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Hey, it’s the MIC, right? I’m thinking, of course, about the military-industrial complex. In this century, it’s taken more taxpayer dollars than perhaps any other part of the government, with a Pentagon “budget” that’s now heading for $900 billion a year. At this moment, President Trump has
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Yes, Donald Trump intends to rid this country of untold hundreds of thousands (millions?) of immigrants of color, starting with the Venezuelans he’s begun dispatching to a U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay,
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D Is for Donald (and Decline) The Big 3Ds (or Is It Four?) ByCount on one thing: in some almost unimaginable future, no American president (if we even have them anymore) is going to rename a mountain for Donald Trump as he’s recently tried to do with North America’s
On Speaking Truth to Empire on KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno, Dan Yaseen interviews
Joe Lombardo, a long time antiwar and anti-Empire activist, he is the co-coordinator of the United National Antiwar Coalition. UNAC a national antiwar coalition that fights against wars at home and abroad. They discuss Trump’s first month in the White House and how will it affect our foreign and domestic policies.
By Pacifist Barricade, February 22, 2025
The political scene in the United States has become a crucible of radical transformations. Each day brings forth inflammatory statements and shifting landscapes. Donald Trump’s presidency is nothing short of unconventional, keeping activists and journalists on edge with his declarations and actions. What does Trump’s presidency mean for the pacifist movement? We sat down with David Swanson, Executive Director of World BEYOND War, to discuss the
Only a month into his second term as president, Donald Trump is well underway toward destroying crucial rights of American workers.
Currently, the best known of these threatened rights is probably job security, for the sudden onset of Trump’s mass, indiscriminate firing of more than 200,000 federal government workers has sparked a furor. Employed by the Departments of Education and Veterans Affairs, the
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Boy, Donald Trump couldn’t be more graphic in telegraphing the way he’s planning to treat detained illegal immigrants, could he?
A little background first: starting in 2002, the U.S. sent prisoners from the disastrous Global War on Terror it launched in response to the 9/11 attacks, some
By The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow, February 19, 2025
David Swanson is Campaign Coordinator for RootsAction.org and is co-founder of World BEYOND War. He recently returned from the 6th Annual Conference for World Balance, which promotes peace and solidarity, global dialogue, and an end to runaway materialism. We discussed the conference, global activism, the need to build stronger coalitions—and much more.
Wouldn’t it be nice if the war in Ukraine were entirely one side’s fault, if the U.S. had one political party that did everything perfectly, if USAID had only ever caused either benefit or harm, and if all the self-contradictory gibberish coming out of Trump’s pie hole were either lies or holy gospel? A lot of people sure seem to think so.
Here in the real world, things are ever so slightly more complex than in a cartoon. A war can develop through evil actions by two — count ’em — sides.