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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.
The U.S. govt hasn't flipped from killing people far away for you to killing you. All those people it was killing far away were never for you, and you should never have allowed it, as it was this same evil on a larger scale. #AbolishICE
January 25, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Can we finally reverse the news stories and have reports on the threat of possibly NOT shutting the U.S. government down?
January 25, 2026 at 2:07 AM
more war, more ICE, and not a damn thing of any use to anyone. just another day in the U.S. Congress.
January 23, 2026 at 2:42 AM
Minneapolis is in good company worldbeyondwar.org/militarism-m...
January 22, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Hey Trump-hates-NATO-therefore-NATO-good suckers, Trump and NATO are making evil plans together. How's your brain?
January 22, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Filling Greenland with U.S. Bases Would Not Be a Win for Peace

Trump’s approach to Greenland has something in common with his (Cutting-)Board of Peace approach to Palestine: not even the slightest pretense of involving the people impacted. The residents of Kalaallit Nunaat were never asked about…
Filling Greenland with U.S. Bases Would Not Be a Win for Peace
Trump’s approach to Greenland has something in common with his (Cutting-)Board of Peace approach to Palestine: not even the slightest pretense of involving the people impacted. The residents of Kalaallit Nunaat were never asked about the existing permissions for the U.S. military to build bases in their land and are not being asked now about a “deal” made between Trump and, not even Denmark but, Trump’s servant, the Secretary General of NATO.
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January 22, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Do people in Minneapolis think being bombed by Iran would help? Do people in Tehran think being bombed by the U.S. would help? Or is it just the goddamned bomb makers who think such things?
January 21, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Trump met with his employee, the SG of NATO, and made a deal with Greenland? Sort of like his peace deal with Palestinians that has never involved, you know, Palestinians?
January 21, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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As U.S. leaders talk openly about taking control of #Greenland, the ice is literally exposing the past: Camp Century, a secret U.S. #nuclear base, buried with radioactive and toxic waste.

This is what the U.S. #military leaves behind when it “shows up.”
NASA rediscovers secret military base buried under Greenland’s ice sheet - Futura-Sciences
It was purely by chance that a NASA team stumbled upon a long-lost American military base buried deep beneath Greenland’s ice. Hidden for more than sixty years, its remains were rediscovered thanks…
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January 14, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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January 21, 2026 at 10:00 AM
I asked the Pentagon's AI to give me an image of the Board of Peace.
January 21, 2026 at 4:20 PM
No, War on Iran Is Not Peace

I discussed Iran and global madness in this interview with Mark Dunlea.
No, War on Iran Is Not Peace
I discussed Iran and global madness in this interview with Mark Dunlea.
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January 21, 2026 at 4:03 PM
First they laugh at you. Then they claim Cuba has a magic weapon. They they claim that actually they are the ones who have it. Then they actually have it. Then you die. www.commondreams.org/us-secret-so...
'No One Else Has It,' Claims Trump When Asked About 'Secret Sonic Weapon' Used in Venezuela | Common Dreams
"We have weapons that no one knows about," claimed the US president. "It's probably better not to talk about it, but we have amazing weapons."
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January 21, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Europe Pretends to Talk About Self-Respect While Coated with U.S. Military Bases

Dear European governments, look at the map of U.S. military bases above and tell us again about your self-respect, about how you’re going to fight Trump in Greenland (where he also has a military base), about all the…
Europe Pretends to Talk About Self-Respect While Coated with U.S. Military Bases
Dear European governments, look at the map of U.S. military bases above and tell us again about your self-respect, about how you’re going to fight Trump in Greenland (where he also has a military base), about all the military violence metaphors in your newspapers’ columns about trade policies, but understand that we know about the thing you’ve never mentioned: the empire of bases.
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January 21, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Talk World Radio: Hartzell Gray on Running for Congress in Missouri

AUDIO: Talk World Radio is recorded on Zoom. Here is this week's video and all the videos on Youtube.
Talk World Radio: Hartzell Gray on Running for Congress in Missouri
AUDIO: Talk World Radio is recorded on Zoom. Here is this week's video and all the videos on Youtube.
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January 20, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Trump Calls the Rights of the Chagossian People “NO REASON WHATSOEVER”

Associated Press reports: “‘Shockingly, our “brilliant” NATO Ally, the United Kingdom, is currently planning to give away the Island of Diego Garcia, the site of a vital U.S. Military Base, to Mauritius, and to do so FOR NO…
Trump Calls the Rights of the Chagossian People “NO REASON WHATSOEVER”
Associated Press reports: “‘Shockingly, our “brilliant” NATO Ally, the United Kingdom, is currently planning to give away the Island of Diego Garcia, the site of a vital U.S. Military Base, to Mauritius, and to do so FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER,’ said in a post on his social media platform Truth Social. ‘There is no doubt that China and Russia have noticed this act of total weakness.’
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January 20, 2026 at 4:33 PM