Ed Kinane is based in Syracuse, New York, and has been a big part of efforts to oppose drone piloting at Hancock Air Base for the past 10 years. His amazing array of work over the past decades has included teaching math and biology in a one-room Quaker school in rural Kenya, hitchiking Africa and North America, providing protective accompaniment to targeted activists in Guatemala, El Salvador, Haiti, and Sri Lanka, serving as chair of Peace Brigades International’s Sri Lanka
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Welcome to the Post-American World
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Pardon Me!
High Crimes and Demeanors in the Age of Trump
By Tom Engelhardt
Let me try to get this straight: from the moment the Soviet Union imploded in 1991 until recently just about every politician and mainstream pundit in America assured us that we were the planet’s indispensable nation, the only truly exceptional one on this small orb of ours.
We were the sole superpower,
Creative Anti-Nazism
The people of Durham , N.C., have the right idea. Not only have they taken down a Confederate war statue themselves, but they’ve lined up en masse to turn themselves in for that crime, overwhelming the so-called justice system.
The people of Wunsiedel, German, have the right idea. They’ve responded to Nazi marches by funding anti-Nazi groups for every Nazi marcher, and cheering on and thanking the marchers.
The people of Richardson, Texas, have the right idea. Members of a mosque intervened
Focus: North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) – Aug 16, 2017
U.S. takes tough lines as NAFTA negotiations begin: ‘We feel that NAFTA has fundamentally failed many, many Americans and needs major improvement’ – Yahoo News
VIDEO: NAFTA 2.0 press conference with US, Canada and Mexico representatives – United States Trade Representative
TRANSCRIPT: Opening statement of USTR Robert Lighthizer at the first round of NAFTA renegotiations – United States Trade Representative
Full text of the Trump administration’s Summary of Objectives for NAFTA Renegotiation – ustr.gov
Canada and Mexico rebuke Trump at tense start of NAFTA talks – FT.com
What the U.S., Canada and Mexico want from a new NAFTA – US News
Address by Canada Foreign Affairs Minister Freeland on the modernization of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) – Canada.ca
U.S. trade vets say Canada’s NAFTA demands a ‘long shot’ – torontosun.com
The A team across the table: The top US, Canada and Mexico negotiators – Bloomberg
Will Koreans Count This Time?
William S. Geimer
Author: Canada: The Case for Staying Out of Other People’s Wars
Blog: DearVirtualEditor.com
A number of important matters are being ignored in the latest furor of North Korea. One is the fact that the U.S. created North Korea and South Korea, and then rejected the only democratic option for unification. The U.S. made these moves with little or no regard for the wishes of the Korean people, and at the cost of millions of their lives. To date, it has been clear that Korea is no
Address on Nuclear War to Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action
How War Pollutes the Potomac River
By David Swanson and Pat Elder, World Beyond War
The Pentagon’s impact on the river on whose bank it sits is not simply the diffuse impact of global warming and rising oceans contributed to by the U.S. military’s massive oil consumption. The U.S. military also directly poisons the Potomac River in more ways than almost anyone would imagine.
Let’s take a cruise down the Potomac from its source in the mountains of West Virginia to its mouth at the Chesapeake Bay. The journey down this mighty
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Is Anything the Moral Equivalent of War?
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Ever since 2001, when President George W. Bush launched an endless “global war” not on al-Qaeda but on a phenomenon, or perhaps simply a feeling (“terror”) and those who could potentially induce it, America’s all-too-real conflicts have become, as TomDispatch regular Rebecca Gordon writes today, ever more
Talk Nation Radio: James Loewen on the Lies That Confederate Statues Tell
James Loewen’s books include Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong, Lies My Teacher Told Me and Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism. Earlier this year, he spoke at a symposium in Richmond on Confederate monuments and memorials, available on C-SPAN. And a couple of years ago he wrote an article in the Washington Post called “Why do people believe myths about the Confederacy? Because our textbooks
Focus: China and North Korea – Aug 14, 2017
In joint WSJ editorial Mattis, Tillerson say ‘U.S. has no interest in regime change or accelerated reunification of Korea’, pressure China to step up and deal with North Korea – washingtonexaminer.com
Jim Mattis, Rex Tillerson editorial: We’re holding Pyongyang to account – WSJ
General Dunford: ‘It would be a horrible thing were a war to be conducted here on the (Korea) peninsula, and that’s why we’re so focused on coming up with a peaceful way ahead’ – Stripes
Resolve N. Korea nuclear issue peacefully: President Moon – The Straits Times
Trump signs trade actions against China as North Korea crisis looms over move – Washington Times
Trump’s trade war with China is war on North Korea by other means – IBD
US-North Korea standoff could spark economic war with China – CNBC
Chinese state newspaper says Trump trade probe will ‘poison’ relations, it is unfair for Trump to put the burden on China for dissuading Pyongyang from its actions – Reuters
China implements UN sanctions against North Korea, as Trump trade probe looms – Fox News