The last time the U.S. President and UK Prime Minister announced an “Atlantic Charter” it happened in secret, without public involvement, without Congress or Parliament. It laid out plans for shaping the world upon the conclusion of a war that the U.S. President, but not the U.S. Congress and not the U.S. public, was committed to taking part in. It decreed that certain nations would need to be disarmed, and others not. Yet it put forward various pretenses of goodness and fairness that
Talk World Radio: Rivera Sun on Draft Registration and Fiction for Peace
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This week on Talk World Radio: draft registration. Is it unfair to young women not to force them to kill and
Abolishing Police and Abolishing Militaries
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, June 10, 2021
The similarities between the movement to abolish war and the movement to abolish police and prisons jump out at me anew when reading Mariame Kaba’s We Do This ‘Til We Free Us, which is about police and prison abolition. The book has a foreword by Naomi Murakawa that includes this:
“Police push millions of people into the criminal punishment system, where anti-Black death-dealing rises through each circle of hell. Black people comprise 13
The Nuclear Danger Gone?
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, June 8, 2021
You can talk with perfectly intelligent, educated, well-rounded people in the United States who don’t happen to work on trying to save the world from war (this is one of the dangers of relaxing your social distancing, that you run into these people), and when you raise the topic of war they’ll sometimes mention how there used to be a Cold War and a danger of nuclear apocalypse “back in the 80s.”
Just a month ago in U.S.-media-created-reality
Talk World Radio: Alexandra Klein on Ending the Death Penalty
A World Beyond War or No World at All
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, June 7, 2021
Remarks on June 7, 2021, to North Texas Peace Advocates.
In a world beyond war, . . . death, injury, and trauma from violence would be radically reduced, homelessness and immigration driven by fear would be largely eliminated, environmental destruction would slow considerably, government secrecy would lose all justification, bigotry would take a huge setback, the world would gain over $2 trillion and the United States alone $1.25 trillion every year,
A World Beyond War or No World at All
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A Monument Charlottesville Could Be Proud Of
Letter to Daily Progress Editor for Publication
From David Swanson
A Monument Charlottesville Could Be Proud Of
I happened to read an article with photos describing a pair of new monuments in central public spaces, one in a city in Poland and one in a city in Lithuania. Each is a vertical circle about 10 feet high with a possibly marble ring enclosing a round video screen showing in real-time
For Memorial Day, Here Is How We Stop All Wars
By Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG.
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For Memorial Day week, Clearing the FOG speaks with David Swanson, the cofounder and executive director of World Beyond War, an international organization that is working to abolish all war. World Beyond War will hold its annual conference virtually from June 4 to 6. The conference, called “From Weapons Fairs to War Zones: Unraveling the War Machine,” will bring activists together to share how they are stopping weapons corporation
Talk World Radio: Scott Horton on Ending the War on Terrorism
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This Week on Talk World Radio, it’s time to end the terrorism-generating war on terrorism. Our guest is