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David Swanson
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David Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is executive director of World BEYOND War and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org. Swanson's books include his latest: NATO What You Need to Know with Medea Benjamin.
So wonderful. Did you even think we would live to see this day? Leading Democrats are debating whether they should pretend to support actually decent policies they'd shunned pretending to support for decades!
November 26, 2025 at 2:56 AM
War on Venezuela Is A Lie

In 2010, I wrote a book called War Is A Lie, with an updated edition in 2016. If I'm lucky and find time -- and maybe if they ease up on the wars for a little while -- I'll get a new version out in 2026. But I can already apply the basic idea of the book to the threatened…
War on Venezuela Is A Lie
In 2010, I wrote a book called War Is A Lie, with an updated edition in 2016. If I'm lucky and find time -- and maybe if they ease up on the wars for a little while -- I'll get a new version out in 2026. But I can already apply the basic idea of the book to the threatened war on Venezuela.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Spoiler: stop whining and learn to love the genocides.
November 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Talk World Radio: The Devil’s Castle

AUDIO: Talk World Radio is recorded on Zoom. Here is this week's video and all the videos on Youtube.
Talk World Radio: The Devil’s Castle
AUDIO: Talk World Radio is recorded on Zoom. Here is this week's video and all the videos on Youtube.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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RootsAction's Emma Claire Foley responds to an article in the establishment security journal Foreign Affairs, which calls for nuclear proliferation among U.S. allies. Its arguments are unsound and understate the willingness of the U.S.’s rivals to respond in kind. ☢️

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The Return of Nuclear Proliferation
A recent article in the establishment security journal Foreign Affairs makes the case for nuclear proliferation among America’s allies. Not only are its arguments unsound, but they also understate…
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November 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Talk World Radio: The Devil’s Castle

AUDIO: Talk World Radio is recorded on Zoom. Here is this week's video and all the videos on Youtube.
Talk World Radio: The Devil’s Castle
AUDIO: Talk World Radio is recorded on Zoom. Here is this week's video and all the videos on Youtube.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Each prison should open a new wing to lock the guards up in. Or we should recognize the absurdity and horror and stop putting people in cages.
November 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Spoiler: stop whining and learn to love the genocides.
November 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
In PART II the entire U.S. Congress is going to be exiled.
November 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
If Trump sees that socialism is too popular to oppose, how does one explain the infinite blindness of most Democrats, other than that winning is not their top priority?
November 22, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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November 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Disobey an Order That Is Illegal Or From Trump (But I Repeat Myself)

A U.S. federal judge ruled Thursday that members of the so-called National Guard occupying Washington, D.C., do so only by obeying illegal orders. At Nuremberg, the U.S. and its allies tried and convicted Nazis despite their…
Disobey an Order That Is Illegal Or From Trump (But I Repeat Myself)
A U.S. federal judge ruled Thursday that members of the so-called National Guard occupying Washington, D.C., do so only by obeying illegal orders. At Nuremberg, the U.S. and its allies tried and convicted Nazis despite their defense that they had been obeying orders, and despite some of the crimes having been invented after the fact for the prosecution. On Tuesday, a group of Congress Members who had all “served” in the war machine published…
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November 21, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Disobey an Order That Is Illegal Or From Trump (But I Repeat Myself)

A U.S. federal judge ruled Thursday that members of the so-called National Guard occupying Washington, D.C., do so only by obeying illegal orders. At Nuremberg, the U.S. and its allies tried and convicted Nazis despite their…
Disobey an Order That Is Illegal Or From Trump (But I Repeat Myself)
A U.S. federal judge ruled Thursday that members of the so-called National Guard occupying Washington, D.C., do so only by obeying illegal orders. At Nuremberg, the U.S. and its allies tried and convicted Nazis despite their defense that they had been obeying orders, and despite some of the crimes having been invented after the fact for the prosecution. On Tuesday, a group of Congress Members who had all “served” in the war machine published…
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November 21, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Breaking: U.S. Supreme Court has barred all prosecutions for murder of anyone who was a controversial guy.
November 19, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Talk World Radio: Greg Mello on Nuclear Testing, Disarmament, and the Trump Problem

AUDIO: Talk World Radio is recorded on Zoom. Here is this week's video and all the videos on Youtube.
Talk World Radio: Greg Mello on Nuclear Testing, Disarmament, and the Trump Problem
AUDIO: Talk World Radio is recorded on Zoom. Here is this week's video and all the videos on Youtube.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
The UN Has Voted to Put the Occupation of Iraq in Charge of Gaza

Ah, those were the days. The UN had been blocked by a worldwide popular movement from approving of a war on Iraq. British Prime Minister Tony Blair had dragged the UK along after secretly demanding that George W. Bush first attack…
The UN Has Voted to Put the Occupation of Iraq in Charge of Gaza
Ah, those were the days. The UN had been blocked by a worldwide popular movement from approving of a war on Iraq. British Prime Minister Tony Blair had dragged the UK along after secretly demanding that George W. Bush first attack Afghanistan, because Blair believed he would be better able to sell a war on Iraq once there was a war on Afghanistan.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Ecuador Rejects Foreign Military Bases

People of Ecuador 1 — Military Industrial Complex 0 In 2007, then-President of Ecuador Rafael Correa said he wanted a military base in Miami if the United States were to continue using a military base in Ecuador. Bye bye, U.S. bases! More recently, however,…
Ecuador Rejects Foreign Military Bases
People of Ecuador 1 — Military Industrial Complex 0 In 2007, then-President of Ecuador Rafael Correa said he wanted a military base in Miami if the United States were to continue using a military base in Ecuador. Bye bye, U.S. bases! More recently, however, times changed. Pressures were applied. A new Ecuadorean government expressed its willingness to do as it is told.
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November 17, 2025 at 3:32 AM
The @NYTimes is still pushing the idea that murdering boaters is illegal because it isn't a war, without ever addressing the problem that war is also illegal under treaties like the UN Charter. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u... The Times does note that Trump claims it is NOT a war or even hostilities.
Memo Approving Boat Strikes Is Said to Rely on Trump’s Claims About Cartels
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November 16, 2025 at 1:16 PM