I’ve previously reviewed a number of pro-war books including Christopher Coker’s Why War, Margaret MacMillan’s War: How Conflict Shaped Us, Ian Morris’s War: What Is It Good For?, and Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Accessory
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, The Last Prisoners?
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In September 2007, Karen Greenberg ominously titled her third report for TomDispatch “Guantanamo Forever.” Give her credit. So many years ago, she grasped all too clearly the nightmarish nature of that bastion of injustice. Sixteen years and three presidencies later,
Monroe Doctrine Propaganda — And Remedy (A New Film)
Here’s a new response to a 1930s propaganda movie about the glories of the Monroe Doctrine.
Tomgram: William Hartung, The Future of Techno-War
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Uh… gulp… you thought it was bad when that experienced pilot ejected from one of the Air Force’s hottest “new” planes, the F-35 combat fighter, near — no, not China or somewhere in the Middle East — but Charleston, South Carolina. The plane then flew on its own for another 60 miles before crashing into an empty field. And that was without an enemy in sight.
Perhaps
Talk World Radio: Why Is the Peace Movement in Italy So Strong?
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#NoWar2023 Debate: Is War in Ukraine Justified?
By World BEYOND War, October 2, 2023
First published by Pressenza.
In this 1.5 hour friendly debate, moderated by Marcy Winograd (coordinator of CODEPINK Congress and co-chair of the Peace in Ukraine Coalition), we hear 3 perspectives debated: 1) Russia had no choice but to invade Ukraine, argued by former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, 2) Ukraine had no
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Whose Planet Are We On?
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The Slow-Motion Equivalent of a Nuclear War?
A “New Cold War” on an Ever-Hotter Planet
Tell me, what planet are we actually on? All these decades later, are we really involved in a “second” or “new” Cold War? It’s certainly true that, as late as the 1980s, the superpowers (or so they then liked to think of themselves), the United States and the Soviet Union,
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Nuclear Deterrence, Really?
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Here’s something strange about our all-too-nuclearized planet: in my youth during the 1950s and early 1960s, the possibility of an obliterating nuclear war played a significant role in our everyday nightmares. We schoolkids then regularly engaged in “
There Are Easier Ways to Talk About War and Peace
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, September 27, 2023
Remarks in Charlottesville, Va — Video here.
War and peace could be a very simple issue. We make it very complicated. People say and do things that I simultaneously want to cheer for and condemn.
This week Senator Rand Paul said he wants to stop supporting Ukraine in order to support the United States. The phrase “support Ukraine” is shorthand for fueling a war that is destroying Ukraine, damaging the world, and threatening nuclear apocalypse.
Time for a Ceasefire in Ukraine?
A public discussion featuring Medea Benjamin, Helena Cobban, Ray McGovern, and David Swanson.