David Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is executive director of
@WorldBeyondWar
and campaign coordinator of
@Roots_Action
You are required to condemn Hamas rapes you have no evidence happened. You are forbidden to condemn the mass murder happening before your eyes. This from the society that screams about following the science.
@tparsi
@KatrinaNation
If Belgium tries to do anything, Biden will threaten to move NATO HQ again. To which the proper response would be: Hell yes, and I know just where you can stick it.
There seems to be a competition between Netanyahu in Israel and Zelensky in Ukraine for who can get the U.S. military into a big new war first, while the wiser, cooler heads in Washington are above it all and intent on getting into a world-destroying war on China.
I thought Nina Turner would be a different sort of candidate for Congress. I contacted her re the absence of foreign policy from her website at ninaturner dot com / issues and ended up with her campaign manager telling me on the phone that . . .
@PplsCityCouncil
They literally made a movie called Bev Hills Cop many many years ago and joked about black people getting arrested for jay walking if they got thrown out of a moving car
@EdFelten
@chrislhayes
Who's up for learning what a cluster bomb is and how many children's neighborhoods around the world the U.S. government and its Sacred Tax Dollars have littered with them without anybody proclaiming that any particular Lives Matter?
The day after Woodstock David Crosby told Dick Cavett on his TV show that to survive they'd need to shut down the automobile and oil companies, and Cavvett replied but those are my sponsors. It was very light and funny and unthinkable that the hippies were right.
#MemorialDay
is one of the 365 days a year when it's good to remember that over 90% of the victims of war are civilians, over 90% of the victims of U.S. wars are not from the U.S., and over 90% of media war talk is meant to glorify mass murder.
foreign policy was in their "internal platform," that the public platform was what people in Ohio's 11th district care about and are impacted by (as if Senator Turner believes that military spending doesn't impact people in her district), & that Turner hasn't been elected yet ...
Forty-eight hours before a global peace conference in Vienna, Austria, was to begin, the venue host abruptly cancelled. Peace, it seems, cannot be discussed, especially peace in Ukraine. WorldBEYONDWar
Twitter Deletes Dozens of Russian Accounts for “Undermining Faith in NATO”
FORGIVE ME, TWITTER, FOR I HAVE SINNED. I DOUBTED THE BENEFITS TO AFGHANISTAN AND LIBYA. I WILL SAY 10 HAIL RAYTHEONS.
(as if campaign websites should be developed post-election), and that there just wasn't space (as if the internet has applied a limit to websites). The campaign manager denied any other motivation and claimed that they might someday add foreign policy to their website. Sigh.
@defendATLforest
@OccupyWallStNYC
People in warzone with no homes or electricity know what's happening at the college down the street from people who do not and do not bother. Time to wake up vastly more of the U.S. public!
Not only is military pollution excluded from climate agreements, but military travel is excluded from pandemic travel bans. Thousands of U.S. troops just entered Norway and started spreading Coronavirus in order to do war-with-Russia rehearsals.
Former US intelligence people are pushing the “Tulsi is a Russian asset” line. That’s not at all suspicious, amirite?
For all those progressives dogpiling on Tulsi, just wait. Soon this will be used against Bernie too.
@SenSanders
Blood up to your shoulders. Do you have to be pressured and educated on every little variation? Didn't you finally discover that Palestinians were humans?
USA:
4% of world population.
30% of COVID-19 infections.
25% of COVID-19 deaths.
25% of prison population.
50% of military spending.
80% of foreign arms sales.
95% of foreign military bases.
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
The thing is people will get upset about the $5 million for rebuilding Gaza, and it will sound big to them, and you'll be able to point out that the $3.8 billion every year for destroying Gaza is big too.
@USArmy
When this is what the people you claim all the wars are to "support" have to say, I'm betting you're not going to start a thread for people from Iraq, Afghanistan, Paklistan, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Libya to explain to you how grateful they are for being bombed.
Know why they debated the legality of killing Assange? Because they didn't want to do it with a missile. Know why? Because in London there are a lot of white, English-speaking people around.
Things we "can't afford":
• a decent pandemic response
• a $2,000 check
• Medicare 4 All
• a Green New Deal
• a $15 minimum wage
Things we can afford so well nobody even mentions the price:
• THIS BULLSHIT --->
The
@NYTimes
celebrates genocide. I couldn't be more glad of the extent to which BL are starting to M. But what about NON-AMERICAN LIVES? WHEN WILL THEY MATTER? "Malcolm Gladwell on the Hard Decisions of War"
A whole bunch of Congress Members say the Constitution forbids starting this particular war. Not a one of them mentions that the Constitution requires impeachment for such things.
@MorePerfectUS
@bravenewfilms
The interesting stat is how many millions of people died for lack of food and medicine whom he could have saved without feeling it at all.
Jesus H Fucking Christ I could give a shit about
#NeeraTanden
's incivility. It's her wanting Libya 2 pay 4 being bombed. It's her opposition to M4A, Soc.Secrty, and a GND. Can this rotten country come up with a media outlet capable of a single serious thought?
#RejectTanden
The U.S. military wants to fly small nuclear power plants into wars in order to power the wars' weaponry. Because there was some chance we might not all die fast enough if nothing this stupid was tried.
@halalflow
@jeremyscahill
@ryangrim
Always nice to see good questions asked. Yet never have I seen an answer -- I don't mean a good answer; I mean any sort of answer at all. These people talk pure air.
Forget BDS.
STOP GIVING THE ISRAELI DEATH SQUADS $3.8 BILLION U.S. DOLLARS EVERY YEAR.
WTF IS THE MATTER WITH CONGRESS?
IS THERE 1 MEMBER WHO WILL COMMIT TO VOTING IT DOWN?
FREE
FREE
PALESTINE
In a survey of children born without limbs in Fallujah my guess is about zero would be impressed by the US government and corporate media's newfound denunciations of "war crimes."
The last time the Dems won the majority they escalated the war on Iraq they'd been elected to end. Luckily they haven't been elected to do anything this time.
After very careful consideration I've concluded that in resigning the Secretary of the Navy has done the right thing and that every member of the U.S. military should immediately do the same.
Bloomberg claims he's giving his money all away. He's blatantly lying. He's spending much of it on an idiotic presidential campaign. MSNBC knows this because he's giving lots to them.
@aaronjmate
The U.S. took no action against the Nazi holocaust. The U.S. refused to accept its doomed victims to be. The war led to the escalation of the holocaust. The war itself killed vastly more people than the holocaust. Rescuing survivors was no priority for the U.S. -- And connecting
The baby is born. The mother meets with the doctor. They take care of the baby. They wrap the baby beautifully. And then the United States military bombs the hospital.
@CIA
Jesus God Damn, people, not when there's coffee in my mouth! There are no secret unaccountable lawbreaking 8th-amendment-shredding war-waging agencies in the U.S. Constitution.
@adam_abusalah
@aaronjmate
@JoeBiden
Also humans who don't identify with only a little group but with everyone on Earth: Can't kill our people and then ask for our vote.
@SarcasmStardust
@caitoz
Know why they debated the legality of killing Assange? Because they didn't want to do it with a missile. Know why? Because in London there are a lot of white, English-speaking people around.
@JoaquinCastrotx
@shireen818
If you're in Netanyahu's cabinet you're IN A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. What's the big deal if you used to be in a different one?
@ThePlumLineGS
@JasonLeopold
Even if I had the good luck to get $500, how would it outweigh health insurance having jumped by $2000? Who cheers for this BS?
If in 2020 we can start honestly calling "officer involved deaths" murder, in what year will we be able to honestly call "humanitarian military interventions" murder?