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Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, The Poverty of the Political Mind
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Never Withdraw a Demand for Diplomacy
As in most wars, both sides of the one in Ukraine have predicted total victory month after month — with no evidence that either side has ever been remotely right about that.
The U.S. is establishing a seemingly permanent infrastructure for a forever war, the two most likely eventual endings of which are nuclear apocalypse or negotiated peace.
Is it really going to be unacceptable to have a preference for peace? Must it be forbidden
Talk World Radio: Drone Murders and Merchants of Death
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Tomgram: Chris Hedges, My War Never Ends
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War is, to say the least, nothing new. In his memorable first book, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, Chris Hedges began with a
If We Can Find Just 238 More Congress Members Who Don’t Want Us All to Die . . .
When an election has been very close, many factors can be pointed to as each having been enough to make the difference. One of those in 2016 was very suggestive and very much ignored by, as far as I know, every single major media outlet except this one. I mean the phenomenon of military families voting against Hillary Clinton, believing her more likely than Donald Trump to get their loved ones killed. It seems this factor decided the election.
We’re often told that the U.S. public loves war and
Tomgram: Nick Turse, Keeping an Eye on AFRICOM, Ten Years Later
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Today’s Nick Turse piece on U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) plunged me into an all-American past that, in light of this planet’s chaotic present, had faded from my mind a bit. After all, TomDispatch began more than 20 years ago in the wake of the al-Qaeda attacks of September 11, 2001. In a sense, this site was my response to the way President George W. Bush and
Audio: Leaving WWII Behind: David Swanson
By Jack Shalom, October 22, 2022
As wars rage all around us, one war, WW II, still stands as the exemplar for the Good War. But is that a useful or accurate designation? And if not, why does that view still have such an outsized influence in the national discourse? I spoke with David Swanson who has written a book called Leaving World War II Behind which challenges the notion of WWII as the Good War.
Speaking Truth to Empire
“Speaking Truth to Empire” on KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno, Dan Yaseen interviews Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODEPINK, a women led peace group working to end US wars and militarism. Medea is an author and a peace & justice activist. She has worked for social justice and human rights in Asia, the Americas, and Africa for over 30 years. Topics of discussion include worsening U.S. – Russia relations; War
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Is There an Off-Ramp from the Latest Forever War?
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Thinking about the world of war explored today by TomDispatch regular Karen Greenberg, author most recently of Subtle