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The Sorrows of Vlad the Conqueror
Striding masterfully through St. George’s Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace, Vlad the Conqueror turned his thoughts once again to his place in the pantheon of History’s Immortals.
“Victory follows victory for my splendid military forces,” he assured himself. “I have halted the offensive of the Ukrainian bandits and demonstrated to the world that a great nation―commanded by a great leader!―is unstoppable.”
“Of course,” he noted bitterly, “our national enemies will point to
Canada Requires Peace Groups to Support War If They Want Charitable Status
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, December 27, 2023
In the United States, if you donate money to World BEYOND War, you can deduct that donation from the amount of money on which you pay taxes to fund the U.S. government, which uses over half of the income taxes it brings in to fund the U.S. military. World BEYOND War will then take that funding and use it to educate people about the need to abolish militaries. So it’s a double whammy for peace.
In Canada, we in the United States like to think,
Talk World Radio: Should New Zealand Abolish its Military?
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Speaking Truth to Empire
On Speaking Truth to Empire on KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno, Camille Russell (substituting for Dan Yaseen) interviews Alison Weir, she is an
author, researcher and columnist. She is the founder and executive director of “If Americans Knew,” a nonprofit organization dedicated to educate and inform Americans on Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which is misreported or under-reported in the American media. She is the author of Against Our Better Judgment:
Tomgram: Michael Klare, Another Major War in 2024?
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Honestly, as 2021 ended, if I had predicted a Russian invasion of and unrelenting globalized war in Ukraine in 2022 and, in 2023, an explosion in the Middle East, beginning with a horrific Hamas incursion into Israel followed by the utter devastation of Gaza (while the Greater Middle East
Talk World Radio: Jeff Cohen on What’s Wrong with Corporate Media and What Kind of Media Would End All War
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Tomgram: Juan Cole, Greenwashing the Planet
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Yes, “the world” just gathered in the United Arab Emirates, a major oil producer, to decide the fate of our planet. And among those attending COP28 were at least 1,300 fossil-fuel lobbyists (three times the
Tomgram: Mattea Kramer and Sean Fogler, This Holiday Season, We’re Lonely
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Today, TomDispatch regular Mattea Kramer and Doctor Sean Fogler offer a vivid, moving, and deeply personal look at addiction in America as 2023 ends. They focus above all on perhaps the most dangerous, even devastating, addiction around. I’m thinking, of course,
Tomgram: Norman Solomon, What Daniel Ellsberg Knew About Doomsday
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In my childhood, we at least acknowledged the ominous existence of nuclear weapons, no matter how weirdly. I’m thinking about those times we kids spent at school “ducking and covering” under our