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A Liberal Lawyer Gives Up on Preventing Murder
24 Mar 2015; posted by the editor - United States

By David Swanson
Rosa Brooks' article in Foreign Policy is called There is no such thing as peacetime. Brooks is a law professor who has testified before Congress to the effect that if a drone war is labeled a proper war then blowing children apart with missiles is legal, but that if it's not properly a war then the same action is murder.

Tags: permawar, anti-war

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Veterans Call for Demilitarization of U.S. Foreign Policy
19 Mar 2015; posted by the editor - Events, United States

Washington, DC.
United States military veterans of several wars, from Vietnam to Iraq to Afghanistan, will call for the demilitarization of U.S. foreign policy, as they mark the 12th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Tags: anti-war, US Veterans

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The Washington Post Will Kill Us All
16 Mar 2015; posted by the editor - Journalism, United States, Iran

By David Swanson
“War with Iran is probably our best option.” This is an actual headline from the Washington Post.

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A Blueprint for Ending War
15 Mar 2015; posted by the editor - Features, International

By David Swanson, originally published by Truthout.org

Excerpted from *A Global Security System: An Alternative to War
In On Violence, Hannah Arendt wrote that the reason warfare is still with us is not a death wish of our species nor some instinct of aggression, “. . .but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.” The Alternative Global Security System we describe here is the substitute.

Tags: Anti-war, war alternative

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A Global Security System: An Alternative to War
09 Mar 2015; posted by the editor - Features

By David Swanson
World Beyond War, a U.S. nonprofit dedicated to ending all war, published this week a guide toward that end, a short book titled A Global Security System: An Alternative to War.

Tags: anti-war

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TV ad airing in Vegas asks drone pilots to refuse to fly
04 Mar 2015; posted by the editor - United States

By David Swanson
This advertisement does a number of things in 15 seconds that U.S. television has not done before. It presents a moral case against drone murders (the U.S. government's terminology, and strictly accurate). It opposes drone murders as illegal. It shows victims. It provides the name and website of an organization opposing drone murders. And it directly asks drone “pilots” to refuse to continue. It also makes the Nuremberg argument that an illegal order need not (in fact must not) be obeyed.

Tags: drones, anti-war

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