Officially, of course, the national bird of the United States is that half-a-peace-sign that Philadelphia sports fans like to hold up at opposing teams. But unofficially, the film National Bird has it right: the national bird is a killer drone.
Finally, finally, finally, somebody allowed me to see this movie. And finally somebody made this movie. There have been several drone movies worth seeing, most
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Timeka Drew is National Director of the Liberty Tree Foundation, a position she has served in since February of
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By David Swanson, World Beyond War
I recently debated a pro-war professor on the topic “Is war ever necessary?” (video). I argued for abolishing war. And because people like to see successes before doing something, no matter how indisputably possible that thing is, I gave examples of other institutions that have been abolished in the past. One might include such practices as human sacrifice, polygamy, cannibalism, trial by ordeal, blood
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In your website http://worldbeyondwar.org/ you say: “We strive to replace a culture of war with one of peace, in which nonviolent means of conflict resolution take the place of bloodshed”. So which role and value can nonviolence have in building such a culture?
Nonviolent action can play at least three roles here.
What can be done in your opinion to transform the culture of violence and revenge that produces so many victims
It’s all Assad’s fault and the U.S., ISIS, al Nusra, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and anybody who will help should overthrow him come what may.
It’s all a U.S. crime, and Syria, Russia, and Iran should fix it with bombs.
It’s all an ISIS problem that should be solved with U.S. and Russian bombs plus lots more arms for the moderate murderers.
The whole thing is Russia’s fault and it should go home or fight an ever more heavily armed collection of moderate, extremist,
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By David Swanson, originally published by the Fairbanks Alaska Daily Miner
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An interview of me at this link.
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The 2016 Republican presidential primary was rigged. It wasn’t rigged by the Republicans, the Democrats, Russians, space aliens, or voters. It was rigged by the owners of television networks who believed that giving one candidate far more coverage than others was good for their ratings. The CEO of CBS Leslie Moonves said of this decision: “It may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS.” Justifying that choice based on polling gets the chronology backwards,
Emily Johnston and Annette Klapstein face felony charges for having shut down fossil fuel pipelines.
Johnston says:
To
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