As U.S. Pounds Seven Nations, Congressional Committee Warns of Running Out of Bombs
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Slim Pickings for Charlottesville City Council
Thus far I’m underwhelmed by the candidates seeking to join Charlottesville’s City Council this year, as well as, of course, by the current members. In the wake of the fascist rallies, the electoral system does not seem to be responding particularly well.
I don’t go in for the usual moronic popularity contest wherein we’re supposed to figure out which candidate we’d most like to be friends with. Instead, I try to approximate direct democracy by figuring out which candidate
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Vietghanistan’s New Year, War Lies’ New Millennium
The Afghanistan War documentary by Ken Burns III may someday be set for release in Spring 2074.
Or maybe not. The peace movement in the U.S. made Vietnam, rather than Korea, a topic for Burns. The peace movement is struggling to make people in the United States aware that the war on Afghanistan even exists, much less that it is entering its 17th year — making it something that people who still don’t recognize Native Americans as full humans call “the longest U.S. war.”
If
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Is the Nobel Committee Finally Abiding by Nobel’s Will?
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to the International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) — listen to my radio show with one of ICAN’s leaders two years ago here.
It’s conceivable that some Americans will now learn, because of this award, about the new treaty that bans the possession of nuclear weapons.
This treaty has been years in the works. This past summer 122 nations agreed on the language of it, including these words:
Each State Party undertakes
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People Don’t Kill People, Americans Kill People
Yes, of course, every day that Congress goes on refusing to ban guns is more blood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. It’s immoral, disgraceful, embarrassing, and in large part a function of financial corruption. But it’s also in part a government operating within a culture of violence — albeit one that the same government plays a huge role in creating.
U.S. movies, tv shows, video games, music, news, and schools are uniquely and increasingly violent. Primates’ chief form
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Talk Nation Radio: Cynthia and Sanford Levinson on Fault Lines in the Constitution
This week on Talk Nation Radio: two authors of an excellent new book called Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws that affect us today by Cynthia Levinson and Sanford Levinson. Cynthia Levinson is a former teacher and educational policy consultant and researcher and the author of several books for young readers. Sanford is a professor in the law school and the dept of govt at the University of Texas and a visiting professor at Harvard Law School.
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I’ll Be Speaking in Los Angeles on November 4 and 5, 2017
You are invited to the following two free events:
Saturday, November 4th – 7:00 PM, Doors Open at 6:30 PM
The Peace Center, 3916 Sepulveda Blvd, Culver City 90230, Located Between Washington & Venice Blvds, Next Door to The Ramada Inn, Plenty of Parking Behind the Building
David will be Introduced by KPFK’s Lila Garrett. The Event will be Hosted by Frank Dorrel.
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I just won a TED Talks Open Mic — here’s my 4-minute talk
On Oct 2, 2017, 20 of us gave 4-minute TED talks in Charlottesville and I won, allowing me to give a TED talk at the upcoming November 3, 2017, event at Charlottesville’s Paramount Theater. This was my 4-minute talk on “Why End War.” #TedXCville
Video by Wes Swanson.
Thank you to everyone who voted for me.
I wish all the great speakers could have won.
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What’s North Korea Afraid of?
“Peace” clubs in U.S. schools are likely to teach that a local bully is afraid and in need of help. They are much less likely to teach that about entities involved in the actual subject of peace (meaning the absence of war), such as — to take the example momentarily most prominent in U.S. propaganda — North Korea.
“Ignorance about the Korean war,” writes Blaine Harden, “has . . . led to the cartoonish ahistorical understanding many Americans still have
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The World Is Banning Nuclear Weapons — Can Trumpland Join the World?
Scientists tell us that a single nuclear weapon could cause devastating climate change.
Donald Trump tells us . . . well, a bunch of incoherent gibberish that seems to include the illegal threat to use nuclear weapons if he should be in the mood to commit genocide in North Korea.
Meanwhile 122 countries have creates a treaty to ban the possession of nuclear weapons, and 53 have already signed it, these 53:
Compare that map with the map of countries that own nuclear weapons:
Israel may be too small
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