In recent decades, a segment of the global Left has looked upon the U.S. government as the Great Satan in international affairs, responsible for the world’s major ills. Thus, on those occasions when countries at odds with the United States behaved like brutal imperialist powers, these “campists” (as they were called thanks to their division of the world into an evil U.S. imperialist
Tell the Ukrainian Government to Drop Prosecution of Peace Activist Yurii Sheliazhenko
By World BEYOND War, August 3, 2023
Yurii Sheliazhenko has been formally charged by the Ukrainian government with the crime of justifying Russian aggression. The evidence is this statement which explicitly condemns Russian aggression.
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We call on you to drop any legal proceedings against Yurii Sheliazhenko, and to respect human rights, the right to conscientious objection, and the right to freedom of speech. The absurdity
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Extremely Extreme
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Me First America 19th, the Planet Last ByHey, who knows? It could be the Gulf Stream collapsing or the planet eternally breaking heat records. But whatever the specifics, we’re living it right now, not in
Talk World Radio: Kennedy’s Peace Speech Set to Music
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Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Guantánamo 21 Years Later
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For more than 18 years, Karen Greenberg has been writing about the crimes the U.S. committed at its offshore prison of injustice at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. It would be, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld assured Americans, “the least worst place” (a phrase
Tomgram: William Hartung, Cashing in on a Perpetual Nuclear Arms Race
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Yes, the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima on August 6 and Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, would kill staggering numbers of people and be an eerily (if all too grimly) appropriate ending to the war that started with the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and, by August 1945, had resulted in the saturation bombing of 64 Japanese cities.
The scientist who led
Tomgram: Cox, The War You’re Not Reading About
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Let me just express my embarrassment that, while I certainly noticed when war broke out in Sudan in April, I simply forgot about it thereafter. You might wonder how I could do that, but it’s all too true. I quite
Talk World Radio: Helena Cobban on Climate Crisis in the Capitalistocene
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Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Outlaw Superpower
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It could be the greatest crime in history and that, believe me, is saying a lot. I’m talking, of course, about the broiling of a planet where heat records are being set globally on an almost daily basis in what’s likely to be the hottest year in possibly — yes! — a million years (long before, that is, human beings even existed).
And the biggest criminals? The ultimate
One U.S. Senator and Zero Representatives Say They’ll Vote No Unless Military Spending Reduced
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, July 25, 2023
In recent years, and again this year, to my knowledge, only a single member of either house of the U.S. Congress has said publicly, prior to voting No on a military spending bill, that he or she planned to vote No because the spending was too high. The same individual has done this more than once, and nobody else has done it at all. That individual is Senator Bernie Sanders. He says he will vote no on