Speaking Truth to Empire on KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno, Dan Yaseen interviews Ajamu Baraka; Ajamu is the national organizer of the Black Alliance for Peace and was the 2016 candidate for vice president on the Green Party ticket. Baraka serves on the Executive Committee of the U.S. Peace Council and leadership body of the United National Anti-War Coalition (UNAC). He is an editor and contributing columnist
Tomgram: Cassandra Stimpson and Holly Zhang, A World Being Made for War
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Yes, tensions are still rising between the world’s greatest emitter of greenhouse gases, historically speaking, and the country emitting the most
Guide to Why You Should Not Sell Weapons to UAE for Dummies
Pictured: Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces (MbZ) and some guy.
The New York Times seems to publish a book-length love letter to MbZ about every six
Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, Grappling With a Divided Nation
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Yes, he golfed numerous times, gave a double thumbs-up through his car window, and tweeted
Talk Nation Radio: Stephen Wertheim on the Decision to Rule the World
This week on Talk Nation Radio: the decision to rule the world. Stephen Wertheim is a historian of U.S. foreign policy. He is Deputy Director of Research and Policy at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He is also a research scholar at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. His terrific new book is called Tomorrow the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy.
Total run time: 29:00
Host: David Swanson.
Producer: David Swanson.
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Armistice Day Video
Tomgram: John Feffer, There’s No Returning to Normal After Trump
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Let me admit, as a start, that I’m a fan of New Yorker satirist Andy Borowitz. Sadly, our world — and Donald Trump in particular — was made for him. A typical recent Borowitzian
The New U.S. War on Western Sahara
I’m not misusing the word “war” to mean something like the war on Christmas or drugs or some TV pundit whom somebody else insulted. I mean war. There is a new U.S. war in Western Sahara, being waged by Morocco with the support of the U.S. military. The U.S. military, unbeknownst to most people in the United States — it’s perfectly knowable but few give a damn — arms and trains and funds the militaries of the world, inlcuding almost
Tomgram: Nick Turse, You Can’t Go Home Again
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Let’s face it, Election 2020, that wild ride to hell and back, took up every inch of space on the media landscape, vote by vote, one outrageous moment after the next, one edge-of-the-seat state count after another. In these last weeks, if you happened to be anywhere in the United States, it wouldn’t have been hard to believe that there was no world out there, nothing but
Re-Learning to Reject War
Chris Lombardi’s fantastic new book is called I Ain’t Marching Anymore: Dissenters, Deserters, and Objectors to America’s Wars. It’s a wonderful history of U.S. wars, and both support for and opposition to them, with a major focus on troops and veterans, from 1754 to the present.
The greatest strength of the book is its depth of detail, the rarely heard individual accounts of war supporters, resisters, whistleblowers, protesters, and all of the complexities that catch so many people in