- There are over 80 million men, women, and children in Iran. Bombing them would be mass-murder.
- If the U.S. government and its allies bomb Libya and Iran when their
Emerging from a world of suffering with hope
Despite what we see in our daily newsfeeds, life on Earth is actually improving.
On a global level, we see significant drops in child mortality and increases in life expectancy. According to the World Health Organization, more than one billion people have gained access to safer drinking water since 1990.
We also see amazing innovations in the production of food and significant drops in the number of undernourished people in the world.
Beyond the world of health, we see drops in extreme poverty and
Mumia Seeks to Show Top State Judge Doubled as Prosecutor and Jurist Reviewing his Appeals
By Dave Lindorff
Following a brief hearing in Philadelphia yesterday, Court of Common Pleas Judge Leon Tucker, learning that the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office had thus far failed find and turn over, in response to his earlier order, any documents showing a role by former District Attorney Ron Castille regarding the department’s handling of an appeal by then death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal, adjourned the hearing until Aug. 30. The judge acted to give Abu-Jamal’s attorneys time to
Talk Nation Radio: Rania Khalek: U.S. Military’s Loss in Syria a Failed Attempt to Destabilize
Rania Khalek is an independent Middle-East-based journalist.
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Tomgram: Arnold Isaacs, In Present American Wars, Repeating Past Mistakes
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Almost 17 years after Washington’s war on terror was launched, déjà vu all over again hardly sums up the situation. Still, it’s a place to start. Take a headline from nearly a decade ago — July 2009, to be exact. By then, the American war in Afghanistan (the
Discussion of Curing Exceptionalism
I discussed Curing Exceptionalism with Rob Kall:
Peace Comes to Korea: Let’s Understand Why
When peace shows its face, and weapons companies’ stocks plummet, we have to do more than just cheer. We have to avoid misunderstanding where peace comes from. We have to recognize the forces that want to destroy it. We have to work to make it last and expand.
There’s something very twisted about the belief that the primary cause of tension between the United States and North Korea is what has reduced tension there. On a personal scale I think we could grasp this. If you yell insults and threats
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Can Bean Counters Save the World from Trump?
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Recently, I visited New York’s Guggenheim Museum for a show of conceptual art by Danh Vo, whose family fled Vietnam as the American war there ended in 1975. He was four years old when he became a refugee and, through a series of flukes, found himself in Denmark, which has been his home ever since. Much of his
Ending US occupation of South Korea: What Does ‘Denuclearization’ Mean in the Negotiations for an End to the Korean War?
By Dave Lindorff
Media news reports and commentary as well as political statements coming out of Washington on the surprising blossoming of peace talks between North and South Korea tend to focus on the question of whether North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is really “serious” about eliminating his recently developed nuclear weapons arsenal, or whether he will just try to keep what he has while decrying US military threats to his regime.
How Suzy Hansen Lost Her U.S. Exceptionalism
Suzy Hansen’s book Notes on a Foreign Country is the diary of someone going through the process of gaining the world by losing their religion, the religion of U.S. Exceptionalism. She begins as an ordinary U.S. resident, not believing anything that you would find unusual, but assuming all the certifiably insane things you assume are not even questionable:
- The United States is the best place to live.
- Its government generally means well.
- It seeks to help the rest of the world whose problems it has had little to do with creating.
- History doesn’t matter much.
- The other 96% are all a bit backward.
Hansen’s book, focused on her experience living in Istanbul, is a powerful case for living abroad and for reshaping U.S. education and culture