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Saturday, August 1, 2026
The Wars Are Still Based on Lies To our great credit, the current war on Iran is less popular faster than wars of the past. It took a year and a half for a majority to say that the war on Afghanistan or the war on Iraq should not have been started, and even then you didn't have a majority for ending each of those wars.
Saturday, August 1, 2026The Wars Are Still Based on Lies To our great credit, the current war on Iran is less popular faster than wars of the past. It took a year and a half for a majority to say that the war on Afghanistan or the war on Iraq should not have been started, and even then you didn't have a majority for ending each of those wars.
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Saturday, August 1, 2026
New Publication: War Is Still A Lie War Is Still A Lie is an updated third edition of War Is A Lie and includes a new 90-page investigation of how lies about wars have changed. War Is A Lie is a thorough refutation of every major argument used to justify wars, drawing on evidence from numerous past wars, with a focus on those wars that have been most widely defended as just and good.
Saturday, August 1, 2026New Publication: War Is Still A Lie War Is Still A Lie is an updated third edition of War Is A Lie and includes a new 90-page investigation of how lies about wars have changed. War Is A Lie is a thorough refutation of every major argument used to justify wars, drawing on evidence from numerous past wars, with a focus on those wars that have been most widely defended as just and good.
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Saturday, August 1, 2026
Have We Advanced Since Homer? Christopher Nolan and whoever else had a role in this production obviously tried to improve on ancient morality in a particular way and not in another.
Saturday, August 1, 2026Have We Advanced Since Homer? Christopher Nolan and whoever else had a role in this production obviously tried to improve on ancient morality in a particular way and not in another.
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Saturday, July 4, 2026
Deeming Nationalism Infantile Isn't "Hating America" Wow, U.S. social media is suffering a pandemic of nationalism just in time for a celebration of a declaration of the crimes and abuses of King George, a laundry list of horrors that pale beside the accomplishments of any recent U.S. president -- the quaint abuses of his royal highness of the blue piss who in reality was more progressive and less tyrannical than your average 21st century prime minister.
Saturday, July 4, 2026Deeming Nationalism Infantile Isn't "Hating America" Wow, U.S. social media is suffering a pandemic of nationalism just in time for a celebration of a declaration of the crimes and abuses of King George, a laundry list of horrors that pale beside the accomplishments of any recent U.S. president -- the quaint abuses of his royal highness of the blue piss who in reality was more progressive and less tyrannical than your average 21st century prime minister.
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Friday, June 19, 2026
Iran Deserves Better When Iran moved toward a decent democratic government, the UK, U.S., and oil barons destroyed it and put in place a horrendously brutal dictatorship. When Iranians overthrew that dictatorship, religious lunatics seized power and treated the people of Iran so cruelly for so long that many of them longed for that dictatorship -- or the CIA-owned son thereof -- and still do.
Friday, June 19, 2026Iran Deserves Better When Iran moved toward a decent democratic government, the UK, U.S., and oil barons destroyed it and put in place a horrendously brutal dictatorship. When Iranians overthrew that dictatorship, religious lunatics seized power and treated the people of Iran so cruelly for so long that many of them longed for that dictatorship -- or the CIA-owned son thereof -- and still do.
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Sunday, May 24, 2026
If We Had No Military Academies, Who Would Train the Sadists? What do Donald "a whole civilization will die" Trump, Pete "kill all Muslims" Hegseth, Army Secretary who couldn't be found on January 6 Ryan McCarthy, Trump supporters Douglas Macgregor and H.R. McMaster, former CIA Director Mike "we lied, we cheated, we stole" Pompeo and his aides Ulrich Brechbuhl and Brian Bulatao, Trump confidant David Urban, and many U.S.-backed foreign dictators have in common?
Sunday, May 24, 2026If We Had No Military Academies, Who Would Train the Sadists? What do Donald "a whole civilization will die" Trump, Pete "kill all Muslims" Hegseth, Army Secretary who couldn't be found on January 6 Ryan McCarthy, Trump supporters Douglas Macgregor and H.R. McMaster, former CIA Director Mike "we lied, we cheated, we stole" Pompeo and his aides Ulrich Brechbuhl and Brian Bulatao, Trump confidant David Urban, and many U.S.-backed foreign dictators have in common?
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Sunday, May 24, 2026
The Regular Army A phantom presence stalks every page of Kennard's book. It is the regular army, which is never depicted but constantly implied by the depictions of the irregular army.
Sunday, May 24, 2026The Regular Army A phantom presence stalks every page of Kennard's book. It is the regular army, which is never depicted but constantly implied by the depictions of the irregular army.
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Sunday, May 24, 2026
Governments Love Secrecy, But the World's Major Problems Are Not Secret The most important facts are usually the ones that cannot be hidden. Almost everyone can be made to not think about them. But that is a very different thing from being hidden.
Sunday, May 24, 2026Governments Love Secrecy, But the World's Major Problems Are Not Secret The most important facts are usually the ones that cannot be hidden. Almost everyone can be made to not think about them. But that is a very different thing from being hidden.
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Saturday, May 9, 2026
Would You Want Aliens to Meet Neil deGrasse Tyson? Should it bother us how much our official comment-on-aliens guy does to normalize war? Is it overly nostalgic to suggest that I wouldn't have so much minded aliens encountering Carl Sagan when he was that guy?
Saturday, May 9, 2026Would You Want Aliens to Meet Neil deGrasse Tyson? Should it bother us how much our official comment-on-aliens guy does to normalize war? Is it overly nostalgic to suggest that I wouldn't have so much minded aliens encountering Carl Sagan when he was that guy?
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Monday, April 27, 2026
Listen to Smedley Butler This is excerpted and adapted from Swanson's new book, War Is Still A Racket.
Monday, April 27, 2026Listen to Smedley Butler This is excerpted and adapted from Swanson's new book, War Is Still A Racket.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2026
Just Try to Find a Book About Peace on Audible or Amazon At some point it would be useful to have a culture that talked about peace as something other than personal indulgence.
Wednesday, April 22, 2026Just Try to Find a Book About Peace on Audible or Amazon At some point it would be useful to have a culture that talked about peace as something other than personal indulgence.
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Saturday, March 14, 2026
The Bases Basis for the Iran War According to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio the U.S. attacked Iran because Israel was going to attack Iran, likely producing Iranian attacks on U.S. bases. This comment suggested that Israel began a U.S. war, but also that U.S. bases began the war. Neither thing is as unusual as perhaps imagined.
Saturday, March 14, 2026The Bases Basis for the Iran War According to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio the U.S. attacked Iran because Israel was going to attack Iran, likely producing Iranian attacks on U.S. bases. This comment suggested that Israel began a U.S. war, but also that U.S. bases began the war. Neither thing is as unusual as perhaps imagined.
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Wednesday, March 11, 2026
Chuck Schumer: Man of Peace I've talked with a number of people about this latest war who oppose it -- people I don't think have ever before opposed any of the hundreds of endless U.S. bloodbaths of recent history. While I find this vaguely encouraging, I'm struck by their usual next comment: "Well, at least the Democrats are trying their hardest."
Wednesday, March 11, 2026Chuck Schumer: Man of Peace I've talked with a number of people about this latest war who oppose it -- people I don't think have ever before opposed any of the hundreds of endless U.S. bloodbaths of recent history. While I find this vaguely encouraging, I'm struck by their usual next comment: "Well, at least the Democrats are trying their hardest."
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Sunday, March 1, 2026
Stop Trump's New Mass-Murder Spree The latest location where Trump has given the orders to murder people is Iran.
Sunday, March 1, 2026Stop Trump's New Mass-Murder Spree The latest location where Trump has given the orders to murder people is Iran.
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Thursday, February 19, 2026
"-Everyone Is Allowed To Protest 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.
Thursday, February 19, 2026"-Everyone Is Allowed To Protest 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.
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Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Why Not Another Half Trillion Dollars for War? Normally, when one develops all the symptoms of a disease, the response ought not to be exacerbating the disease, but seeking to cure it. Approaches to healthcare in the United States have gone off the rails, of course, but think about the disease of military spending.
Wednesday, February 11, 2026Why Not Another Half Trillion Dollars for War? Normally, when one develops all the symptoms of a disease, the response ought not to be exacerbating the disease, but seeking to cure it. Approaches to healthcare in the United States have gone off the rails, of course, but think about the disease of military spending.
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Friday, January 16, 2026
Our Computers and Televisions Spray Toxic Sludge A television writer named Annie Jacobsen recently tweeted that she'd been "prophetic" when she wrote a real CIA scheme of attacking Venezuela into a fictional program, after which the U.S. government actually attacked Venezuela. Another word would be "propagandistic" -- not in the sense of the direct, immediate lie, but in the sense of the long con. While there have been societies that could not imagine murder, and in which ..
Friday, January 16, 2026Our Computers and Televisions Spray Toxic Sludge A television writer named Annie Jacobsen recently tweeted that she'd been "prophetic" when she wrote a real CIA scheme of attacking Venezuela into a fictional program, after which the U.S. government actually attacked Venezuela. Another word would be "propagandistic" -- not in the sense of the direct, immediate lie, but in the sense of the long con. While there have been societies that could not imagine murder, and in which ..
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Wednesday, January 7, 2026
Basic Sanity is Now Radicalism, and That's a Good Thing We live in a world where feeding grain that could feed 10,000 people to captive animals in order to butcher those animals and eat their dead flesh, thereby feeding 1,000 people and devastating our ecosystems, is unquestionable, where grotesque levels of consumption based on climate and environmental destruction and human exploitation are just part of living, where locking huge numbers of people in cages is deemed a positive...
Wednesday, January 7, 2026Basic Sanity is Now Radicalism, and That's a Good Thing We live in a world where feeding grain that could feed 10,000 people to captive animals in order to butcher those animals and eat their dead flesh, thereby feeding 1,000 people and devastating our ecosystems, is unquestionable, where grotesque levels of consumption based on climate and environmental destruction and human exploitation are just part of living, where locking huge numbers of people in cages is deemed a positive...
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Sunday, December 21, 2025
Model Campaign Platform This is what I think a decent and humane foreign policy section of a congressional campaign website would look like:
Sunday, December 21, 2025Model Campaign Platform This is what I think a decent and humane foreign policy section of a congressional campaign website would look like:
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Friday, December 5, 2025
Top 10 Reasons to Pretend It's Unusual for the U.S. Government to Blow People Up But maybe there are good, or not-so-good, reasons to behave as if Pete Hegseth is the first U.S. government employee to order murders. Maybe these reasons explain the strange silences surrounding us. Here are ten possibilities...
Friday, December 5, 2025Top 10 Reasons to Pretend It's Unusual for the U.S. Government to Blow People Up But maybe there are good, or not-so-good, reasons to behave as if Pete Hegseth is the first U.S. government employee to order murders. Maybe these reasons explain the strange silences surrounding us. Here are ten possibilities...
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