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Is Donald Trump a strong leader? By what measure can his second term so far be deemed a success? Then there is the issue of America First. Trump hasn’t stopped foreign wars; he actually continues to fund them. And what about the Epstein files? Where is the transparency?
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On Speaking Truth to Empire on KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno, Dan Yaseen interviews Alice Slater, she is on the boards of World BEYOND War and the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. As a member of the Lawyers Alliance for Nuclear Arms Control, she travelled to Russia and China on numerous delegations engaged in ending the arms race and banning the bomb. The topics of discussion include, how the ongoing war in Ukraine and US/Israeli
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Being in Donald Trump’s America — and yes, in these years, it’s all too often seemed to be his — has, in its own strange way, been a distinctly religious experience. Or so it’s seemed anyway. If you believed in him, whatever he did or planned to do, he still had your trust and vote in 2024, and whatever he now does, he can still do no wrong, not truly. If,
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No kid is under a desk anymore — and isn’t that strange when you think about it? After all, when I “ducked and covered” like
At a time when international cooperation provides the key to preventing a variety of global calamities―including nuclear war, climate catastrophe, and massive starvation―it’s tragic that major nations, ruled by nationalist, rightwing parties, are on a collision course with the organizations that represent the international community.
Chief among these international organizations is the United Nations, with a Charter that bans
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Sometimes it seems as though nothing ever really ends in this world of ours. As I read Rebecca Gordon’s latest grim piece for TomDispatch on the return of torture in the age of Trump, the all-American prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the one that, in the years of the Global War on Terror, held so many tortured prisoners offshore of American justice, popped back into
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Hey, you remember that guy, right? You know, the candidate who, in his third campaign for president in 2024 insisted that he was the one who would remove this country’s “warmongers and America-last globalists” and that returning him to the White House would “turn the page forever on those foolish, stupid days of never-ending war. They never ended.”
Yes, indeed, America’s
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These days, don’t you sometimes feel like you’re no longer in the world you always knew, but in a science-fiction version of it? Once upon a time, it was hard even to imagine the president of the United States employing military troops on our soil, despite the wishes of state officials. Yes, 60 years ago, President Lyndon Johnson did indeed