A blog about a criminal enterprise
By Dave Lindorff
It’s often been noted that countries that go to war tend to adopt the behaviors of their enemies in fighting them, and then bring that war and the techniques they have appropriated home where they begin to apply them domestically.
For at least two decades, since the US in 2001 launched its so-called “War” on Terror following the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon in 2001, the US, under
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, November 20, 2020
Thus far, people in 187 countries have signed this pledge:
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You can sign it too, at https://worldbeyondwar.org/sign
People who sign it have the option of checking various boxes to indicate how they’d most like to get involved in working for peace.
The result is not, as critics will be quick to point out, immediate peace. The result is a huge number of people, organized by location and interest area, working to end war. The result is chapters of
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Yes, tensions are still rising between the world’s greatest emitter of greenhouse gases, historically speaking, and the country emitting the most
Pictured: Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces (MbZ) and some guy.
The New York Times seems to publish a book-length love letter to MbZ about every six
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Yes, he golfed numerous times, gave a double thumbs-up through his car window, and tweeted
This week on Talk Nation Radio: the decision to rule the world. Stephen Wertheim is a historian of U.S. foreign policy. He is Deputy Director of Research and Policy at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He is also a research scholar at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. His terrific new book is called Tomorrow the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy.
Total run time: 29:00
Host: David Swanson.
Producer: David Swanson.
Music
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Let me admit, as a start, that I’m a fan of New Yorker satirist Andy Borowitz. Sadly, our world — and Donald Trump in particular — was made for him. A typical recent Borowitzian
I’m not misusing the word “war” to mean something like the war on Christmas or drugs or some TV pundit whom somebody else insulted. I mean war. There is a new U.S. war in Western Sahara, being waged by Morocco with the support of the U.S. military. The U.S. military, unbeknownst to most people in the United States — it’s perfectly knowable but few give a damn — arms and trains and funds the militaries of the world, inlcuding almost
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Let’s face it, Election 2020, that wild ride to hell and back, took up every inch of space on the media landscape, vote by vote, one outrageous moment after the next, one edge-of-the-seat state count after another. In these last weeks, if you happened to be anywhere in the United States, it wouldn’t have been hard to believe that there was no world out there, nothing but