War Is A Crime

This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.

Hey, here’s the good news! Last week, despite a looming congressional budget shutdown, Senate and House leaders actually agreed on the outline of a budget deal that would keep the money flowing. Above read more

This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.

Here’s one obvious point that isn’t made often enough: American taxpayers are now spending close to a trillion dollars a year on what’s still called “national security,” but should really be called “national insecurity.” Think about it for a moment. read more

By David Swanson, January 14, 2024

What are we to say about a U.S. culture in which people can openly admire Germany for backing yet another genocide, and condemn warning of World War III as reckless endangerment?

Germany has formally endorsed Israel’s defense of its genocide in Gaza, while Namibia has publicly denounced Germany’s longstanding policy of committing or supporting genocides, including the one everyone is supposed to know about in Europe and the one nobody is supposed to know about read more

This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.

At some level, it wasn’t very complicated for me. Simply put, I was horrified by the Hamas assault on Israel: the slaughter of kids attending a music festival, the killing of old folks and children in kibbutzes, and the kidnapping of about 240 people (again including the elderly and children). That was in no uncertain terms a first-class horror.

But when, only a couple of read more

The section on Gaza begins about 20 minutes in.

Today’s Guests Are:
-Rev. Vickie Johnson
-Dr. Shanina Knighton, R.N.
-David Swanson
-Rev. Dr. Todd Yeary, Esq.
-Dwight McKee
-Atty. CK Hoffler

This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.

How strange to be living through it a second time, however different the form.

I’m thinking, of course, about a devastating set of totally unexpected attacks on one’s homeland. On September 11, 2001, it was the World Trade Center in downtown New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., with read more

AUDIO:

Talk World Radio is recorded on Zoom.

Here is this week’s video and all the videos on Youtube.

This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.

Think of Donald Trump as, in his own fashion, a creature of climate change. After all, in 2015, he descended that escalator into the election race denouncing immigrants read more

AUDIO:

Talk World Radio is recorded on Zoom.

Here is this week’s video and all the videos on Youtube.