By GCTV with Bill Miller, January 25, 2021
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Why Congress Has to Agree on More Than Just a Defense Bill
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Perhaps the strangest thing about America’s “forever wars” is how little obvious impact they’ve had here. A country — an imperial power, in fact, that liked to think of itself as the planet’s last or “lone” superpower — goes to war for so long (and with so little evident
Talk Nation Radio: Steve Ellner on Ongoing U.S. Efforts to Overthrow Venezuelan Government
Steve Ellner is a retired professor of the Universidad de Oriente in Venezuela and currently an Associate Managing Editor of Latin American Perspectives. He is the author and editor of over a dozen books on Latin American politics and history, his most recent being his edited Latin American Extractivism: Dependency, Resource Nationalism, and Resistance in Broad Perspective (2021). He has published on the op-ed page of the New York Times and Los Angeles Times and in the Nation and is a regular
Outgrowing Religion, Nationalism, and Militarism
Remarks to Phoenix Humanist Society, January 24, 2021
Whether humanism means atheism, or a commitment to questioning all accepted beliefs, or an identification with all of humanity rather than a small sub-group, or a celebration and promotion of all the richness of human culture, I’m in favor of it, and it has a great deal to do with the project I work
Only Rogue States Have Nuclear Weapons
By David Swanson, Executive Director of World BEYOND War, and Elizabeth Murray, of Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action, published by Kitsap Sun, January 24, 2021
From January 18 to February 14, four large billboards are going up around Seattle that proclaim “Nuclear Weapons Are Now Illegal. Get them out of Puget Sound!”
What can this possibly mean? Nuclear weapons may be unpleasant, but what is illegal about them, and how can they be in Puget Sound?
Since 1970, under the Nuclear
Pope’s Words in Open Letter to Joe Biden
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, January 22, 2021
Dear President Joe Biden,
Congratulations and best wishes!
The Pope of your church in October 2020 wrote these words:
“We can no longer think of war as a solution, because its risks will probably always be greater than its supposed benefits. In view of this, it is very difficult nowadays to invoke the rational criteria elaborated in earlier centuries to speak of the possibility of a ‘just war’. Never again war!”242
At footnote 242, Pope Francis
Tomgram: Danny Sjursen, Peering Into a Forever-War Crystal Ball
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More than 19 years ago, the U.S. launched the air war that would become the ground invasion and “liberation” of Afghanistan. More than 17 years ago, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld declared “major combat” over in that
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, The Fall of the American Empire?
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In 1998, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright first referred to the U.S. as “the indispensable nation.” That, of course, was seven years after the Soviet Union had
Talk Nation Radio: Pat Rosenstiel on National Popular Vote
This week on Talk Nation Radio, the National Popular Vote and the Electoral College. Our guest is Pat Rosenstiel with NationalPopularVote.com, which advocates for “The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.”
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