It's The Blind Partisanship

http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson040215.htm
Date Written:  2015-02-04
Publisher:  Countercurrents
Year Published:  2015
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX17274

Why did the peace movement grow large around 2003-2006 and shrink around 2008-2010? Military spending, troop levels abroad, and number of wars engaged in can explain the growth but not the shrinkage. Those factors hardly changed between the high point and the low point of peace activism.