On Speaking Truth to Empire on KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno, Dan Yaseen interviews Bruce Gagnon, who serves as Secretary/Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. He has been working on space issues for the past 30 years and helped create the Global Network in 1992. For 15 years, 1983 thru 1998, he coordinated the Florida Coalition for Peace & Justice. He was trained as an
How to Avoid Reporting That a University Is Lying About Police Violence
I’m old enough to remember a video of a New York Times reporter who let slip that she’d been instructed never to say the president of the United States had lied, even if he (George W. Bush) was just blatantly lying. Not that she objected to the policy. It made perfect sense to her. Now I can’t find that video because the internet is so weighted down with accounts of Trump and Biden lying.
But I was quite pleasantly surprised when the only local daily here in Charlottesville, the
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Anger and the MAGA Movement
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When some government program fails utterly, you’d think top officials would consider transferring at least part of the taxpayer funds they’re spending on it to programs that might actually do some good. When it comes to the U.S. military, however, as TomDispatch regular Andrea Mazzarino makes all too clear today, no such luck. And really, it just couldn’t be stranger.
At
NATO Spreads Nuclear Weapons, Energy, and Risk
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, May 15, 2024
Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty declares that NATO members will assist another member if attacked by “taking action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force.” But the UN Charter does not say anywhere that warmaking is authorized for whoever jumps in on the appropriate side.
The North Atlantic Treaty’s authors may have been aware that they were on dubious legal ground because they went on twice to claim otherwise, first
Tomgram: William Hartung, Democracy Versus Autocracy on America’s Campuses
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I was by nature the mildest and least courageous of young men. And yet, in April 1968, I well remember standing with two friends on the Boston Common, amid a large demonstration of young people, and turning in my draft card to protest America’s brutal
Tomgram: Jane Braxton Little, Reporting from a Burned-Out Main Street
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Today, TomDispatch regular Jane Braxton Little writes about the “news deserts” spreading across rural parts of America. These are often the same regions hit hard by the unparalleled fires, floods, and fierce storms that are increasingly part of a world
Tomgram: Norman Solomon, When Students Are a Shock to the System
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Once upon a time, in another era, maybe even another universe, the head of a university refused to call on the police, the National Guard, or even federal troops in the face of student and other protests. Instead, he opened the doors of his school to the demonstrators.
I’m thinking of Kingman Brewster, who was the president of Yale University on May 1, 1970, as
Talk World Radio: Richard Eskow on the Big Lie Smearing Campus Protesters
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Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, America’s Existential Trials
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Despite the lack of televised coverage of Donald Trump in court, the trial of the century — or do I mean of the month, week, day, minute, or second? — has caught our attention. And yes, a crucial witness is indeed likely
Does Every Person in Israel Deserve to Die?
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, May 6, 2024
I fervently hope, dear reader, that you do not agree that every person in Israel deserves to die. But I know some of you do, and I hope to suggest a better way of looking at it. I know that you’re even more unlikely to agree with me that nobody ever anywhere “deserves to die.” But the closer you can get to agreeing with that, the better!
Have you heard people calling the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel a “success,” despite the perfectly predictable