The Chris Hedges Report: America’s dangerous leaders with Andrew Bacevich
"Broad in its scope yet concise, this is an important nonconformist interpretation of American history." Kirkus Reviews
Andrew Bacevich, A Very Long War: From Vietnam to Afghanistan with Detours Along the Way
Why Washington Can't Learn. Why did the United States fail so ignominiously in Vietnam? Why did it fail again in Afghanistan? The answers to these two questions turn out to be similar.
Was it Just? America and Her Suicidal Combat Veterans, by Matthew Hoh
"The cost of war, to many veterans, is a deep and permanent wounding of the soul and the conscience."
10 Reasons Why Defunding Police Should Lead to Defunding War
"Just as the U.S. was created by taking over the lands of Indigenous peoples by force, so America as an empire uses war to expand access to markets and resources"
Fourth of July Musings: The Curse of Exceptionalism and the Perils of Patriotism
"...empire-building has always been the path of this vocally republican nation. Like racism and slavery, empire evolved rather than ended."
MLK, Qassem Soleimani and the folly of American exceptionalism, by Jack Nelson Pallmeyer
"MLK's push for nonviolence is something to which we all should aspire."
Mike Pence Warns Against Participating in NoWar2019: Pathways to Peace
World BEYOND War’s fourth annual global conference on the abolition of war will be held on Saturday and Sunday, October 5th and 6th, in Limerick, Ireland, and include a rally on the 6th at Shannon Airport, where U.S. military forces routinely pass through in violation of Irish neutrality and of laws against war.
Daniel Berrigan: Parable of the Hole, read by Coleen Rowley and Bill Habedank, Peacestock (Video)
The Hole in the Ground: A Parable for Peacemakers is a compelling account of the drain of the arms race on human and material resources and the complicity of corporations and the American community in supporting the death trade. In the face of despair, Daniel Berrigan asks us to choose life, to choose for our More
An American Century of Carnage: Measuring Violence in a Single Superpower World
Creating a capacity for violence greater than the world has ever seen is costly -- and remunerative.
Henry A. Giroux | Trump’s War on Dangerous Memory and Critical Thought
Historical legacies of racist oppression and dangerous memories can be troublesome for the neo-fascist now governing American society.
Henry A. Giroux | Trump’s War on Dangerous Memory and Critical Thought
Historical legacies of racist oppression and dangerous memories can be troublesome for the neo-fascist now governing American society.
Learning to Claim Our Victories Or Why Fighting for Justice Is Like Surfing
Hillary Clinton actually said the words “systemic racism.” Never in our history has a mainstream presidential candidate described our country’s racial institutions in that kind of language.