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Here’s a question for you: Can you rely on this country? Or have we, at least enough of us, gone stark raving mad in these last years? At the moment only 32% of Republican voters believe that election 2020 was
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, February 4, 2021
If the U.S. government follows through on what President Joe Biden said today about Yemen, that war’s days are numbered.
If the rest of us learn the appropriate lessons, the war on Afghanistan should start picking out a tomb stone.
Biden said the U.S. military was ceasing to participate in the war on Yemen, and that the United States would be ending any “relevant arms sales.”
Making sure those statements are held true in the ordinary sense
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As I started writing an initial draft of this introduction to TomDispatch jock culture correspondent Robert Lipsyte’s piece on this weekend’s Super Bowl, I put down the Miami Dolphins as one of the teams playing. (No, you dope, it’s the Tampa Bay Buccaneers!) This tells me everything I need to know about sports and me in 2021 and, believe me, it couldn’t be stranger.
From
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, Febuary 4, 2021
Why would I say such an outrageous, treasonous, delusional, OBVIOUSLY-funded-by-Putin thing? Am I hoping to enrage war-crazed sadists who’ve seen too much television “news”?
Not at all. I want them to still be around when I say that it would actually be preferable for the United States to pay reparations to the entire rest of the earth.
Well, then, why would I say such a thing, and exactly what type of mental disorder would allow
By Dave Lindorff
A fawning liberal media and a passel of well-endowed ‘peace’ organizations like Plowshares and Council for a Livable World and self-described “progressive” organizations like MoveOn have been hailing Biden’s cabinet picks, many of them veterans of the Obama administration, claiming they will steer the US in a new direction under which diplomacy, not bluster and military threats, will be the default policyBa.
And yet right out of the box
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Once upon a time, the Europeans had the copyright on naming lengthy wars: the Hundred Years’ War, the Eighty
This week on Talk Nation Radio, putting your body in front of weapons shipments and organizing for peace. Our guest is Rachel Small, Canada Organizer for World BEYOND War, an organization of which I’m the executive director. Rachel Small is a community organizer based in Toronto, Canada, on Dish with One Spoon and Treaty 13 Indigenous territory. She has organized within local and international social/environmental justice movements for over a decade, with a special focus on working in solidarity
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Been There, Done That (Not!)
The Imperial Presidency Comes Home to Roost
Joe Biden’s got a problem — and so do I. And so, in fact, do we.
At 76 years old, you’d think I’d experienced it all when it comes to this country and its presidencies. Or most of it, anyway. I’ve been around since Franklin D. Roosevelt was president. Born on July 20, 1944, I’m a little “young”
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It’s ever more obvious that the forever wars the U.S. military has been fighting for almost two decades are coming home, especially in the wake of the creation of a Baghdad-style “Green Zone” in