“Speaking Truth to Empire” on KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated in Fresno since 1975, Dan Yaseen interviews Regis Tremblay, an independent filmmaker. He is currently living in Yalta, Crimea of the Russian Federation. Topic of discussion will be Ukraine War and its geopolitical consequences. His website is: www.registremblay.com
Tomgram: Steve Fraser, The Republicans Face Off Against… Yes, Communism!
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Recently, at a well-publicized dinner, our former president — the one who encouraged a coup d’état to keep himself in power after losing an election — expressed his latest fear.
Tomgram: Gledhill and Hartung, Wasting Away at the Pentagon
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Recently, New York Times reporter Eric Lipton produced a remarkable piece on a group of small, supposedly fleet (as in speedy) U.S. naval vessels called littoral combat ships. Produced
Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, Giving Whataboutism a Chance
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The name of the game in Ukraine seems to be escalation, not just in the fighting (with a major Russian offensive expected soon), but in weaponry, too. Only recently,
Talk World Radio: Calling for Peace in Southern Ethiopia
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Homage to Russian War Resisters
Given the Russian government’s brutal repression of dissent, the level of Russian resistance to the Putin regime’s war on Ukraine is quite remarkable.
Beginning on the evening of February 24, 2022, the date of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, many thousands of Russians, defying threats from the authorities, staged nonviolent antiwar demonstrations across their nation. On the first night alone, police made
The Twentieth Century Reshaped the Monroe Doctrine
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, February 12, 2023
David Swanson is the author of the new book The Monroe Doctrine at 200 and What to Replace It With.
With the opening of the 20th century, the United States fought fewer battles in North America, but more in South and Central America. The mythical idea that a larger military prevents wars, rather than instigates them, often looks back to Theodore Roosevelt claiming that the United States would speak softly but carry a big stick — something that
Maryland, and Every Other State Should Stop Sending Guard Troops to Distant Wars
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, February 12, 2023
I drafted the following as testimony to the Maryland General Assembly in support of bill HB0220
A U.S. polling company called Zogby Research Services was able to poll U.S. troops in Iraq in 2006, and found that 72 percent of those polled wanted the war to be ended in 2006. For those in the Army, 70 percent wanted that 2006 ending date, but in the Marines only 58 percent did. In the reserves and National Guard, however, the numbers were 89 and
Through Cold and Snow, and Unarmed, People Try to Keep Their Mountain Out of War
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, February 12, 2023
When I tell some people that the inhabitants of certain mountains in Montenegro are trying to protect their home from being turned into a giant military training ground by NATO, they inform me that the training ground (which, up until that monent, they’d never heard of) in Montenegro (which they’d never heard of) is absolutely required because of Putin.
Needless to say, I think that Putin (and every living U.S. president, and quite a number
Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, Football’s One to the Heart
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Among all the things you can’t count on in this world, count on this: in the week between when I wrote this introduction and you read it, there will undoubtedly have been 10 or more mass shootings in America. After all, last month there were at