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Talk World Radio: Bolivia and People Who Don’t Sit Back and Take It
Talk World Radio: Stephen Zunes on Iran
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If We Had No Military Academies, Who Would Train the Sadists?
What do Donald “a whole civilization will die” Trump, Pete “kill all Muslims” Hegseth, Army Secretary who couldn’t be found on January 6 Ryan McCarthy, Trump supporters Douglas Macgregor and H.R. McMaster, former CIA Director Mike “we lied, we cheated, we stole” Pompeo and his aides Ulrich Brechbuhl and Brian Bulatao, Trump confidant David Urban, many U.S.-backed foreign dictators, private-sector mafiosi like John Gotti, and their ilk back through the ages have in common?
They were
The Regular Army
Trump is eager to steal a pile of government money and hand it out to people who tried to overthrow the U.S. government. In the first round of prosecutions of those people, 20% of them were in or had been in the U.S. military. And many of them were in neo-Nazi militias, which targeted veterans for recruitment precisely because they might be skillful in a coup (a concept hardly new to U.S. history). Matt Kennard, who warned about open Nazism in the
Talk World Radio: Abolish the Police
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Governments Love Secrecy, But the World’s Major Problems Are Not Secret
I’ve been reading Truth and Consequence: Reflections on Catastrophe, Civil Resistance, and Hope. It’s a collections of things Daniel Ellsberg wrote and didn’t publish. I come to it having read what he did publish, having spoken with him about some of it, having debated him — publicly and privately — on some of it, and generally and extremely admiring what he had to offer and wishing the whole world would catch up to him. But, apart from some aspects of his personal story and
Talk World Radio: Scott Langley on Abolishing the Death Penalty
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Would You Want Aliens to Meet Neil deGrasse Tyson?
Should it bother us how much our official comment-on-aliens guy does to normalize war? Is it overly nostalgic to suggest that I wouldn’t have so much minded aliens encountering Carl Sagan when he was that guy?
The latest from Neil deGrasse Tyson in the New York Times, suggests that aliens might show up on Earth without having observed it, choosing as their point of arrival of course the capital
Hormuz and We All Lose
By CrossTalk, May 6, 2026
47 Reasons to End War on Iran
Can You please oppose the war on Iran for one of the following 47 reasons? By oppose I do not mean that you claim you oppose it, as if you were a Democrat in Congress hoping to drive down Trump’s approval ratings by keeping the war going while claiming to supposedly oppose it. By oppose I mean try to stop: pressure the media and Congress, educate the public, hold a rally, make a phone call, join a flotilla, sign a petition, start an organization, create a work of art, hand out flyers or