Special Project | An Armistice Day Holiday Reader

• Part 1: Celebrate the Kellogg-Briand Pact–Banning All War ~ David Swanson
• And we need to make tomorrow, August 27th, a war abolition holiday, apeace holiday, Kellogg-Briand Pact of Paris Strangest Dream Another World Is Possible Day. Tear down a war monument. Raise up a peace treaty.
• Part 2: On Armistice Day, Let’sCelebratePeace .
• Armistice Day gives us an opportunity to acknowledge the brutal futility of armed conflict, the wastefulness of our military spending, and the responsibility we share to abolish all wars.
• Related: The Living Reality of Military-Economic Fascism ~ Robert Higgs

Compiled by David Culver, Ed., Evergreene Digest

Part 1: Celebrate the Kellogg-Briand Pact–Banning All War ~ David Swanson

And we need to make tomorrow, August 27th, a war abolition holiday, a peace holiday, Kellogg-Briand Pact of Paris Strangest Dream Another World Is Possible Day. Tear down a war monument. Raise up a peace treaty.

David Swanson, Dandelion Salad

Remarks at Veterans For Peace Convention, St. Paul, Minnesota, August 26, 2018.

Image by Thomas Hawk via Flickr August 30, 2018 | There are a lot of things named Kellogg around here, and few who know why. The two biggest names in the news in 1928 were those of future white supremacist Charles Lindbergh and of Frank Kellogg. One of those names has lasted longer.
Frank Kellogg was a U.S. Secretary of State, and probably the one most worth teaching people about.
 

David Swanson  is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is director of WorldBeyondWar.org and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org. Swanson’s books include Curing Exceptionalism: What’s wrong with how we think about the United States? What can we do about it? (2018) and War Is A Lie. He blogs at DavidSwanson.org and WarIsACrime.org. He hosts Talk Nation Radio. He isa 2015, 2016, 2017 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee.

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Part 2: On Armistice Day, Let’s Celebrate Peace .

Armistice Day gives us an opportunity to acknowledge the brutal futility of armed conflict, the wastefulness of our military spending, and the responsibility we share to abolish all wars.

Kathy Kelly, Voices for Creative Nonviolence / Progressive

November 10, 2018 | Wilfred Owen, an English poet who was killed in action exactly one week before the Armistice that finally ended World War I was signed, wrote about the horrors of living in trenches and enduring gas warfare.

In “The Parable of the Old Man and the Young,” he revises the Biblical narrative about Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son, Isaac. Believing God willed the slaughter, Abraham prepared to bind Isaac and slay him. Owen transforms Abraham into the European powers who were willing to slaughter youthful generations in the trenches of World War I.

Kathy Kelly co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence.

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Related:

The Living Reality of Military-Economic Fascism ~ Robert Higgs, Robert Higgs, Mises Institute / Straight Line Logic

• An in-depth study of the military-industrial racket by Robert Higgs at Mises Institute <mises.org>:
• “The business of buying weapons that takes place in the Pentagon is a corrupt business — ethically and morally corrupt from top to bottom. The process is dominated by advocacy, with few, if any, checks and balances. Most people in power like this system of doing business and do not want it changed.” – Colonel James G. Burton (1993, 232)
• Related: Of A Lot of Arms and Some Very Bad Men

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