Iran is totally legal for 60 days read more

By David Swanson, Progressive Hub, April 15, 2026

Nell Bernstein’s new book is called In Our Future We Are Free: The Dismantling of the Youth Prison. It tells us that in the United States in 2000 the number of young people held inside locked buildings was 108,800 and in 2022 it was 27,600. At least two-thirds of youth prisons and jails have been shut down. This is an enormous, dramatic, positive development in an era when most people imagine that the closest thing to good news out read more

Les Leopold’s new book is called The Billionaire$ Have Two Parties: We Need One of Our Own. The point I like best in it is the following. Not only are the duopolistic parties of Republicans and Democrats both generally serving moneyed interests and not ordinary people or the planet, but also they have joined together in the pursuit of maximum gerrymandering — and that could create a way out from under their disastrous domination.

One key impediment to running a third-party candidate read more

Do you like audio books? I do. What about peace, do you like that? I’m referring to peace here as the absence of war. I’m not intending to challenge everyone’s favorite aphorism that — chant it with me — “Peace Is More Than the Absence of War.” I’m just referring to that thing, whatever it is that includes the absence of war plus some other stuff.

If you search for “Peace” on mega-audio-book-supplier Audible (or at least if I do — read more