david swanson

Time to Close Our Foreign Military Bases

Jan 17, 2018
The United States cannot be a moral or ethical country until it accepts the realities of U.S. empire and the destruction it causes around the world.
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The U.N.: Pretending to Oppose War for 70 Years — an Open Letter

Sep 28, 2015
This open letter to United Nations Secretary-General Ban-Ki Moon states that the U.N. Charter has "been used to advance and misused to impede the cause of peace," and it calls for "a rededication to [the charter's] original goal of saving succeeding generations from the scourge of war."