On Speaking Truth to Empire on KFCF 88.1 FM independently owned and locally operated since 1975 in Fresno, Dan Yaseen interviews Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Professor Emeritus from Bowling Green State University, Ohio and from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He is an author, blogger and a geopolitical analyst. They discuss American Imperial wars in Ukraine and Palestine, pager explosions in Lebanon and Putin’s warning to US and NATO. You can access
Please Stop Saying That Every War Is Not a War But Something Bad
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, September 20, 2024
Yes, I’m going to say this again. I’ve heard not the slightest hint of a refutation or objection to it, and yet so many, many people ignore it.
For the love of all that is decent, immediately stop the self-defeating idiocy of calling every goddamned war “not a war.”
Please. With all due respect.
“It’s not a war. It’s terrorism.” “It’s not a war. It’s genocide.” “It’s not a war. It’s an occupation.” “It’s not
Tomgram: Juan Cole, A Centrist Muslim Alliance Against an Extremist Israel?
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Here’s a strange connection between Israel and the United States. Let me put it to you as a kind of quiz: Which two leaders on this planet have, at least in part, organized their political lives to avoid trial convictions and/or possible jail time? Yes, in case you hadn’t guessed, I’m thinking of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the former American president
Tomgram: Stan Cox, It’s Not Music to Our Ears (or Our World)
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Once upon a time, there was something thrilling in record-breaking events like Babe Ruth’s 60th home run of the 1927 season. But today, maybe not. After all, we’ve just lived through the
Talk World Radio: Norman Solomon on Gaza War Made Invisible
This is the September 18 show published early.
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Portraits of Peacemakers
The great portraitist Robert Shetterly has a new collection out in a book titled Portraits of Peacemakers: Americans Who Tell the Truth.
I recommend getting a copy for every person you know who enjoys art or history or activism or who is concerned by the mass killing of war.
I don’t think I’m biased by the honor I feel at having my portrait included in a collection of such wonderful people. I may be biased by my interest in advancing the cause of peace — but outside of corporate
Tomgram: Michael Klare, Ensuring the Collapse of Civilization?
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I was born on July 20, 1944, in the midst of the Second World War. Barely a year later, the U.S. ended that conflict in the Pacific by dropping atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and creating two all-too-literal hells on Earth.
To this day, fortunately, no other nuclear weapons have ever been used (if, that is, you don’t count all the ones tested,
The Law of Force or the Force of Law
Are the nations of the world doomed to go on fighting the brutal, horrifying wars that have long characterized human history?
We might well wonder about that as we watch, aghast, while Israeli armed forces slaughter thousands of Palestinian civilians, Russian military might relentlessly pounds Ukrainian towns and cities into rubble, and new, bloody wars erupt in numerous other lands.
Why does such widespread destruction and human suffering persist in the modern, ostensibly “civilized,” world?
A
Ukraine: They’re Admitting the Lies and Escalating the War While We Look at Pet Eating Memes
One of the most impressive things about U.S. elections always appears to be the way in which the 96% of humanity outside of the United States consents to doing nothing at all for the better part of a year, so that U.S. media outlets can focus fulltime on the election. Of course, it could be that this, like much else in U.S. elections, is a bit of an illusion.
The highlights of the recent debate would seem to be, from the discussion that has followed:
- an aging fascist buffoon falsely claiming that a group of people he’s demonizing wants to eat your pets — the wrong kind of animals, you should be serving the livestock industry that is helping render the Earth uninhabitable — and
- the same racist nitwit fumbling around about having “concepts of a plan” for healthcare — but please pay no attention to the healthcare solution long since found by every other wealthy nation on the planet and shunned by both major political cartels in Washington.
And yet, the most significant bit of the debate
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Passing the Torch?
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When is it my turn to retire? That question represents both a distinct kind of horror and a certain luxury. Yes, one day you can simply stop and, even if you’re lucky enough not to be in instant need, as aging TomDispatch regular Rebecca Gordon vividly reminds us today (says 80-year-old