Before Neera Tanden can become Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Senators must approve. And before that, they must ask questions. Here are some suggestions for what they should ask.
1. You supported an attack on Libya that proved fraudulently marketed, illegal, and catastrophic in results, after which you argued in an email to your colleagues for trying to force Libya to pay via oil profits
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If I search on Google for the words “drones” and “morality” most of the results are from 2012 through 2016. If I search for “drones” and “ethics” I get a bunch of articles from 2017 to 2020. Reading the various websites confirms the obvious hypothesis that (as a rule, with plenty of exceptions) “morality” is what people mention
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This week on Talk Nation Radio: Where did Coronavirus come from? What do we know? What do we not know? What is it crazy to ask? What is it crazy not to ask? And why aren’t more people interested? Our guest is Sam Husseini.
Sam Husseini is an independent journalist (and artist) living in Maryland, his website is husseini.org.
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Michael T. Klare, The Nation’s defense correspondent, is professor emeritus of peace and world-security studies at Hampshire College and senior visiting fellow at the Arms Control Association in Washington, DC. Most recently, he is the author of All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon’s Perspective on Climate Change, and his latest article for The Nation is “A Very Trumpian Christmas Surprise? Signs Point to a Possible US Attack on Iran.”
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Hyun Lee: National Organizer, Women Cross the DMZ
Jodie Evans: Co-Founder, CODE PINK; China is Not our Enemy
David Swanson: Executive Director, World BEYOND War
Leah Bolger: Board President, World BEYOND War
Molly Hurley: Organizer, Beyond the Bomb
Panelists discuss the Korea Peace Now campaign; the China is Not our Enemy campaign; Denuclearization in Asia; Visions of a World BEYOND War and World BEYOND War’s campaign to close US military bases.
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Nicolas “Sandy” Davies is a freelance writer, a researcher for CODEPINK and the author of Blood On Our Hands: the American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq. We discuss the article he wrote with Medea Benjamin, “Will Biden’s America Stop Creating Terrorists?”
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Did you ever wonder whether Western culture focuses on destroying rather than preventing cancer, and talks about it with all the language of a war against an enemy, just because that’s how this culture does things, or whether the approach to cancer was actually created by people waging a real war?
This story was not actually a secret anymore, yet I didn’t know much about it until I read The Great Secret by Jennet Conant.
Bari is a lovely Southern Italian port city with a cathedral where
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1. Reports on the climate collapse have stopped in some cases the nonsense talk about needing the United States to “lead,” and even gone beyond urging it to get out of last place, and begun demanding that it do its fair share to undo its share of the damage. That’s the same thing we need on militarism, when U.S. weapons are on both sides of most wars, almost all foreign bases are U.S. bases, and most people in the U.S. can’t begin to name its current wars, drone murders,
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