On Speaking Truth to Empire on KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno, Dan Yaseen interviews Lisa Savage, an antiwar activist, a retired school teacher and a union negotiator who supports Medicare for All, the Green New Deal and believes public higher education should be tuition free. You can read her blogs at: https://went2thebridge.substack.com/. They discuss Trump and Netanyahu’s unprovoked, unauthorized and unconstitutional War on Iran.
Japan Should Not Violate Laws for the United States
As Ms. Takaichi, the Prime Minister of Japan, meets with the U.S. President on this anniversary of the attack on Iraq with the attack on Iran underway, she should agree to nothing that violates
1. The peace Constitution of Japan, imposed on Japan by the United States.
Article 9 of Japan’s constitution states:
“Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes. (2) To accomplish the aim of
Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, Racial Genetics Is Trump’s Defining Worldview (Full Stop!)
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Hey, the clip was “erroneously” posted at Donald Trump’s Truth Social website, right? You know, the one I mean, the 62-second video clip (to the tune of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”)
Talk World Radio: War on Iran and What to Do About It
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Tomgram: Alfred W. McCoy, How the Past Whispers to the Present in Iran
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Honestly, I can barely believe that I’m living through it again. After all, I began TomDispatch in the wake — a distinctly appropriate word — of an American president (George W. Bush) ordering the invasion of Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks and, remind me, how did that turn out? Now, here I am, 24 years later, with an American president — and the
Tomgram: Juan Cole, Trump and the Return of the White Man’s Burden
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Once again, the “President of Peace” Donald Trump who, while running for office in 2016,
The Bases Basis for the Iran War
According to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio the U.S. attacked Iran because Israel was going to attack Iran, likely producing Iranian attacks on U.S. bases. This comment suggested that Israel began a U.S. war, but also that U.S. bases began the war. Neither thing is as unusual as perhaps imagined.
The United States has loaded up with bases the area that Iran has the ability to hit with missiles. Not only does the presence of a U.S. base tend to make wars more likely, but the U.S. claim that
Tomgram: Mattea Kramer, Breaking Bread in Authoritarian America
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Donald Trump’s urges couldn’t be stranger, more destructive, or more violent. The most recent example has, of course, been his decision to attack Iran, where, on the very first day of his attack (and Israel’s),
Talk World Radio: Karen Malpede on Radical Lives and Bright Deaths
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Chuck Schumer: Man of Peace
By David Swanson, Progressive Hub, March 9, 2026
For many years, Senator Charles Schumer demanded tougher and tougher sanctions on the people of Iran, as he shamelessly documents on his own website. He insisted on a Cuba-like blockade, punishing and deterring any company or nation from providing life-support to Iran. He predicted, ludicrously but proudly, that such punishing sanctions might lead to an overthrow of the Iranian government.
Like all Congressional supporters and opponents of the Obama-era