By Santita Jackson Show, September 5, 2024
David Swanson, Ariel Gold, and other guests discuss gun violence and militarism following yet another mass shooting in the United States.
Video: Santita Jackson Show on Gun Violence
Tomgram: William Astore, Making America Sane Again
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I’ve recently begun reading Caroline Alexander’s new book,
Talk World Radio: The Even Worse War You Haven’t Heard About
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NATO: Not A Tenable Option
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, August 29, 2024
Remarks on Canada-Wide Peace & Justice Network webinar on August 28, 2024
When NATO gathered in Washington D.C. several weeks ago, we held a counter-summit and a rally, did a bunch of interviews, wrote a bunch of articles, etc. All the videos and reports are at nonatoyespeace.org to watch and read at your convenience. I won’t try to read them to you. We had a minimal impact on U.S. and global communications about the NATO summit. We promoted
Project 2025 Provides a GOP Blueprint for Destroying America’s Labor Unions
The approach of Labor Day provides an appropriate time to reflect upon how Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans, if restored to power, will deal with the American labor movement.
Much of the evidence on this score is available in Project 2025, a 922-page public policy agenda, produced by the Heritage Foundation, for the first 180 days of a new Republican administration. Ever
Talk World Radio: Kathy Kelly on the State of the Peace Movement
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Speaking Truth to Empire
On Speaking Truth to Empire on KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno, Dan Yaseen interviews Lisa Savage, an antiwar activist, a retired school teacher and union negotiator who supports Medicare for All, the Green New Deal and believes public higher education should be tuition free. You can read her blogs at: https://went2thebridge.org/.
They discuss Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS); Gaza genocide, the role of NGOs in American Empire’s regime change
Tomgram: Clarence Lusane, Facing a Smart, Confident Younger Black Woman Trump Is Running Scared
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I’m sure you won’t be surprised to learn that Donald Trump has said many remarkable (or rather remarkably off-the-wall) things. Still, the question “Is she Indian or is she Black?” and the idea that the presidential candidate who attended a historically Black college and joined a
The Party Platform Racket
While party platforms are usually full of insincere popular promises, this year’s from the Democrats spits in the face of the majority of Democrats who want peace.
Normally, U.S. political party platforms should not be read as outlines of what a party will do if given power. (Lists of donors should be read as outlines of what a party will do if given power.) Platforms should be read as the question section of a beauty contest. (And be grateful there’s no swimsuit section.)
Four years ago, the
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Deep Corporate America
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Imagine this: the second-richest man in the world — guess who! Yes, Elon Musk! — was reportedly planning to pump $45 million a month into a pro-Trump super PAC (though he