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.
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, The United Surveillance States of America
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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
Tomgram: Engelhardt, King Trump
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This Is What Democracy Looks Like! No Kings Day, An Event to Remember ByHow strange. I’ve been going to demonstrations for a long, long while now. I began once upon a distant time in opposition to the nightmarish all-American war in Vietnam. And almost 60 years later, that war, in some sense, has come home. Hence, the other day, I found myself at the “No Kings” demonstration in New York City, one of
Scuttling International Humanitarian Assistance
Since the return of Donald Trump to the White House, he and his Republican allies have worked to destroy the U.S. government’s overseas humanitarian aid programs.
This action flies in the face of the U.S. government’s lengthy record of humanitarian assistance to people of other nations whose lives had been blighted by war, poverty, and illness. From the Marshall Plan to rebuild war-devastated Europe, to Senator George McGovern’s
Talk World Radio: What Happened on the March to Gaza
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Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Is Donald Trump America’s King Canute?
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Yes, even during his election campaign in 2020, Donald Trump was already muttering about how windmills “kill all the birds.” (“You want to see a bird graveyard? Go under a windmill someday. You’ll
BREAKING: WAR ON IRAN IS THE DUMBEST & DEADLIEST IDEA!
By Legitimate Targets @LegitTargets, June 18, 2025
Today on Legitimate Targets, Jackson Hinkle speaks with World BEYOND War’s David Swanson (@davidcnswanson) about the prospects of a US WAR ON IRAN, UKRAINIAN TERRORISM & Trump’s FAILURE to “END THE WARS.”
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 BREAKING: WAR ON IRAN IS THE DUMBEST & DEADLIEST IDEA!
Today on Legitimate Targets, Jackson Hinkle speaks with World Beyond War’s David Swanson (@davidcnswanson)
Everything You Think About WWII Is a Lie
And it’s doing tremendous damage.
Helsinki, 50 Years Later
The Helsinki Accords of 1975 look from the perspective of 50 years later like part of a trend away from the insanity of mass-murder and nuclear belligerence, in contrast to an opposing trend today. The war on Vietnam had given massive sadistic destruction a bad name, so bad that war promoters diagnosed society with a disease called the Vietnam Syndrome, whose only symptom was aversion to more wars — so bad that World War II became a wonderful event and the top subject of Hollywood. Opposition
Tomgram: David Vine, Some Good News! (Mostly.)
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Let me do something I almost never do and use a modified, updated version of an old introduction (from 2021) for TomDispatch regular David Vine’s new piece. The reason: his focus today, which (sadly) couldn’t be more up to date, is on one of the estimated