Lisa Fithian has just published a terrific guide to direct action and strategic civil disobedience as the most radical and rapid means to social change, called Shut It Down: Stories from a Fierce Loving Resistance. Fithian has been described by Mother Jones magazine as “the nation’s best-known protest consultant.” She has supported countless movements including the Battle of Seattle in 1999, rebuilding and defending communities following Hurricane Katrina, Occupy Wall Street, and
Tomgram: Hartung and Smithberger, A Trillion-Dollar Future Pentagon Budget?
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In today’s piece, TomDispatch regulars William Hartung and Mandy Smithberger consider ways in which the Pentagon is essentially a family business (if, that is, you think of the weapons makers of the military-industrial complex
Tomgram: Todd Miller, “The American Homeland Is the Planet”
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It was the first moment of Donald Trump’s campaign for the presidency. He memorably rode a Trump Tower escalator into the race to the tune of Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World” and, as everyone still remembers, promptly
Tomgram: Danny Sjursen, Living at War (Forever)
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I’ve never forgotten something that Amr Musa, then head of the Arab League, said in 2004: “The gates of hell are open in Iraq.” That was just a year and a half after the American invasion and occupation of that country. How horrifyingly right he was, though no one paid the slightest
The Two Internationalisms
In recent years, internationalism―cooperation among nations for promotion of the common good―has acquired a bad reputation.
Of course, internationalism has long been anathema to the political Right, where a primitive tribalism and its successor, nationalism, have flourished for many years. Focusing on their nation’s supposed superiority to others, a long line of rightwing demagogues, including Adolf Hitler (“Deutschland
California takes on PFAS contamination while the military is a primary source of the pollution
By Pat Elder, World BEYOND War, September 18, 2019
Fire fighters at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County practice dousing a petroleum fire using carcinogenic foam.
There was an earthquake in California on August 23, 2019, although the ground didn’t move, and few noticed. That was the day California ordered the state’s water systems to establish the nation’s lowest Notification Levels for dangerous Per and Poly Fluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in drinking water.
Two of the deadliest PFAS
World Beyond War: Citizen Diplomats Visit Kungur, Russia
Talk Nation Radio: Kathy Kelly on Peace, Afghanistan, Yemen, Ireland, and the United States
Kathy Kelly has traveled to war zones and lived alongside ordinary people in Afghanistan, Iraq, Gaza, and Lebanon. She and her companions in Voices for Creative Nonviolence believe the U.S. should end all U.S. military and economic warfare and pay reparations for suffering already caused by U.S. wars. Recently, Voices has helped organize vigils, forums, fasts, and nonviolent direct action calling for an immediate end to hostilities driving near famine conditions in Yemen. Kathy Kelly is a member
New Study Documents Depleted Uranium Impacts on Children in Iraq
In the years following 2003, the U.S. military dotted Iraq with over 500 military bases, many of them close to Iraqi cities. These cities suffered the impacts of bombs, bullets, chemical and other weapons, but also the environmental damage of open burn pits on U.S. bases, abandoned tanks and trucks, and the storage of weapons on U.S. bases, including depleted uranium weapons. Here’s a map of some of the U.S. bases:
This map and the other illustrations below have been provided by Mozhgan Savabieasfahani,
Speaking Truth to Empire
Speaking Truth to Empire on KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno, Dan Yaseen interviews Jeff J. Brown; he is a geopolitical analyst, journalist, lecturer and the author of The China Trilogy. It consists of 44 Days Backpacking in China, China Rising – Capitalist Roads, Socialist Destinations and China Is Communist, Dammit! – Dawn of the Red Dynasty. They will discuss U. S. – China trade war, ongoing protests