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  • Nuking Cities

    No, nuking cities did not save lives

    Originally published: World BEYOND War on August 2, 2025 by David Swanson (more by World BEYOND War)  | (Posted Aug 06, 2025)

    It’s oddly encouraging that the New York Post had to bring up its kookiest rightwing propagandist on Friday to argue that nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved lives.

  • AP photo Palestinians evacuate the wounded after an Israeli bombardment of Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

    NATO/U.S. complicity in the relentless Israeli genocide of Gaza

    Originally published: World BEYOND War on July 17, 2024 by Colonel (Ret) Ann Wright (more by World BEYOND War)  | (Posted Jul 20, 2024)

    As the genocide continued and a few days after the end of the NATO celebrations, an assassination attempt on former President Trump caused President Biden to address the nation and orate that “political violence has no place in America and U.S. politics should never be a killing field.”

  • International Court of Justice Rules That Israel Must Stop Killing Palestinians

    International Court of Justice rules that Israel must stop killing Palestinians

    Originally published: World BEYOND War on January 26, 2024 by David Swanson (more by World BEYOND War)  | (Posted Jan 27, 2024)

    The International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel must cease its warmaking in Gaza–cease committing and inciting genocidal acts–and that the case charging Israel with genocide must proceed.

  • The Pentagon and CIA Have Shaped Thousands of Hollywood Movies into Super Effective Propaganda

    The Pentagon and CIA have shaped thousands of Hollywood movies into super effective propaganda

    Originally published: World BEYOND War on January 5, 2022 by David Swanson (more by World BEYOND War)  | (Posted Feb 08, 2022)

    Propaganda is most impactful when people don’t think it’s propaganda, and most decisive when it’s censorship you never knew happened.

Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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