Does the US Really Want War with Russia?
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Peace and War
Lessons for Peace from Back in the USSR
In the early 1980s almost nobody from the United States traveled to the Soviet Union or vice versa. The Soviets wouldn’t let anybody out, and good Americans were disinclined to visit the Evil Empire. But a woman in California named Sharon Tennison took the threat of nuclear war with the seriousness it deserved and still deserves. She got a group of friends together and asked the Russian consulate for permission to visit Russia, make friends, and learn.
Russia said fine. The U.S. government,
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Thomas Friedman Says Hillary's Lies No Big Deal
Most Hillary Clinton supporters, including Hillary, mostly spend their time talking about Trump, not Clinton, not Sanders, not what should be done in the U.S. government. But they don’t try to articulate a defense for this practice. A couple of obvious reasons (which they would not want to articulate) come to mind: (1) Hillary is incredibly unpopular, (2) Talking about Trump fuels the pretense that the primary is over.
Thomas “suck
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Cindy Sheehan and David Swanson on War Is A Lie
Peace Fresno event in Fresno, CA
Video by Richard Iyall, board member of Peace Fresno, also with Community Alliance newspaper of Fresno at fresnoalliance.com and of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe
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David Swanson on War Is A Lie in Sarasota
Thanks to Mark Binder,
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Talk Nation Radio: Sam Husseini on Greatness of Katharine Gun, How to Vote, and Hillary v. Muslims
https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-sam-husseini-on-greatness-of-katharine-gun-how-to-vote-and-hillary-v-muslims
Sam Husseini is the Communications director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, whom I have to thank for
How Dateline NBC Lies About Drones
By David Swanson
NBC’s Dateline program aired pro-drone propaganda this week and has posted the video online. Their so-called report purports to be “balanced” and “even-handed.” In fact it misleadingly promotes an extremely destructive government program that millions of people would protest if they knew the actual facts of the matter.
Dateline introduces us to drones with the claim that drones have saved lives by “hitting terrorist targets.” Unlike any
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Obama in Hiroshima Paints a Peace Sign on a Bomb
President Obama went to Hiroshima, did not apologize, did not state the facts of the matter (that there was no justification for the bombings there and in Nagasaki), and did not announce any steps to reverse his pro-nuke policies (building more nukes, putting more nukes in Europe, defying the nonproliferation treaty, opposing a ban treaty, upholding a first-strike policy, spreading nuclear energy far and wide, demonizing Iran and North Korea, antagonizing Russia, etc.).
Where Obama is usually credited
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"Looking Forward" Comes to Hiroshima
Never mind an apology, Obama should admit the truth
By David Swanson, TeleSUR
Since before he entered the White House, Barack Obama has proposed handling past crimes by powerful people and entities through a policy called “looking forward” — in other words, by ignoring them. While President Obama has targeted whistleblowers with retribution and more prosecutions than his predecessors, deported more immigrants, and kept the lights on in Guantanamo, anyone responsible for war or
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