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Imagine a world in which one in every 20 of us, approximately 6% of the population, owns not just a gun but a military-style assault rifle. We’re talking about a weapon like
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Although supporters of the Russian invasion, occupation, and annexation of Ukraine blame “U.S. imperialism” for the Ukraine War, the U.S. role has been relatively minor. The major actors have been Ukrainians, striving for independence, and Russians, striving to end it.
For centuries, a great many Ukrainians, chafing under Czarist and, later, Soviet rule, longed for national independence. This rejection of Russian domination―based in part on Stalin’s extermination of four
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War, What Is It Good For? Remarkably Little If You’re a “Great” Power on Planet Earth in the Twenty-First Century ByI was born on July 20, 1944, amid a vast global conflict already known as World War II. Though it ended with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 before I could say much more than “Mama” or “Dada,” in some strange fashion, I grew up at war.
Living in New York City, I was near no conflict in those years or in any since. My dad, however, had volunteered
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rated in Fresno since 1975, Dan Yaseen interviews Jodie Evans, she has been a peace, environmental, women’s rights and social justice activist for over forty-five years. She is the co-founder of CODEPINK. She has traveled extensively to war zones promoting and learning about peaceful resolutions to conflicts. Jodie has produced several acclaimed documentary films. They discuss CODEPINK, BRICS, China’s brokered
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, April 23, 2023
What’s something that nobody can give you unless you want it?
An enemy.
This ought to be obviously true in both the personal sense and the international sense.
In your personal life, you acquire enemies by seeking them out and choosing to have them. And if, through no fault of your own, someone is cruel to you, the option remains of not behaving cruelly in return. The option remains of not even thinking anything cruelly in return. That option might
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, April 21, 2023
Some countries have a Catholic Church holiday every day of the year. The United States has a war holiday every day of the year. Some of them, such as so-called Veterans Day, began as peace holidays that — like Mother’s Day or Martin Luther King Jr. Day — were carefully stripped of any peace content, and were instead turned toward the glorification of war and war
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Today’s remarkable tax-time look at what TomDispatch regular Rebecca Gordon calls “the non-profit industrial complex” reminded me of just how lucky I’ve been running this website all these years. As a start, I’ve had you, the readers of TomDispatch,