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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
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.
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,
Wednesday March 19 – 3 to 3:30 p.m.
“Speaking Truth to Empire” on KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated in Fresno since 1975, Dan Yaseen interviews Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODEPINK and Global Exchange. A leading antiwar and social justice activist, she has been fighting for human rights for over 50 years. She has authored 11 books, her articles appear on The Hill, Salon, CounterPunch, LA Progressive and many other online websites. They discuss Trump’s bombing
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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),
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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
David Hartsough, whom we have just lost to cancer at the age of 84, was a giant in the world of recent and not so recent peace activism and not just peace activism. While nobody focused more on highlighting and promoting the work of others, and on organizing and funding and supporting the work of others, David Hartsough’s own story is one of the most remarkable to be found in the genre of lives lived to their fullest for the good of all.
Parts of David Hartsough’s story are told in his 2014