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Speaking Truth to Empire
“Speaking Truth to Empire” on KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated in Fresno since 1975, Dan Yaseen interviews Jodie Evans, she has been a peace, environmental, women’s rights and social justice activist for over forty-five years. She is the co-founder of CODEPINK. She has traveled extensively to war zones promoting and learning about peaceful resolutions to conflicts. Jodie has produced several acclaimed documentary films. They discuss, Israeli perpetrated
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, A “Dictatorship” on Day One?
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Let’s start with the obvious. Yes, in the MAGA world of Donald Trump’s Republican Party, white supremacism and
The Pro-Peace Case to Stop Changing Our Clocks
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, March 20, 2024
The first reason I’d like the United States to drop the whole ordeal of changing clocks twice a year is that it causes endless confusion and missed meetings for groups, organizations, and events that are not contained within the little 4% of humanity that lives in the United States. To make cross-border zoom meetings work, you have to either get people in the United States to learn what Coordinated Universal Time is, or make 96% of the world
Talk World Radio: Stavroula Pabst on Investors in Death
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The Ugly Origins of Trump’s “America First” Policy
People’s choice of words can be revealing. That’s certainly the case with respect to one of Donald Trump’s favorite slogans, “America First.”
In April 2016, Trump initially used the term in a campaign speech, proclaiming that “America First” would be “the major and overriding theme of my administration.” The following year, in his inaugural
Tomgram: Stan and Priti Gulati Cox, Blocking the Aid Trucks, Letting the Tanks Roll
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As I write this, more than 31,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza and, as Aya Batrawy
Charlottesville City Council Refuses to Oppose Genocide for Disturbing Reasons
Monday night (video here), three of five City Council Members in Charlottesville, Virginia, voted No on a resolution (in agenda packet here) in support of a ceasefire in Gaza.
Council Members Michael Payne and Natalie Oschrin put the resolution on the agenda and spoke well in support of it.
But Council Members Lloyd Snook, Brian Pinkston, and Juandiego Wade voted No.
Snook claimed to have no competence in foreign policy, spreading what is a pernicious idea in a supposedly self-governing land, namely
Tomgram: William Astore, Cutting the Pentagon Down to Size
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It’s one of the stranger phenomena on this planet. By 2023, the U.S. was estimated to spend more money on its “defense budget” than the next 10 countries combined.
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, My “Children” Say They Won’t Vote for Biden
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Let me start with my own news. At almost 80, I’ve decided not to run for president. I know it’s a shock and, if the presidency were largely a morning or even an afternoon job, I might actually consider it. But 24 hours a day, with crises endlessly multiplying in a world truly on edge (and seemingly