By David Swanson
“War Is Beautiful” is the ironic title of a beautiful new book of photographs. The subtitle is “The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict”. There's an asterisk after those words, and it leads to these: “(In which the author explains why he no longer reads The New York Times)”. The author never explains why he read the New York Times to begin with.

Reporters Without Borders says it is deeply worried by the United States Supreme Court’s rejection of an appeal by New York Times reporter James Risen on 2 June 2014.

By David Swanson
While I'm working on a campaign to abolish war it's helpful and appreciated that a columnist for one of the most effective war promoting institutions in the world, the New York Times on Sunday mused aloud about why in the world wars are still waged.