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DONATE TODAY Media for Justice and Peace New Posts for February 7, 2023 PLEASE SHARE WIDELY TOP STORIES Is Nuclear War Imminent? Robert Scheeer interviews William J. Astore “We need to act together as citizens to be that vital check on the military industrial congressional complex, which is why I think there are so many More

Poetic Nonviolent Victory Over War, by Brad Wolf

If we take our humanity seriously, our response to the warmakers must be rebellion. Peaceful and poetic, forceful and unrelenting. We need to raise the human condition as they seek to degrade it. The Merchants of Death cannot defeat a movement that speaks the language of poetry.

Ukraine and the Triumph of Militarism, by Caitlin Johnstone

What makes Tierney’s triumphant militarist smut so annoying isn’t how he’s wrong, it’s how he’s right. You can take issue all you like with his use of the word “left” to describe liberal supporters of capitalism and empire who just want the empire to be a bit less embarrassing and maybe forgive their student loans, but that’s the fault of the generations of psyops that have gone into sabotaging the left and destroying its memory, not Tierney’s.

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