Speaking Truth to Empire
On “Speaking Truth to Empire” on KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno, Dan Yaseen interviews Scott Ritter, he is a former U.S. Marine Corps intelligence officer who served in the former Soviet Union implementing arms control treaties, in the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Storm and in Iraq overseeing the disarmament of WMD. He is an author, his most recent book is Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika. Topic of discussion is ongoing Ukraine war.
Tomgram: William Hartung, A Hall of Shame of U.S. Weapons Sales
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As retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and historian William Astore wrote recently at his Bracing Views blog, while the Republicans didn’t experience their expected “red tide” on
Supporters of Peace on Earth Should Support Free College in the United States
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, November 15, 2022
The one nation on Earth that has not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the leading hold-out on basic human rights treaties in general, and the wealthy nation that imposes the biggest hurdles on young people seeking an education has a reason that’s seldom talked about for making college expensive and keeping the chains of student debt wrapped tightly around millions of ankles — and it’s a reason related to
Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Unasked Questions of 2022
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Admittedly, it’s dangerous to quote yourself. Still, I wrote this line in June of election season 2016, a moment when only one politician in America, sporting an acronymic MAGA he had
Talk World Radio: Jackie Cabasso on Nuclear Hypocrisy
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Tomgram: Rajan Menon, Our Global (Dis)Order and Climate Change
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Someday, Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine may be rated as the stupidest act in human history. In case you hadn’t noticed (and if so, where the hell have you been living?), our planet’s in genuine crisis. Flooding,
Struggle to Protect Montenegran Mountains from NATO Finally Making it into Media Outlets
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, November 14, 2022
For years we’ve been screaming at the tops of our lungs the story of the people of Montenegro putting their bodies on the line to save their mountain plateaux from the creation of a military training ground for NATO. (Sign the petition.)
Finally, we’re seeing the story in a few media outlets.
La Repubblica: In Montenegro la resistenza dei pastori al campo Nato
When Merchants of Death Visited Lockheed, Boeing, Raytheon, and General Atomics: Photos and Videos
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, Armistice Day, 2022
On Thursday, I caught up with representatives of MerchantsOfDeath.org who are planning a war crimes tribunal next year. They were delivering subpoenas to Washington, D.C.-area offices of Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, and General Atomics.
I missed the Lockheed stop but am told they were not very welcoming. I’m reminded of the last time I visited
Tomgram: Kelly Denton-Borhaug, What an American Addiction to War Means to Veterans
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I felt it then. I feel far more certain of it now. My dad, who died in 1983, was a member of what came to be known as the Greatest Generation, those who served in World War II. In fact, he volunteered the day after Pearl Harbor (though he was then old enough that he might not have been drafted) and ended up in the U.S. Army Air Corps — there was no separate Air Force in those