Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, Resistance is Fertile (Not Futile)
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Dystopian, yes. Unimaginable, no. In fact, a version of our present moment was imagined more than eight decades ago by novelist Sinclair Lewis who wrote a still readable (if now fictionally clunky) novel, It Can’t Happen Here. Its focus: the election as president of a man we might
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Aiding and Abetting the Tweeter-in-Chief
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The Insult Wars in Washington
How They Blind Us to Our Troubles
By Tom Engelhardt
I don’t tweet, but I do have a brief message for our president: Will you please get the hell out of the way for a few minutes? You and your antics are blocking our view of the damn world and it’s a world we should be focusing on!
Maybe it was the moment, more than a week ago, when
“Ain’t No Such Thing as a Just War” – Ben Salmon, WWI Resister
“Ain’t No Such Thing as A Just War” – Ben Salmon, WWI resister
by Kathy Kelly
July 10, 2017
Several days a week, Laurie Hasbrook arrives at the Voices office here in Chicago. She often takes off her bicycle helmet, unpins her pant leg, settles into an office chair and then leans back to give us an update on family and neighborhood news. Laurie’s two youngest sons are teenagers, and because they are black teenagers in Chicago they are at risk of being assaulted
Silicon Oligarchs Should Save Themselves, Not Us
After the most expensive Congressional election in history saw a spectacular loss by a much-hyped Democrat who included only two policy topics on his entire website: cutting government spending, and running the government more like a corporation, a couple of Silicon Valley would-be Democratic-Party oligarchs have set up a website called “Win the Future” (guess who loses!) to raise money to buy billboards in Washington, D.C., to say things like “cut spending!*”
De-Authorize the Use of Military Force
Last Thursday the U.S. House Appropriations Committee unanimously passed an amendment that would — if passed by the full Congress — repeal, after an 8-month delay, the Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) passed by Congress just after September 11, 2001, and used as a justification for wars ever since.
Also last week, the U.S. Conference of Mayors unanimously passed three resolutions strongly urging Congress to move funding
David Swanson Speaking in Baltimore on July 11
WHEN:
6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m., Tuesday, July 11, 2017
WHERE:
Parish Center – Cathedral of Mary Our Queen
5200 N. Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21210
It’s free. David will have books to sign and sell. Sign up here.
Tomgram: Dilip Hiro, Two Impulsive Leaders Fan the Global Flames
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Every now and then something lodges in your memory and seems to haunt you forever. In my case, it was a comment Newsweek attributed to an unnamed senior British official “close to the Bush team” before the invasion of Iraq in 2003. “Everyone wants to go to Baghdad,”
Essay: Militarism in Christian Context, Past and Present
Militarism in Christian Context Past and Present
EK Knappenberger, for Dr. D.F. Evans; October 2016
Posted to WarIsACrime.org July 2017
“War is a racket, where the few profit and the many pay.”[1]
“War is a force that gives us meaning.”[2]
“War is a lie.”[3]
“War is hell.”[4]
If war is hell, then why do Christians participate in it? There is a disconnect at the heart of the Christian community as it relates to the hell of war.[5] Not only is the violence of war categorically unchristian, as we will briefly demonstrate below, but beyond even that, the attitude of militarism
Nuclear Waste on Highways: Courting Catastrophe
By Ruth Thomas
The federal government has secretly been working on a plan to transport highly radioactive liquid from Chalk River, Ontario, Canada, to the Savannah River Site in Aiken, SC — a distance of over 1,100 miles. A series of 250 truckloads are planned by the Department of Energy (DOE). Interstate 85 is one of the main routes.
Based on published data of the US Environmental Protection Agency, a few ounces of this liquid could destroy a whole city water supply.
These liquid shipments