Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, The Russian Nightmare and Us

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I began TomDispatch a century or so ago (just kidding!) in response to a piece I read in the mainstream media soon after the Bush administration launched its post-9/11 invasion of Afghanistan. The reporter — and I no longer remember who it was — pointed out that U.S. air power was starting to bomb places the Russians had turned into rubble in their Afghan War late read more

Video: Are We in World War III?

Chair: Rita Payne, President Emeritus, Commonwealth Journalists Association

Speakers:

Vijay Mehta, Chair, Uniting for Peace, Author, How Not To Go To War, Board Member, GAMIP (Global Alliance for Ministries and Infrastructures for Peace) (UK)

Medea Benjamin,  Political Activist, Co-Founder of CodePink, Author, War in Ukraine (USA)

Tony Robinson, Editor, Pressenza – An International News Agency and Author, Coffee with Silo and the quest for meaning in life (UK)

Joseph Gerson, Peace read more

The U.S. Public Opposes Sending Weapons That Are Sent Anyway Because Democracy

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, October 24, 2023

I don’t recall getting to vote on sending more weapons to four wars at a time in the name of democracy, do you?

Has anybody asked you whether you agree with the media’s universal consensus that having a House Speaker who could facilitate the prolongation, escalation, and creation of numerous wars would be obviously better than not having a House Speaker?

Has a single member of the House even agreed to shut up and stop speaking during what should read more

In the Words of War Expert George W. Bush, Is Our Children Learning?

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, October 19, 2023

Remarks on October 19 at Uniting for Peace Conference

Likely place to find video: https://unitingforpeace.com

For Western media consumers, Yemen, Syria, Sudan, Azerbaijan, and various other ongoing wars might as well not exist. But Joe Biden is seeking money from the U.S. Congress for four wars at once, so that he can pay the world’s largest merchants of death to ship massive piles of free weapons to Ukraine, Israel, and (even if it’s not a read more