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Tomgram: William Hartung, False Job Claims Fuel Massive Pentagon Budgets
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Imagine for a moment that I told you Congress was suddenly teetering at the edge of passing a $95-billion bill to give many more Americans reasonable health care. No, it really doesn’t
We Asked People to Comment on U.S. Weapons Shipments to Wars
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, February 23, 2024
We asked people to sign this petition and add comments. Here are some of the comments they added:
Stop the weapons shipments, and replace them with diplomacy and a new focus on the human and environmental crises that these wars defund, distract from, and exacerbate.
The arms trade is negative value production that adversely impacts on international currencies as well as life, living standards, and the natural world.
“Mankind must put an end to
Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, What Kind of Jew Am I?
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I grew up in the least-Jewish Jewish family around in the 1950s. We celebrated Christmas every year in a big-time fashion: tree, decorations, and all. And despite the desires of my dear grandmother, there would be no temple, no Sunday Hebrew school, no religion of any sort. I actually went to a Quaker school and I suspect that the first temple I ever entered was at 13 for a
Only The Good Die in Silence
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, February 21, 2024
The father of modern warmaking Henry Kissinger died, and every major media outlet made a lot of noise — millions of articles on the internet. Fair enough. What would contemporary coup-making or genocide be without his seminal work?
But when the father of peace studies Johan Galtung died, not a single corporate media outlet said a single word. Not even an obituary. Not even a paragraph. And even decent people said and knew nothing. And even
Tomgram: Michael Klare, Swarming Our World
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Make no mistake, artificial Intelligence (AI) has already gone into battle in a big-time way. The Israeli military is using it in Gaza on a scale previously unknown in wartime. They’ve reportedly been employing
Talk World Radio: U.S. Weapons Shipments to Israel Are Illegal as Well as Immoral
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“It’s Getting Late”
For some time, it’s been apparent that the world’s nations are not meeting the growing challenges to human survival.
A key challenge comes from modern war.
Over the centuries, as military weapons have grown ever more destructive, war-related devastation has grown accordingly. World War II was the deadliest military conflict in human history, with an estimated 70-85 million people perishing from the war directly or through
Tomgram: Joshua Frank, Waters of Conflict
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All of us now live on one hell (and I do mean hell) of a planet. Just imagine this: June, July, August, September, October, November, December — each was a record-shattering month of heat in 2023, which, not surprisingly, proved to be a
Tomgram: William Astore, Forever War in the Middle East
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War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing.
So that classic late 1960s song claimed. Still, for Bill Astore and me (and, I have little doubt, Joe Biden, too), such a thought didn’t cross our minds as we played with toy