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by neuro_image2 1615 days ago
This is probably a good time to endorse the work of the World Beyond War.

https://worldbeyondwar.org/

And to remind everyone that militarism is a major public health threat, a significant cause of death, injury, homelessness, and disease, a completely preventable epidemic that consists of the large-scale killing, wounding, impoverishing, making homeless, orphaning, and traumatizing of people.

We need to get past the mentality of trying to DOMINATE every domain in the pursuit of the disease of nationalism.

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> This is probably a good time to endorse the work of the World Beyond War.

That's an interesting website. Take a look at this, it's literally the first link in the "News From the Antiwar Movement" section of their home page right now [1]:

https://worldbeyondwar.org/audio-david-swanson-on-russia-ukr...

> AUDIO: David Swanson on Russia, Ukraine, and War Madness

> By Sputnik, January 13, 2022

> John and Michelle catch up with David Swanson, executive director of World BEYOND War, to talk about the latest developments with NATO and conflict zones around the world. John points out that the direct link between EU membership and increased well-being for the population is questionable. Hungary joined the EU, and that isn’t what happened.

David Swanson is the Executive Director of World Beyond War [2], and that podcast is hosted by Sputnik [3], which is part of the foreign propaganda arm of Russia, which has 100k troops massing along the border of Ukraine and is threatening war [4] (after already invading part of it less than a decade ago).

So, is "World Beyond War" serving as a "human domain" weapon aimed at Western nations, in the service of war?

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20220113142642/https://worldbeyo...

[2] https://worldbeyondwar.org/who/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Per...

[4] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/01/07/world/europe/...

Making that assessment based on one appearance on a podcast is a pretty weak conclusion.

David Swanson has taken several openly anti-Russian positions:

https://davidswanson.org/why-russia-is-crazy/

> David Swanson has taken several openly anti-Russian positions:

> https://davidswanson.org/why-russia-is-crazy/

How could you not notice the obvious sarcasm that drips from every sentence in that article? Those aren't anti-Russian positions, they're pro-Russian positions.