Speaking Truth to Empire on KFCF 88.1 independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno,. Dan Yaseen interviews Ann Garrison. Ann is an independent journalist and a columnist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her articles appear in Counterpunch, San Francisco Bay View, Global Research, the Black Agenda Report and the Black Star News. She produces radio for KPFA-Berkeley and WBAI-New York City. In 2014, the Womens International Network for Democracy
Speaking Truth to Empire
Speaking Truth to Empire on KFCF 88.1 independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno, Dan Yaseen interviews David Swanson, an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is the director of WorldBeyondWar.org. Swanson’s books include War Is A Lie. He blogs at DavidSwanson.org and WarIsACrime.org. He hosts Talk Nation Radio.
Tomgram: John Feffer, Springtime for Despots
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Fifteen years ago last week, the U.S. invasion of Iraq began. It was to be beyond glorious. It was to signal the start of an unprecedented new era in which a single imperial superpower, left alone on the planet, would organize more or less everything
Trump’s truly awful pick for national security advisor: War Monger and War Criminal John Bolton to Head Trump’s National Security Council
By Dave Lindorff
John Bolton, the man named this past week by President Trump to be his new national security advisor, is like that rotting corpse of the torturing rapist local yokel that erupts from the water at the very end of the movie “Deliverance,” returning to remind its former victims of the horrors they had endured earlier and thought they’d finally rid themselves of.
One of the most bloodthirsty members of a gang of war-mongering
Trumparade of 2018 Stupidest Idea Since Philadelphia Liberty Loan Parade of 1918
It’s hard not to focus on the fact that Trump has picked the 100th anniversary of the first Armistice Day celebration for his weaponry parade (more on that below). But there was another parade a month and a half before the armistice that cries out for comparison because of its remarkable stupidity. I’m thinking of the Liberty Loan Parade in Philadelphia:
This was a parade to squeeze more money out of people to pay for war, to celebrate patrioti-nationali-militarism, and to reject fake news.
Tomgram: Nate Terani, Being Demonized in Your Own Country
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Who could possibly keep up with the discordant version of musical chairs now being played out in Washington? When it comes to Donald Trump’s White House, the old sports phrase about needing a scorecard to keep track of the players pops to mind (though you would need a new one every day or maybe every few hours). The turnover rate of top White House staffers was already at
Focus: Update on The Poisoning of the Ex-Russian Spy
Theresa May to warn a summit of European leaders in Brussels that Russia poses a threat to all EU member states – FT.com
UK to ask EU leaders to expel Russian spies from own countries – The Guardian
Boris Johnson compares Russia’s World Cup to Hitler’s Olympics – POLITICO
EU fails to back UK line on Kremlin culpability for Salisbury attack – POLITICO
Statement by the EU Foreign Affairs Council on the Salisbury attack – Consilium
Germany, France reject UK-proposed Russia sanctions over Skripal case: Source – Sputnik International
Why 55 U.S. Senators Voted for Genocide in Yemen
Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, A Memo to the Publisher of the New York Times
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When Russia moved into the Ukraine and seized Crimea in 2014, it got more than its share of (bad) media coverage in the United States, as it did when it intervened in Syria the next year. So just imagine what kind of coverage Vladimir Putin’s favorite nation would be getting if, almost 17 years after it had launched a “Global War on Terrorism,” Russian troops, special
Tomgram: Nomi Prins, Jared Kushner, You’re Fired!
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What does it mean to send two family businesses into the White House? I’m referring to the Trump Organization and the family real estate firm of Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law. And that’s not even to mention Ivanka Trump’s ongoing