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The Peace Report
March 14, 2019
Will Griffin: How the U.S. Military Shaped Global Capitalism
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David Swanson: If Everybody Matters, War Can Never Be Justified At All
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by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy, Mar. 10, 2019
March 12, 2019
Student Peace Awards of Fairfax County on Mar 12, 2019
David Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is director of World BEYOND War and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org. The U.S. Peace Memorial Foundation awarded him their 2018 Peace Prize, and he has been nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Will Griffin and Matthew Hoh: Fighting the Unwinnable War in Afghanistan, Parts 1-3
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With Will Griffin
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The Peace Report
March 8, 2019
“For all these costs, particularly the bloody expenditure of lives, the war remains the same as it was in 2009: neither side can win and neither side will surrender. US proclamations of military success and “hard won gains” are specious and are just one of the ever present lies of war.” — Matthew Hoh
Netanyahu Indicted on Corruption Charges, UN Accuses Israel of War Crimes + Wilkerson: Has the US Not Learned the Lessons of Regime Change?
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March 4, 2019
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Afshin Rattansi goes over the indictment of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on corruption charges and the UN accusing Israel of committing war crimes.
Larry Wilkerson: Trump and Netanyahu Scandals a Very Dangerous Moment
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TheRealNews on Mar 3, 2019
Desperate men do desperate things; two leaders facing corruption charges may more aggressively push their Iran regime change agenda – Larry Wilkerson joins Paul Jay
Chris Hedges: Origins of USA Gun Rights
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RT America on Mar 2, 2019
In the USA, right-wing groups such as the National Rifle Association interpret the Second Amendment of the US Constitution as permitting any individual to own weapons. In this week’s episode of On Contact, historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortriz, in her new book Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment, and in her conversation with Chris Hedges, argues the amendment has more to do with white supremacy and the subjugation of Indigenous peoples, African-Americans and immigrants than the individual right to have a gun.
Chris Hedges and Scott Ritter: The Dismantling of the Iran Nuclear Deal
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RT America on Feb 16, 2019
The Iran nuclear deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), between China, France, Russia, UK and USA, represented a crowning moment of international diplomacy and stopped the US and its allies from going to war with Iran. Donald Trump’s decision to break the deal threatens to return the world to that precipice. Scott Ritter, a former Marine intelligence officer and UN weapons inspector in Iraq discusses the implications of the lost deal with On Contact host and journalist, Chris Hedges.
Will Griffin: Militarism is Capitalism
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The Peace Report
February 13, 2019
“[Modern militarism] wants neither more nor less than the squaring of the circle; it arms the people against the people itself; it is insolent enough to force the workers … to become oppressors, enemies and murderers of their own class comrades and friends, of their parents, brothers, sisters and children, murderers of their own past and future. It wants to be at the same time democratic and despotic, enlightened and machine-like, at the same time to serve the nation and to be its enemy.” — Karl Liebknecht
David Swanson: US Middle East Plan + Trump’s Syria Pullout Aimed at Aggressing Iran by Finian Cunningham
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Let’s Try Democracy, Feb. 8, 2019
February 12, 2019
Debate: US Middle East Plan
PressTV on Feb 7, 2019
The U.S. President Donald Trump has defended his decision to withdraw troops from Syria, claiming that the U.S.-led coalition succeeded in taking nearly all territories held by Daesh terrorists. Trump, however; added that the troops would be shifted to Iraq and the U.S. would maintain its military presence there to watch Iran.
Chris Hedges: Daniel Berrigan’s Play: The Trial of the Cantonsville Nine
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RT America on Jan 19, 2019
The nature and cost of civil disobedience is explored in the play “The Trial of the Cantonsville Nine,” written by the Catholic priest Dan Berrigan.
Top 10 Reasons NOT to Love NATO by David Swanson
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by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy
January 15, 2019
The New York Times loves NATO, but should you?
Judging by comments in social media and the real world, millions of people in the United States have gone from having little or no opinion on NATO, or from opposing NATO as the world’s biggest military force responsible for disastrous wars in places like Afghanistan (for Democrats) or Libya (for Republicans), to believing NATO to be a tremendous force for good in the world.
Abby Martin: Trump Expanding The Empire + Trump’s Syria Deception
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Empire Files on Jan 11, 2019
In the first installment of this multi-part series, Trump Expanding the Empire, Abby Martin debunks the notion that Trump is an anti-interventionist president, outlining his first two years of aggressive foreign policy that has expanded US wars and occupations. From the biggest military budget in history, to removing its restrictions to “bomb the hell out of” Iraq and Syria, to ramping-up brutal economic sanctions, to becoming America’s ‘Arms Salesman-In-Chief.’
Christmas 1914: When Rank and File Imposed Truce During Imperialist War by Henry Hagins + Balls To War
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by Henry Hagins
Workers World, Dec. 16, 2014
Originally published Dec. 24, 2015
December 23, 2018
The “Christmas Truce of 1914” was a short-lived, unofficial lull in combat between two antagonistic rival forces, determined to exercise military, political and economic supremacy over each other in Europe and in the colonized world, to which these imperial powers lay arrogant false claim. One of the bloodiest episodes in human history, World War I was largely played out on the battle-scarred lands of France and Belgium, starting in August of 1914.
Truth in Recruiting
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Antiwar Comedy Shorts on Dec 8, 2017
A poster at an Army recruiting office reveals: “You might die, or get your arms or legs blown off.” From a series of 8 antiwar comedy shorts shot in 2016 and 2017. Two of these did the festival circuit, winning 11 awards and being selected in 79 festivals.
What Should We Do Instead Of Bombing Yemen? Not Bomb Yemen! by David Swanson
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by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy
December 13, 2018
WorldBeyondWar.org on Dec 13, 2018
David Swanson in Albuquerque NM December 12, 2018. Video by Brendon Jaramillo.
