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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
Congressional passage of Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” provides the latest evidence that human greed, despite its primitive nature, remains alive and well.
Perhaps most noticeably, the legislation provides for over $3 trillion in tax cuts that disproportionately help the wealthy and their corporations. This largesse is facilitated by slashing over $1.4 trillion in healthcare and food assistance for low-income
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Hey, if you want a curse word — or do I mean a curse acronym? — DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) should work perfectly for you in the second era of DT (and no, I don’t mean DDT!). Honestly, could we live in a stranger world? I have my doubts.
Just consider this, for instance: In April, as the Washington Post
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While Donald Trump and crew have been altering so much and changing our world in so many ways — if you doubt that, wave a Mexican flag and say goodbye to democracy — there’s one place where they
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By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, June 28, 2025
Remarks at demonstration near Ramstein Air Base in Germany, June 28, 2025.
Where I live in the United States, if you watch a sports game on television, the announcers will sometimes thank the U.S. military for watching from 175 countries. But few people watching will stop and ask themselves what in the name of the holy dollar is one military doing in 175 countries. Almost all countries that have militaries have them in 1 country.
In fact the U.S.
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Hey, give Donald Trump and crew credit when it comes to climate change. You know, the phenomenon that the president once called a “Chinese hoax.” Only recently, in fact, his administration
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, June 26, 2025
I grew up in a town in the United States that was built from nothing in the 1960s around an artificial lake with — in the lake — a fountain modeled on the fountain in Geneva. Yesterday I saw the fountain in Geneva for the first time, and felt at home.
I also feel at home with neutrality.
I think another
On Speaking Truth to Empire on KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno, Dan Yaseen interviews Cindy Sheehan, author, blogger, radio talk show host and one of America’s leading antiwar and anti-Empire activists. They discuss Trump and Netanyahu’s war on Iran and Trump’s war against immigrants at home.
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In some ways, at my age, I simply can’t imagine (or perhaps I mean believe) the world that we now inhabit. Or rather I can’t believe that, once upon a time, as a kid, I could leave my house to go meet my best friend and we could essentially disappear. My parents would have no idea where we were and no way of finding us. Of course, back then, in the 1950s, a million years