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by Finian Cunningham
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Ireland
November 14, 2022
Finian Cunningham on Nov 13, 2022
In a wide-ranging interview with Finian Cunningham, former US military intelligence analyst Scott Ritter calls out a complex of American-made problems threatening world peace.
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by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy, Nov. 5, 2022
November 6, 2022
After the U.S. has spent months privately telling Ukraine not to negotiate peace and publicly telling Ukraine to help itself to an all-you-can-eat weapons buffet with breaks to pose for heroic portraits, and not long at all after telling Congress Members to beat themselves with whips for suggesting negotiating peace, the White House has privately asked Ukraine to pretend to be open to peace negotiations because it looks bad to have Russia willing (or at least saying it’s willing) to discuss peace and Ukraine not saying that. Or, in the words of the Bezos Post:
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with Chris Hedges
TheRealNews on Nov 4, 2022
No one, including the most bullish supporters of Ukraine, expect the nation’s war with Russia to end soon. The fighting has been reduced to artillery duels across hundreds of miles of front lines and creeping advances and retreats.
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by Robert C. Koehler
Guest Writer, Dandelion Salad
October 30, 2022
It’s fascinating how “interests” interfere with survival. We prepare for — and, of course, wage — war with an overwhelming percentage of our resources (to the benefit of the profiteers), but we plead poverty when it comes to helping people or, you know, saving the planet.
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by Brad Wolf
Guest Writer, Dandelion Salad
October 26, 2022
“Mihail Kogălniceanu, Romania — The U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division has been deployed to Europe for the first time in almost 80 years amid soaring tension between Russia and the American-led NATO military alliance. The light infantry unit, nicknamed the “Screaming Eagles,” is trained to deploy on any battlefield in the world within hours, ready to fight.” – CBS News, October 21, 2022.
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by Robert C. Koehler
Guest Writer, Dandelion Salad
October 22, 2022
“When militarism is addressed as a psychosocial disease, the absurd irrationality of its symptoms is clearly exposed.”
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by Robert C. Koehler
Guest Writer, Dandelion Salad
October 15, 2022
The game may be almost over.
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies put it this way:
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by Rainer Shea
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Rainer Shea’s Newsletter
October 12, 2022
The unprecedented nuclear threat that humanity faces is a direct consequence of our society’s lack of access to the truths which outlets like Wikileaks have revealed about U.S. imperialism. These are the truths that Julian Assange, the political prisoner who’s now in danger of being extradited to the U.S. because of his facilitating these revelations, has used to come towards a deep analysis on the forces which shape our world.
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by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy, Oct. 3, 2022
October 4, 2022
Chris Hedges’ latest book, The Greatest Evil Is War, is a terrific title and even better text. It doesn’t actually argue a case for war being a greater evil than other evils, but it sure does present evidence that war is tremendously evil. And I think in this moment of nuclear weapons threats, we can consider the case pre-established.
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by Robert C. Koehler
Guest Writer, Dandelion Salad
October 2, 2022
What does surrender look like in the world of geopolitics? To my mind, this gets pretty close:
“President Biden’s national security adviser said on Sunday that the United States had warned Russia that there would be ‘catastrophic consequences’ for the country if Moscow used nuclear weapons in its increasing desperation to hold on to territory in Ukraine.”
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by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy, Sept. 27, 2022
October 1, 2022
What would we do in a world lacking police, prisons, surveillance, borders, wars, nuclear weapons, and capitalism? Well, we might survive. We might sustain life on this little blue dot a little longer. That — in contrast to the status quo — ought to be sufficient. We might, in addition, do a lot more than sustain life. We might transform the lives of billions of people including each person reading these words. We might have lives with less fear and worry, more joy and accomplishment, more control and cooperation.
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by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy, Sept. 8, 2022
September 10, 2022
Friendly advice to my brothers and sisters in Finland and Sweden.
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by John Pilger
John Pilger, Sept. 8, 2022
September 9, 2022
In an address to the Trondheim World Festival in Norway, John Pilger charts the history of power propaganda and describes how it appropriates journalism in a ‘profound imperialism’ and is likely to entrap us all, if we allow it.
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by Bruce Gagnon
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Organizing Notes, Aug. 4, 2022
August 13, 2022
WorldBeyondWar.org on Aug 3, 2022
Washington has called Russia and China ‘existential threats’ to the US. NATO is expanding up to Russia’s border and the war in Ukraine is escalating as the US-UK-NATO continue to ship weapons to Kiev. At the same time NATO is expanding into the Asia-Pacific region closing the military circle around Beijing.
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by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy
August 9, 2022
WorldBeyondWar.org on Aug 8, 2022
A webinar hosted by World BEYOND War on August 8, 2022, with Todd Pierce and David Swanson moderating.
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