Yet Another #People’sPlatform Has Usual Anti-People Problem

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Donald Trump uses backdrops formed by crowds of boy scouts or soldiers. Progressive Democrats use documents called #People’sPlatform endorsed by numerous quasi-grassroots organizations.

Neither remotely approaches the far more desirable governance that one would get using direct democracy, governance by opinion poll. The reason for the pretense of populism is clear: people are wiser, even laboring under today’s relentless sewer of propaganda, than any contingent in either mega-party. read more

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Ethics of Not Ruining Everything

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Today I listened to the audio book of Entangled Empathy: An Alternative Ethic for Our Relationship With Animals by Lori Gruen while reading the hardcopy of From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds by Daniel Dennett. As a result I have been better able to empathize with Dennett’s obsession with the uniqueness of human consciousness, and I have been better able to marvel at the complex precision of Gruen’s theorizing. But I don’t seem to be any better read more

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Talk Nation Radio: Barbara Wien on Peace Studies and Peace Activism

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Barbara Wien teaches gender, global security and peace education at American University. Since 1981, she has worked to strengthen grassroots civil society networks for peace and democracy in 58 countries. She has led eight national nonprofit organizations, taught at six universities, and helped spark the development of 200 university Peace Studies programs. She is the author-editor of 23 publications in gender, economics, and nonviolence. She has protected civilians from the read more

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Talk Nation Radio: Nick Mottern on Air War Victims and Armed Drones

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Nick Mottern has worked as a reporter, researcher, writer and political organizer over the last 30 years. He is the author of Suffering Strong, recounting experiences of his first trip to Africa. He manages www.KnowDrones.com a website devoted to education and organizing to stop drone warfare and surveillance. He was director of the 2012 national Know Drones Tour and was an organizer of the 2013 April Days of Action and 2014 Spring read more

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Why We’re Kayaking to the Pentagon, and Why You Should Join Us

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One week before the #NoWar2017: War and the Environment conference, to be held September 22-24 at American Univeristy, World Beyond War will work with the Backbone Campaign and other allies to organize a flotilla for the environment and peace, bringing kayaktivism to Washington, D.C., on September 16th.

Why? What’s the relevance? Who’s drilling for oil on the Potomac?

Actually the Potomac is central headquarters for oil consumption, as the top way in which we consume oil is through preparing read more

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Major Mistake Found in Congressional Creation of Space Army

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Even CNN struggles to stay solemn, neither laughing nor vomiting, at news of Congress creating a new branch of the U.S. military to fight wars in space.

Of course, one purpose of militarizing space, which other nations have long supported banning by treaty, has for the United States long been to facilitate more unstoppable attacks on various corners of the little planet earth.

But another stated purpose of this legislation is to “guard the galaxy.” Here’s where a massive miscalculation read more

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G20 Protests Erupt; “#WTF” Silicon Valley Democrats

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On this episode of “By Any Means Necessary” host Eugene Puryear is joined by David Swanson, author, activist, journalist, and radio host and Will Griffin, board of directors of Veterans For Peace and the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space and the creator of The Peace Report, a source for antiwar media. The group talks about the G20 meeting in Hamburg, Germany, the over-hyped threat of North Korea and the role of war propaganda in US media.

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