CrossTalk: Terror over Sinai
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Peace and War
5 Things to Do About ISIS, or Can an American Without a Gun "Do Something"?
Toward the end of altering our idea of what counts as “doing something,” I offer this composite representation of numerous media interviews I’ve done.
Interviewer: So you’d stop the planes and the drones and the bombs and the special forces. You’ve said lots about what you wouldn’t do, but can you say what you would do?
Me: Sure, I believe the United States government should propose and attempt to negotiate and at the same time unilaterally
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Talk Nation Radio: Husain Abdulla on Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain
https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-husain-abdulla-on-americans-for-democracy-and-human-rights-in-bahrain
Husain Abdulla, originally from Bahrain, is the founder and Executive Director of Americans for Democracy and Human
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Russian Media
Watch me criticize Russia on Russian media (7 minutes in). Imagine US media allowing such talk about US!
https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/322473-terror-sinai-plane-crash/
Bernie Sanders Mentioned the Military Budget
If U.S. President were not a mythical position but a serious job, the job interview would include asking the candidates their basic plans of action. This would start with, “What will you encourage Congress to spend a couple of trillion dollars on each year?”
At the moment, about half of federal discretionary spending is spent on one thing, militarism. A basic budget proposal from each candidate would tell us whether they think military spending should go up or down. Some of the Republicans
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Non-French War Deaths Matter
We are all France. Apparently. Though we are never all Lebanon or Syria or Iraq for some reason. Or a long, long list of additional places.
We are led to believe that U.S. wars are not tolerated and cheered because of the color or culture of the people being bombed and occupied. But let a relatively tiny number of people be murdered in a white, Christian, Western-European land, with a pro-war government, and suddenly sympathy is the order of the day.
“This is not just an attack on the French
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Why Allen Dulles Killed the Kennedys
By now there’s not nearly as much disagreement regarding what happened to John and Robert Kennedy as major communications corporations would have you believe. While every researcher and author highlights different details, there isn’t any serious disagreement among, say, Jim Douglass’ JFK and the Unspeakable, Howard Hunt’s deathbed confession, and David Talbot’s new The Devil’s Chessboard.
Jon Schwarz says
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Peace Advocate Climbs U.S. Navy Satellite Dish in Sicily
Credit to Fabio d’Alessandro for the photo and alerting me to the story, reported in Italian at Vice and Meridionews.
On the morning of Armistice Day, November 11, 2015, longtime peace activist Turi Vaccaro climbed to where you see him in the photo above. He brought a hammer and made this a Plowshares action by hammering on the enormous satellite dish, an instrument of U.S. warfare communications.
Here’s a video:
There’s
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Talk Nation Radio: Dave Chaddock on U.S. Germ Warfare in North Korea
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Dave Chaddock is the author of This Must Be the Place: How the U.S. Waged Germ Warfare in the Korean War and Denied It Ever Since.
Total run time: 29:00
Host:
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