War Is A Crime

Ralph welcomes journalist Chris Hedges to talk about his new book “A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine.” Then, Ralph speaks to David Swanson of World BEYOND War about what his organization is doing to resist this country’s casual acceptance of being constantly at war. Finally, Ralph checks in with our resident constitutional scholar Bruce Fein.

According to pretty much every media outlet and peace group, and the United Nations, and Wikipedia, the war on Yemen just turned 10. Happy Birthday!

Not so fast! Ten years ago was 2015. It was in 2009 that the U.S. military began regularly sending missiles into human beings in Yemen, with the peak in that practice coming in 2012. We learned about this from people in Yemen, not from our “representative” and “democratic” government in the United States. But that doesn’t make it less real.

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If it wasn’t so grim, it would almost be funny. Okay, the decision to remove the Black Vietnam-War-era Medal of Honor recipient, Major General Charles Calvin Rogers, from a Defense read more

On Tuesday the director of U.S. so-called “national intelligence” Tulsi Gabbard listed the dangers threatening us. No climate collapse. No ecosystem destruction. No nuclear war. No disease pandemics. No poverty. No fascistic tendencies. No AI, even though the billionaire in chief says there’s a 20% chance robots will kill us all within 10 years. No gun industry. No kakistocracy. read more

I want to recommend three new books about abolishing police and prisons. And I want to recommend multi-issue abolitionism beyond those two institutions.

What else would I abolish? Well, a list might start with war, fossil fuels, militaries, prisons, nuclear energy, police, nuclear weaponry, campaign bribery, health insurance companies, the death penalty, the livestock industry, Wall Street, borders, poverty, the NSA, the CIA, the United States Senate, Fox News, MSNBC, the Star Spangled Banner, read more

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It’s strange to think that it was almost a quarter of a century ago when Osama bin Laden and crew launched those attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Looking back, horrific as they were (almost 3,000 people died), read more

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“This is blatantly illegal and dangerous beyond belief. Our national security is in the hands of complete amateurs. What other highly sensitive national security conversations are happening over group chat? Any other random people accidentally added to those, too?” — Senator Elizabeth Warren

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I want to say: When it comes to the Trump administration, it never ends, does it? But of course, it does end. In fact, these days, Trump and crew seem to have a knack for endings. You could even say that, in the age of You Know Who, death is preparing to become this country’s middle name. After all, we now know that the one government agency that actually provided read more