Tomgram: Engelhardt, Declining (The) Donald
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The Empire Is Going Down But What Isn’t? ByHe’s the man of the hour (and you can choose your hour), win, lose, or draw. I mean, who can deny it? Certainly not the crowd at his debate with Kamala Harris that, as he reminded
Speaking Truth to Empire
On Speaking Truth to Empire on KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno, Dan Yaseen interviews Ray McGovern. Ray is a veteran CIA officer turned political activist. Ray was a CIA analyst from 1963 to 1990. Ray’s duties included chairing National Intelligence Estimates and preparing the President’s Daily Brief. He received the Intelligence Commendation Medal at his retirement, he returned the medal in 2006 to protest the CIA’s
Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, The Missing War on Poverty in the Era of Climate Change
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It doesn’t matter whether you’re talking about heat (staggering records continue to be set across the American West) or storms (Category 5 hurricane Milton just followed Category 4 hurricane Helene over the ever-hotter waters of the Gulf of Mexico and clobbered Florida).
If only, in terms of the weather, everything were indeed parenthetical. Sadly, if that was ever true,
Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, The New Cold War Comes to Asia
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Yes, it’s hard even to remember (if you aren’t of a certain advanced age), but I grew up in a world where the two superpowers, the United States and Russia, both increasingly armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons and so unable to fight each other directly without the possibility of the planet going up in flames, engaged in what came to be known as a Cold War. Meanwhile,
From National Security to International Security
Have human institutions evolved sufficiently to cope with the modern world? When it comes to national security, the answer appears to be: No.
Ever since the emergence of individual nations, their governments have sought to secure what they consider their “interests” on an ungoverned planet of competing nations. Amid this international free-for-all, nations tended to pursue national security or national advantage through military might.
Of course, the downside of this arrangement was that
Talk World Radio: Feroze Sidhwa on Israel Shooting Children in Head
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The U.S. Military Base Empire: Its Impact and the Resistance to it, with David Swanson (a WIRN Webinar)
By Massachusetts Peace Action, October 11, 2024
Ending all wars means closing all military bases. The United States of America, unlike any other nation, maintains a massive network of foreign military bases around the world, over 900 bases in more than 90 countries and territories. These bases are costly in a number of ways: financially, politically, socially, and environmentally. U.S. bases in foreign lands often raise geopolitical tensions, support undemocratic regimes, and serve as a recruiting
Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Qualified Recipient for First Time in at Least Six Years
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, October 11, 2024
Congratulations are in order for Nihon Hidankyo, the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations. The Nobel Peace Prize has for the first time in at least six years gone to a group of people who work to reduce warmaking, people who in fact seek to abolish nuclear weapons. Nihon Hidankyo has relentlessly done the work of educating the world, thanklessly, for many years. This prize should be celebrated far and wide.
Congratulations
Tomgam: Joshua Frank, The New Climate Colonialism
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Consider this strange (or perhaps not strange enough): we’re now on a planet where, in late September, the temperature reached a record-breaking 117