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Although the nations of the world have pledged to respect a system of international law and global responsibility, the recent behavior of several countries provides a sharp challenge to this arrangement.
For over three years, the Russian government has conducted a brutal military invasion, occupation, and annexation of Ukraine―the largest and most devastating military operation in Europe since World War II. Defying Russia’s
In April 1966, Senator J.W. Fulbright, Chair of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, gave a remarkable and highly-publicized speech at Johns Hopkins University, condemning the U.S. role in the Vietnam War. Warning of “the arrogance of power,” Fulbright argued that “we are not living up to our capacity and promise as a civilized power for the world.” It turned out to be a momentous speech, enraging President Lyndon
On Speaking Truth to Empire on KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno, Dan Yaseen interviews
Joe Lombardo, a long time antiwar and anti-Empire activist, he is the co-coordinator of the United National Antiwar Coalition. UNAC a national antiwar coalition that fights against wars at home and abroad. They discuss Trump’s first month in the White House and how will it affect our foreign and domestic policies.
Will the world ever be free of the menace of nuclear annihilation?
There was a promising start along these lines during the late twentieth century, when―pressed by a popular upsurge against nuclear weapons―the nations of the world adopted a succession of nuclear arms control and disarmament agreements. Starting with the Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963, these agreements helped curb the nuclear arms race and prevent nuclear war.
But the tide gradually turned during the final years of the twentieth
“Speaking Truth to Empire” on KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated in Fresno since 1975, Dan Yaseen interviews Jodie Evans, co-founder of CODEPINK, she has been a peace, environmental, women’s rights and social justice activist for over forty-five years. She has traveled extensively to war zones promoting and learning about peaceful resolutions to conflicts. Jodie has produced several acclaimed documentary films. They discuss Gaza Ceasefire, unprecedented rise of China,
“Speaking Truth to Empire” on K
FCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno, Dan Yaseen interviews John V. Walsh, he is a retired Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience from the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School. He writes about issues of war, peace, empire, health care and geopolitics for Antiwar.com, Consortium News, Asia Times, San Francisco Chronicle, East Bay Times, San Jose Mercury News, LA Progressive and other websites.
On Speaking Truth to Empire on KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno, Dan Yaseen interviews
Ramzy Baroud, a US-Palestinian journalist, media consultant, an author, internationally-syndicated columnist, and the Editor of The Palestine Chronicle. He is the author of six books and a contributor to many others; his latest volume , co-edited with Ilan Pappe is “Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders and Intellectuals Speak Out”.
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
On Speaking Truth to Empire on KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno, Dan Yaseen interviews Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Professor Emeritus from Bowling Green State University, Ohio and from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He is an author, blogger and a geopolitical analyst. They discuss American Imperial wars in Ukraine and Palestine, pager explosions in Lebanon and Putin’s warning to US and NATO. You can access
Are the nations of the world doomed to go on fighting the brutal, horrifying wars that have long characterized human history?
We might well wonder about that as we watch, aghast, while Israeli armed forces slaughter thousands of Palestinian civilians, Russian military might relentlessly pounds Ukrainian towns and cities into rubble, and new, bloody wars erupt in numerous other lands.
Why does such widespread destruction and human suffering persist in the modern, ostensibly “civilized,” world?
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