There are many lists of nuclear close calls. We have a new one to add.

On Monday I visited a site in Caracas, Venezuela, where, very early in the morning on January 3, two powerful missiles slammed into the top of a hill, several feet apart, both beneath a tall telecommunications tower. The tower is largely gone. Debris flew for great distances — many times the distance of 270 meters to a nuclear reactor (white in the background in the photo above) and nuclear storage facility. The Earth shook. read more

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, February 22, 2026

I’m on the third day of a peace delegation from the U.S. and other countries to Venezuela. I posted about the second day here and first day here.

Now day 3:

Above is a photo of me with two boys in a neighborhood of Caracas that was attacked by the U.S. military on January 3rd. At left is Antoniel, at right Fabricio. They have stories to tell.

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By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, February 21, 2026

I reported on our first day as a U.S. peace delegation to Venezuela here.

The second day began and ended with music, the closing being a musical expelling of the Monroe Doctrine from the world. All is revealed below for your viewing pleasure.

Would you like to hear a group of Venezuelans express their solidarity with the people of the United States by shouting “F— ICE”?

Here you go:

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By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, February 20, 2026

I’m on a U.S. delegation to Venezuela. We arrived Friday.

Less than two months ago, the U.S. government bombed this place, sending missiles and a huge number of planes and helicopters into Caracas, and kidnapped the president and his wife. Ships and a submarine are still nearby. Every few days we read about the crew of another Venezuelan boat being murdered. A blockade is in place, as is one on Cuba. Yet attention passes on to newer catastrophes read more

The U.S. government (aged 75, 6 feet tall, 275 pounds) plans to build a military base in Gaza. I have some hopes that this will be shockingly offensive to some people in the United States. But it will be modeled on almost 900 other bases that the U.S. military uses outside the United States. This coming weekend, people are protesting military bases all over the world.

Reports The Guardian: “It is unclear who owns the land where the military compound is set to be built, but much of the read more

Tied up with the apparently very longstanding tradition of claiming that all opponents of atrocities are purely engaged in what has recently been called “virtue signaling” is the idea that only certain types of people are qualified to protest certain things — or to ever say or do anything decent at all.

By David Swanson, Progressive Hub, February 13, 2026

Columbia University professor Bruce Robbins exposed his students to possible criticism of the Israeli military, and was for that reason read more

Step one: make a scary headline. Use the word nuclear without ever specifying energy or weapons. As “raise taxes” is simply short for “raise taxes on billionaires,” “nuclear” is simply short for “nuclear weapons that are about to kill you be very, very afraid.”

Step two: Bury in the article something closer to reality, and include a hyperlink, as if there is some sort of evidence to be cited.

Step three: at the hyperlink call the whole read more