There are a lot of reasons for a progressive caring person not to be focused on the growing threat of fascism in the United States. After getting past all the pressing needs of one’s personal life (in a society of long hours, financial insecurity, poor healthcare, energetic kids drugged, a record number of adults imprisoned, the most finely tuned propaganda system ever devised, not to mention intimidation and fear), the main stumbling block is that everything is turned into a partisan question.
Tomgram: Nan Levinson, Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream
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Consider just one long-gone date in the world of give-peace-(not-war)-a-chance: January 27, 1973. On that day, the United States, North Vietnam, South Vietnam, and the South Vietnamese rebel forces signed
The Monroe Doctrine Is 200 and Should Not Reach 201
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, January 17, 2023
David Swanson is the author of the new book The Monroe Doctrine at 200 and What to Replace It With.
The Monroe Doctrine was and is a justification for actions, some good, some indifferent, but the overwhelming bulk reprehensible. The Monroe Doctrine remains in place, both explicitly and dressed up in novel language. Additional doctrines have been built on its foundations. Here are the words of the Monroe Doctrine, as carefully selected from President
Tomgram: William Hartung, Going Down the Military Drain
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Think of the F-35 jet fighter as the nightmare of the Pentagon budget in miniature. Manufactured by Lockheed Martin, it was to be the next F-16, a workhorse for the Air Force, the Marines, and the Navy. It’s now
Talk World Radio: Vijay Prashad on the Cold War in the Arctic
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Tomgram: William Astore, Humanity’s Worst Pastime
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Imagine this scenario for a moment: a “great power” watches another major power fight a war in a nearby nation for 10 years before its army
Martin Sherwin’s “Gambling with Armageddon”
The development and the deployment of nuclear weapons are usually based on the assumption that they enhance national security. But, in fact, as this powerful study of nuclear policy convincingly demonstrates, nuclear weapons move nations toward the brink of destruction.
The basis for this conclusion is the post-World War II nuclear arms race and, especially, the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962. At the height of the crisis, top officials from the governments of the United States and the
Video: The Monroe Doctrine at 200 and What to Replace it With
By Free Press Network, January 15, 2023
In this recording of a webinar from January 14, 2023, David Swanson discussed his forthcoming book The Monroe Doctrine at 200 and What to Replace it With. See the 26:24 point in the video.
The Monroe Doctrine was and is a justification for actions, some good, some indifferent, but the overwhelming bulk reprehensible. The Monroe Doctrine remains in place, both explicitly and dressed up in novel language. Additional doctrines have been built on its foundations.
In Praise of Email
Email doesn’t buzz my phone or watch.
Email can’t see me.
Email can’t hear me.
Email can’t cough on me.
I can delete an email without being rude.
I can laugh at an email without being rude.
I can adore an email and read it 18 times and research its topics and its author and its recipients and take hours replying, link to voluminous treatises for further reading, add graphics, and CC six people on six continents who would really like to see it, and BCC two more people who would really like to
This Business of Burning Human Beings
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, January 12, 2023
Remarks on RootsAction.org’s Defuse Nuclear War livestream on January 12, 2023. Video here.
Thank you for all for being here and for including me.
We know the risks. They’re no secret. The Doomsday clock has almost nowhere to go but oblivion.
We know what’s needed. We’ve made a national holiday of a man who said he would oppose all nukes and all wars without any regard to whether it was popular, who said the choice was between nonviolence