War No More: The Case for Abolition

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David Swanson. War No More: The Case for Abolition

Advance Praise for War No More

FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION

I. WAR CAN BE ENDED. Slavery Was Abolished

A Good Civil War?

Existence Precedes Essence

Blood Feuds and Duels

Dueling

International Duels: Spain, Afghanistan, Iraq

Spain

Afghanistan

Iraq

War Is Optional

Wars Against Individuals

The Really Good War in the Future

Small-Scale State Killing

Other Types of Violence Declining

Ideas Whose Time Has Come

Who Fights the Most

Follow the Money

Public Opinion v. War

Human Hunting

Do We Have No Choice?

Puppets of Sociopaths?

The All-Powerful Military Industrial Complex

“We Can’t End War If They Don’t End War”

It’s in Our Heads

But Why Is It in Our Heads?

II. WAR SHOULD BE ENDED

“Defense” Endangers Us

An Unusual Hearing With Something to Be Heard

When Is Murder Not Murder?

Who Would Carry Out Such Disastrous Policies?

We’re Endangering Others Too, Not Protecting Them

So What Should We Do?

A War on Genocide?

The Case of Libya

The Case of Syria

You Can’t Use War to End War

The Wrong Kind of War Opposition

The Costs of War

Another World Is Possible

“There Never Was A Good War or a Bad Peace” or How to Be Against Both Hitler and War

III. WAR IS NOT GOING TO END ON ITS OWN

Counting Bodies

One Big Atrocity

Recent Wars

Counting Dollars

Who Says War Is Vanishing?

Our Wars Aren’t Bad Like Your Wars

“There Is Evil in the World”

The MIC

IV. WE HAVE TO END WAR

The Danger of Obedience

Governments Pretend to Ignore Activism

Doing Nothing Is Obeying A Deadly Order

What Then Must We Do?

Lies: The Worst Ones Come After a War

Public Opinion, Without Action, Cannot Prevent Another War

Celebrity War Games

A Process Toward Peace

Outlawing War

War the Crime, not “War Crimes”

A Global Rescue Plan

Educate, Organize, Get Active

Acknowledgments

About David Swanson

About Kathy Kelly

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We do not care-

That much is clear.

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Is much against

The will.

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