April 9, 2021
Plowshare Peace & Justice Center, Roanoke VA
Hate Taxes But Love WWII? You Obviously Don’t Know Where Taxes Came From
The United States excels at hating taxes, and for good reason. The U.S. government gives you damn near nothing in return for them. You pay them at a higher rate than do billionaires or corporations. Cheating is permitted only if at a sufficiently large scale. And once you’ve paid your taxes, you still have to rush out and pay for everything that your taxes buy you in other countries: healthcare, childcare, education, recreation, retirement, transportation, etc. Pretty soon you’re broke,
Talk World Radio: Guy Feugap on Making Peace in Cameroon
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This week on Talk World Radio, what’s going on in Cameroon. Our guest is Guy Feugap. He is coordinator
The Brutes Haven’t All Been Exterminated
Sometimes I struggle to explain why none of the endless wars can ever be ended. Are they just too profitable? Is the propaganda self-fulfilling and self-believing? Is the bureaucratic inertia that powerful? No combination of semi-rational motivations ever seems sufficient. But here’s a potentially relevant fact: there are still people alive in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, and Yemen.
There’s no secret memo in the Pentagon stipulating that every human being must be dead before the
Geologists Provide Perspective on Idea of Ending War on Afghanistan in Human Historical Time Frame
The U.S.-led Occupation of Afghanistan may be old enough to date or marry a Congress Member, but the time that nature took to form the Grand Canyon offers a more reasonable perspective on the fantasy of ending this war in a future foreseeable and measurable by available science, many sources say.
Ever since the current war on Afghanistan began, somewhere back in the Cheneyozoic, peaceniks, weirdos, and unrelated groups such as the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan — failing
Powerpoint on State of Peace and War and What We Can Do
From a webinar I did last night:
https://worldbeyondwar.org/wp-F-35s Are Terrorizing Vermont
When President Joe Biden proposes Trump-level military spending, he’s proposing to continue subsidizing the business of deadly weapons, first and foremost among them the F-35 stealth war plane. That it is a business, and not a “service,” should be evident from the fact that the F-35 is being sold to governments of various levels of brutality all around the globe, or from the New York Times having been reduced to
Biden’s Announcement That Trump Got Military Spending Just Right Is Dead Wrong
Talk World Radio: Peace Activism in Canada and on Campus
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This Week on Talk World Radio in the first half of the show our guest is Vanessa Lanteigne. Vanessa is the National Coordinator