War Is A Crime

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The language should seem familiar: “I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.” That, of course, is — and in our moment in America, could read more

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As a teenager, I certainly watched the remarkable Cleveland Browns fullback Jim Brown run amuck on a football field and I’m sure I wasn’t happy about it, since he was doing so against “my” team, the New York Giants. But he was a great read more

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Recently, a new word burst into our political world. I’m thinking, of course, of “weaponization.” In response to the charges Special Counsel Jack Smith recently lodged against Donald Trump for misusing and abusing classified documents, Republicans read more

Some books shouldn’t have to exist, but you’re glad they do. This one describes a whole field of work — using art-creation to help kids in Arizona and Southern California deal with trauma created by anti-immigrant policies and attitudes — which shouldn’t have to exist, but you’re glad it does. The book is called Drawing Deportation: Art and Resistance Among Immigrant Children by Sylvia Rodriguez Vega. The author has worked with kids in school classes, helping them to create read more

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Living on a Smoke-Bomb of a Planet September 11th, Climate-Change-Style By Tom Engelhardt

As it turns out, it’s never too late. I mention that only because last week, at nearly 79, I managed to visit Mars for the first time. You know, the red planet, or rather — so it seemed to me — the orange read more

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, June 14, 2023

A new report from the University of Maryland, somewhat misleadingly reported on here, draws on a database read more

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Yes, a crucial Ukrainian dam is destroyed, the downriver communities flood, and the danger to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant only grows. It could prove Ukraine’s worst read more

This is the June 21 Episode, published early.

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It couldn’t be stranger when you think about it. This country has been at war nonstop since September 12, 2001. It’s poured our taxpayer dollars — an estimated $8 trillion of them — down the sinkhole of those read more