The Truth About Israel and Its Wars: Colonel Larry Wilkerson and Scott Ritter

Israel’s fortunes in its conflicts in the Middle East are the opposite of what is being reported in our highly propagandized media. Colonel Larry Wilkerson and Scott Ritter give us the realities of the situation. Larry Wilkerson is a renowned defense analyst and a Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Government & Public…

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There Is Only One Spaceship Earth | An Essay by William J. Astore

Freeing the World from the Deadly Shadow of Genocide and Ecocide When I was in the U.S. military, I learned a saying (often wrongly attributed to the Greek philosopher Plato) that only the dead have seen the end of war. Its persistence through history to this very moment should indeed be sobering.…

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There Is Only One Spaceship Earth: Freeing the World from the Deadly Shadow of Genocide and Ecocide by William J. Astore

[ “We know from history that it’s far easier to destroy than to create, far easier to kill than to preserve. Yet when countries make genocide or ecocide (from nuclear winter) possible and defensible (as a sign of uncompromising ‘toughness’ and perhaps the defense of ‘freedom’), you know that their…

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Patrick Lawrence: Full-Dress Irrationality

Whenever Joe Biden speaks, you have to make sure your bullshit detector is switched on, to borrow Hemingway’s pungent phrase. As is well-documented, our president has spent his public life making it up as he goes along. No surprise, there was a lot of boilerplate junk in the two much-noted…

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Bertrand Russell and Ban the Bomb

It’s so long ago, I can’t remember how it came to my attention. I was 13 years old and no one in my family or anyone in the blue collar community we lived in had a clue who Bertrand Russell was or why he was taking on the military and political establishments…

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