David Swanson on the Terry Lee Show discussing War Is Still A Racket.
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Tomgram: William deBuys, The Border Wall Thrives, The Borderlands Don’t
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Here’s a question for you: in addition to wiping out the East Wing of the White House to build his future ballroom and so much more, including the construction of a
Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, The Trauma and the Terror Among Us
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Yes, how truly (truly!) strange. I must admit that when President George W. Bush announced the launching of what he all too bluntly came to call “the Global War on Terror,” or GWOT, in response to
Talk World Radio: John Sayles on Crucible
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Tomgram: William D. Hartung, Shutting Down the War Machine
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Consider the change remarkable in its own fashion. The “President of PEACE” in his first term in office has distinctly become the President of WAR the second time around, whether in the
Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Military Disasters and the End of Empire
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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
Listen to Smedley Butler
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
Tomgram: Engelhardt, DECLINE!!!
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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,
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 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
How the International Community Obtained a Nuclear Weapons-Free Agreement with Iran–and Lost It Thanks to Donald Trump
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