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Stop Endless U.S. Wars
Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen & Everywhere
Say NO to U.S. War on Iran & North Korea
U.S. Hands Off Venezuela and Bolivia
How America’s Wars End (Messily), by Danny Sjursen
Count on this: the end of the American military mission in Afghanistan will be unfulfilling and likely tragic.
Boondoggle, Inc. Making Sense of the $1.25 Trillion National Security State Budget
Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and their cohorts — are laughing all the way to the bank.
War Mongering, Iran, Yemen, Russia: Chris Hedges, Code Pink, Wm. J. Astore and more
Several articles are included in this post. To read the articles, click on the title or if available, the Read More link. The American Cult of Bombing Consortium News Originally published under William Astore, The American Cult of Bombing and Endless War on Tom Dispatch June 10, 2019 William J. Astore analyzes the fallacies behind the […]
Green New Deal Advocates Should Address Militarism, by Medea Benjamin – Alice Slater
Where is the call for the New Peace Deal that would free up hundreds of billions from the overblown military budget to invest in green infrastructure? Environmentalists need to contest the Pentagon’s staggering global footprint. The US military is the world’s largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels and the largest source of greenhouse gasses, contributing about 5 percent of global warming emissions.
Syria – a case study in propaganda, by Chris Kanthan
In a democracy, the most important but least understood tool is propaganda. Let me share with you the fundamentals of a successful propaganda campaign.
Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, On Seeing America’s Wars Whole, A Letter to the NYT
The key point is that when it comes to recent American wars, the Times offers coverage without perspective.
Why Are Some on the Left Falling for Fake News on Syria? by Sonali Kolhatkar
If leftist and progressive calls to curb American imperialism are to be taken seriously, our analysis of international relations and foreign policy needs to be far more sophisticated.
Recipe for Perpetual War by Coleen Rowley and Robert Wing
Our out of control national destructiveness and its unspeakable costs constitute the “spiritual death” that Martin Luther King warned us about at the height of the Vietnam War, yet they remain mostly unaddressed in public discourse.
Organizing Resistance to Internet Censorship with Chris Hedges and David North (Video)
A dialog between David North and Chris Hedges, live-streamed worldwide tonight, January 16, 2018.
Tom Engelhardt | Mapping a World from Hell: 76 Countries Are Now Involved in Washington’s War on Terror
The Costs of War Project has produced not just a map of the war on terror, 2015-2017 (released at TomDispatch with this article), but the first map of its kind ever. It offers an astounding vision of Washington’s counterterror wars across the globe…
The US Military Is the Biggest “Big Government” Entitlement Program on the Planet
It actively picks private sector winners by targeting billions of dollars to an elite group of profit-seeking contractors.
Entire Families are Being Killed by U.S. Airstrikes in Raqqa, Syria
U.S. commander: “we shoot every boat we find.”
Pete Seeger: Waist Deep in the Big Muddy (Video/Audio)
Afghanistan again, North Korea, Ukraine, etc., ad nauseam. End Endless War
Sanctions Are Crimes, Not Law Enforcement by David Swanson
Why do I call the crimes being punished imaginary?
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 […]
The Cost of War: Jack Nelson Pallmeyer at Peacestock (Video)
Militarism as religion in America, permanent war state, and non-military solutions.
Mary Beaudoin | White Phosphorous and U.S. Bombs on Iraqi and Syrian Cities
Strikes in Iraq and Syria:
As of June 5, 2017, the U.S. has conducted 17,632 strikes in Iraq and Syria (8,836 Syria/8,796 Iraq)
The “Elite” ─ The Rulers 21st Century Style
Can you have a democracy that organizes itself around violence and war?
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