It’s all Assad’s fault and the U.S., ISIS, al Nusra, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and anybody who will help should overthrow him come what may.

It’s all a U.S. crime, and Syria, Russia, and Iran should fix it with bombs.

It’s all an ISIS problem that should be solved with U.S. and Russian bombs plus lots more arms for the moderate murderers.

The whole thing is Russia’s fault and it should go home or fight an ever more heavily armed collection of moderate, extremist, read more

By David Swanson, originally published by the Fairbanks Alaska Daily Miner

read more

Just a geography question. Or maybe it’s a different sort of question.

Do a web search for “USS Mason” and you will find countless “news” reports about how this poor innocent U.S. ship has been fired upon, and fired upon again, and how it has fired back “countermeasures” in self-defense.

But you might stumble onto one article from CNN (don’t watch the totally misleading video posted just above the text) that says:

“Officials Saturday night were read more

These people keep emailing me horrific stuff like this:

Mercury Systems Receives $32.5M LTSA for GPS Modules for Precision Guided Munitions Application

CHELMSFORD, Mass., Oct. 13, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Mercury Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:MRCY) (www.mrcy.com), announced it received a long term supplier agreement (LTSA) from a leading defense prime contractor to purchase up to $32.5 million of GPS SAASM receivers for a precision guided munitions application over a three year period. The order was booked in the Company’s 2016 first quarter.

“This long term agreement reflects Mercury Systems’ read more

Listen to “U.S. Deepens Involvement in Yemen with Airstrikes” on Spreaker.

“People always think something’s all true.” —Holden Caulfield

When a wonderful program like Democracy Now does a story on the White Helmets in Syria, the problem is not that the White Helmets don’t exist, or that they’re not rescuing anyone, or that they’re actually filmed in Los Angeles — all of which is ridiculously untrue.

Or perhaps it’s not ridiculous. Syria has been the subject of a tidal read more

Before people had an easy way to see video footage of police murders, headlines crediting the police with just and noble actions couldn’t be effectively questioned.

We’re still back there in the dark ages when it comes to war murders, but we can overcome the lack of quickly shared videos if we choose to. When the headlines celebrate some sort of “victory” in Mosul or anywhere else, we can point out that the videos of people being blown up in their houses would be truly horrific if we had read more

Juan Manuel Santos is not a grassroots advocate for disarmament and the abolition of war. He’s someone who has used war but been willing to turn to peace. He is not in need of funding for his work toward global disarmament and peace because he doesn’t do such work and because he is wealthy. He also is one side of a very tentative and precarious peace effort; why the Nobel Committee would give a prize to one side only in such a situation without considering the harm it could do to the read more

Dear Mr. Swanson:

Thank you for contacting me about the Convention on Cluster Munitions.  I appreciate hearing from you.

A cluster munition is a form of air-dropped or ground-launched explosive weapon designed to open in the air before making contact, dispersing smaller submunitions that can saturate a radius of up to 250 yards.  These bombs are intended for military use when attacking read more