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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Annie Jacobsen: The Horrifying Prospect of Nuclear War Is Becoming Increasingly Likely

Annie Jacobsen (born June 28, 1967) is an American investigative journalist, author, and a 2016 Pulitzer Prize finalist. She was a contributing editor to the Los Angeles Times Magazine from 2009 until 2012. Jacobsen writes about war, weapons, security, and secrets. Jacobsen is best known as the author of the 2011 non-fiction book, Area 51: An Uncensored…

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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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William J. Astore: Enough Is Enough

February 19th was the Rage Against the War Machine rally in DC.  That just so happens to be my dad’s birthday as well.  He was born on that date in 1917, endured the Great Depression, worked in the Civilian Conservation Corps and in factories until being drafted in 1942, and after…

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Coleen Rowley Interview: An Objective Look at U.S. Foreign Policy

Events continue to unfold at a quickening pace. Facing an alarming escalation in tensions around the world, we asked Coleen Rowley for her current thoughts.  We focus on the realities of the international power struggle unfolding in real time, specifically addressing the role of the U.S. in the tensions and…

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No Excuse For Ignorance: Book Recommendations by John Rachel

I’m well aware of the deluge of lies, misinformation, disinformation, historical amnesia, ideological bias, and pure tribal hatred for Russia and Vladimir Putin, which saturates the media, with any mention of Russia, Ukraine, NATO, and the EU, by politicians, celebrities, commentators, every talking head who gets shoved in our faces…

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Scott Ritter: The US keeps reneging on arms control agreements, so why should Russia trust Joe Biden’s latest overtures?

This week, in an address to the Tenth Review Conference for the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons – which had convened at the United Nations Headquarters in New York – US President Joe Biden made a forceful appeal to Russia regarding the need to resume arms control talks. “Today,” Biden…

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‘Guns Should Not Be In The Hands Of The Mentally Unstable,’ Says Senile Man With Nukes

WASHINGTON, D.C.—A senile old man in Washington who has a deadly nuclear arsenal at his fingertips is calling for dangerous weapons to be taken out of the hands of the mentally unstable. “Listen, folks, this shouldn’t be difficult,” said the yammering old geriatric to a duck in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting…

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Give peace a chance? It’s entirely up to us!

Most folks are too busy and simply would not understand what I’m about to say. But you’re aware, you’re concerned about our future, and you hate war. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be on this website, which is 110% about stopping the war machine and throwing the warmongers out of power. We…

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U.S. State Department Checklist: Starting A War With Russia

The U.S. is making great headway at starting a war with Russia. This excellent work is the product of solid planning, making sure the public has no idea what’s really going on, sparing no expense or resource in demonizing Russia and slandering Putin, and keeping the propaganda machine running in…

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