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My life began in wartime — World War II — and, if Donald Trump has anything to say about it, will evidently end in war, too. The president who, as advertised, didn’t go to war in his first term in office, also
This is excerpted and adapted from Swanson’s new book, War Is Still A Racket.
In the peace movement in the United States—or at least in any antiwar circles that involve Veterans For Peace or other veterans groups, or that take an interest in the financial corruption that surrounds wars—Major General Smedley Darlington Butler (1881-1940) is a mythical and heroic figure and has been for almost a century. He is best known for the text contained in Part I of my new book, a passionate rejection
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“You Dirty ORANGE Maniac! You Blew It All Up! Damn You to Hell!”
The President of Ultimate Destruction
When he’s on full blast, Donald Trump (not so long ago the “drill,
On Speaking Truth to Empire on KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno, Dan Yaseen interviews Ramzy Baroud, a US-Palestinian journalist, media consultant, an author, internationally-syndicated columnist, and the Editor of The Palestine Chronicle. He is the author of six books and a contributor to many others; his latest book is, “Before the Flood: A Gaza Family Memoir Across Three Generations of Colonial Invasion, Occupation, and War in Palestine”. His books
If the objective of the U.S. war upon Iran is to ensure that that country does not develop nuclear weapons, that goal was attained more than a decade ago through a far different approach than the one now being followed by the Trump administration.
Iran, as a signer of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty of 1970, had agreed to forgo the development of nuclear weapons. Even so, fears grew during the early 21st century
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TomDispatch authors don’t usually have much in common with Donald J. Trump, but here’s an exception. TomDispatch regular Liz Theoharis recently visited the Supreme Court to hear a case on immigrant asylum that her organization, the Kairos Center, was involved
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I have to admit that it couldn’t be stranger (or, given this country’s history in my lifetime, do I mean less strange?) to be facing yet another all-American war, this time in Iran, fiercely
By David Swanson, Progressive Hub, April 15, 2026
Nell Bernstein’s new book is called In Our Future We Are Free: The Dismantling of the Youth Prison. It tells us that in the United States in 2000 the number of young people held inside locked buildings was 108,800 and in 2022 it was 27,600. At least two-thirds of youth prisons and jails have been shut down. This is an enormous, dramatic, positive development in an era when most people imagine that the closest thing to good news out
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Just keep in mind, as a start, that the administration of Donald Trump has been attempting to restrict immigration to this country almost exclusively to — yes,
Do you like audio books? I do. What about peace, do you like that? I’m referring to peace here as the absence of war. I’m not intending to challenge everyone’s favorite aphorism that — chant it with me — “Peace Is More Than the Absence of War.” I’m just referring to that thing, whatever it is that includes the absence of war plus some other stuff.
If you search for “Peace” on mega-audio-book-supplier Audible (or at least if I do — perhaps everyone’s search results are unique,