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Until last Sunday, the 2024 election wasn’t just a campaign between a distinctly old man making uncalled-for mistakes and his opponent. It was between two distinctly old men, both making uncalled-for errors, and of the two, the one making the most disastrous errors
Speaking Truth to Empire on KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno, Dan Yaseen interviews Cindy Sheehan, author, blogger, radio talk show host and one of America’s leading antiwar and anti-Empire activists. They discuss Biden’s meltdown at presidential debate, political violence and the assassination attempt on Trump.
Her website is: https://cindysheehan.substack.com
Over the past decade and more, nuclear war has grown increasingly likely. Most nuclear arms control and disarmament agreements of the past have been discarded by the nuclear powers or will expire soon. Moreover, there are no nuclear arms control negotiations underway. Instead, all nine nuclear
By StoptheWarCoalition, July 19, 2024
NATO’s 75th anniversary summit was dominated by calls to ramp up military spending and escalate military backing for Ukraine. Earlier this week Stop the War and CND hosted key activists and experts to explain how this Washington war summit can only heighten tensions from Eastern
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The Decline and Fall of Presidential America Are We Now Living in a Defeat Culture? ByIt’s not a happenstance or some sad mistake that, barring a surprise, Americans will go to the polls in November to vote for one of two distinctly ancient men, now 77 and 81, both of whom have clearly exhibited
By David Swanson, July 16, 2024
Remarks on Stop the War Coalition webinar July 16, 2024
After someone shot Donald Trump, Joe Biden said, indignantly, “we resolve our differences at the ballot,” which is classic propaganda, taking something obviously true (namely: it’s evil to shoot people) and using it to make seem true something obviously false (namely: you can use a ballot in a U.S. election to choose policies you support and have them enacted). When Trump and Biden debated, they debated
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From Gaza to the West Bank to the Israeli-Lebanese borderlands, it’s been a genuine nightmare. The devastation in Gaza remains surreal and almost impossible to take in. Housing, hospitals,
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For obvious reasons, the devastation of Gaza has gotten so much of the attention recently, but life, post-October 7th, has also been a nightmare on the West Bank. Among other things, the grotesquely right-wing Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has, as the Associated Press reported recently,
By Robert Scheer, Scheer Intelligence, July 12, 2024
The 75th anniversary celebrating the creation of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, creates an opportunity for those in the war machine to double down their commitment to war and for peace advocates to amplify their calls for non-violence. David Swanson, co-founder and executive director of World