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Monday, September 28, 2015
The UN: Pretending to Oppose War for 70 Years The United Nation's 17 Sustainable Development Goals don't just ignore the fact that development isn't sustainable; they revel in it. One of the goals is spreading energy use. Another is economic growth. Another is preparation for climate chaos (not preventing it, but dealing with it). And how does the United Nations deal with problems? Generally through wars and sanctions.
Monday, September 28, 2015The UN: Pretending to Oppose War for 70 Years The United Nation's 17 Sustainable Development Goals don't just ignore the fact that development isn't sustainable; they revel in it. One of the goals is spreading energy use. Another is economic growth. Another is preparation for climate chaos (not preventing it, but dealing with it). And how does the United Nations deal with problems? Generally through wars and sanctions.
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Sunday, February 17, 2013
Pseudo-Protests and Serious Climate Crisis "You elected this president. You reelected this president. . . . Stop being chumps!" --Van Jones
Sunday, February 17, 2013Pseudo-Protests and Serious Climate Crisis "You elected this president. You reelected this president. . . . Stop being chumps!" --Van Jones
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Monday, May 9, 2011
This World and the World Without War The New York Times published an op-ed on May 7th by a professor here in Charlottesville, Va., arguing that celebrating the killing of Osama bin Laden is actually a good thing, because in so celebrating we are building solidarity with those we view as part of our exclusive group. Implicit in this argument is that we can do no better.
Monday, May 9, 2011This World and the World Without War The New York Times published an op-ed on May 7th by a professor here in Charlottesville, Va., arguing that celebrating the killing of Osama bin Laden is actually a good thing, because in so celebrating we are building solidarity with those we view as part of our exclusive group. Implicit in this argument is that we can do no better.
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Tuesday, September 12, 2017
The Gathering to Abolish War Sixteen years of endless wars, endless spending, endless killing, endless dying, endless environmental destruction, endless erosion of our rights, endless suppression of activism, endless militarization of police, endless promotion of bigotry and hatred, endless generation of hatred and terrorism, endless threats of nuclear apocalypse. Can we make it end now?
Tuesday, September 12, 2017The Gathering to Abolish War Sixteen years of endless wars, endless spending, endless killing, endless dying, endless environmental destruction, endless erosion of our rights, endless suppression of activism, endless militarization of police, endless promotion of bigotry and hatred, endless generation of hatred and terrorism, endless threats of nuclear apocalypse. Can we make it end now?
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Only in America Can Blair Go Out in Public Blair has just been presented with a Liberty Medal at the Constitution Center by none other than Bill Clinton, as reward for Blair's . . . wait for it . . . "steadfast commitment to conflict resolution."
Tuesday, September 14, 2010Only in America Can Blair Go Out in Public Blair has just been presented with a Liberty Medal at the Constitution Center by none other than Bill Clinton, as reward for Blair's . . . wait for it . . . "steadfast commitment to conflict resolution."
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Monday, February 27, 2017
The Choice Trump's Budget Creates Trump proposes to increase U.S. military spending by $54 billion, and to take that $54 billion out of the other portions of the budget, including in particular, he says, foreign aid. If you can't find foreign aid on the chart, that's because it is a portion of that little dark green slice called International Affairs. To take $54 billion out of foreign aid, you would have to cut foreign aid by approximately 200%.
Monday, February 27, 2017The Choice Trump's Budget Creates Trump proposes to increase U.S. military spending by $54 billion, and to take that $54 billion out of the other portions of the budget, including in particular, he says, foreign aid. If you can't find foreign aid on the chart, that's because it is a portion of that little dark green slice called International Affairs. To take $54 billion out of foreign aid, you would have to cut foreign aid by approximately 200%.
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Monday, May 23, 2016
Let's Back All Moderates in Syria and the World I've come around in favor of backing all moderates. The question appeared to me for a long time as a difficult one. Should one give anti-aircraft weaponry, for example, to al Qaeda fighters in Syria in order to better combat ISIS (which could some day develop the airplane)?
Monday, May 23, 2016Let's Back All Moderates in Syria and the World I've come around in favor of backing all moderates. The question appeared to me for a long time as a difficult one. Should one give anti-aircraft weaponry, for example, to al Qaeda fighters in Syria in order to better combat ISIS (which could some day develop the airplane)?
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Wednesday, November 18, 2015
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.
Wednesday, November 18, 20155 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.
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Friday, June 15, 2018
Why Are the Poor Patriotic? We should be very grateful to Francesco Duina for his new book, Broke and Patriotic: Why Poor Americans Love Their Country. He begins with the following dilemma. The poor in the United States are in many ways worse off than in other wealthy countries, but they are more patriotic than are the poor in those other countries and even more patriotic than are wealthier people in their own country.
Friday, June 15, 2018Why Are the Poor Patriotic? We should be very grateful to Francesco Duina for his new book, Broke and Patriotic: Why Poor Americans Love Their Country. He begins with the following dilemma. The poor in the United States are in many ways worse off than in other wealthy countries, but they are more patriotic than are the poor in those other countries and even more patriotic than are wealthier people in their own country.
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Healthcare and Free Press: Two Human Rights We Lack Another name for "what's called a single-payer system" would be: healthcare as a human right, not a commodity to be purchased. Many humans have this right. They just aren't Americans.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009Healthcare and Free Press: Two Human Rights We Lack Another name for "what's called a single-payer system" would be: healthcare as a human right, not a commodity to be purchased. Many humans have this right. They just aren't Americans.
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Monday, April 30, 2012
Sibel Edmonds Finally Wins Sibel Edmonds' new book, "Classified Woman," is like an FBI file on the FBI, only without the incompetence.
Monday, April 30, 2012Sibel Edmonds Finally Wins Sibel Edmonds' new book, "Classified Woman," is like an FBI file on the FBI, only without the incompetence.
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Saturday, September 13, 2014
After New York: Rally for Peace and Climate in DC What, When, Where. You know why.
Saturday, September 13, 2014After New York: Rally for Peace and Climate in DC What, When, Where. You know why.
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Wednesday, September 2, 2015
10 Lessons of the Iran Deal By the latest count, the nuclear agreement with Iran has enough support in the U.S. Senate to survive. This, even more than stopping the missile strikes on Syria in 2013, may be as close as we come to public recognition of the prevention of a war (something that happens quite a bit but generally goes unrecognized and for which there are no national holidays). Here are 10 teachings for this teachable moment.
Wednesday, September 2, 201510 Lessons of the Iran Deal By the latest count, the nuclear agreement with Iran has enough support in the U.S. Senate to survive. This, even more than stopping the missile strikes on Syria in 2013, may be as close as we come to public recognition of the prevention of a war (something that happens quite a bit but generally goes unrecognized and for which there are no national holidays). Here are 10 teachings for this teachable moment.
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Wednesday, December 27, 2017
How It Could Finally Be Possible to Prosecute War as a Crime War is a crime. The International Criminal Court has just announced that it will finally treat it as a crime, sort-of, kind-of. But how can war's status as a crime effectively deter the world's leading war-maker from threatening and launching more wars, large and small? How can laws against war actually be put to use? How can the ICC's announcement be made into something more than a pretense?
Wednesday, December 27, 2017How It Could Finally Be Possible to Prosecute War as a Crime War is a crime. The International Criminal Court has just announced that it will finally treat it as a crime, sort-of, kind-of. But how can war's status as a crime effectively deter the world's leading war-maker from threatening and launching more wars, large and small? How can laws against war actually be put to use? How can the ICC's announcement be made into something more than a pretense?
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Sunday, October 16, 2016
Talk Nation Radio: Emily Johnston and Annette Klapstein on why they shut down pipelines Emily Johnston and Annette Klapstein face felony charges for having shut down fossil fuel pipelines.
Sunday, October 16, 2016Talk Nation Radio: Emily Johnston and Annette Klapstein on why they shut down pipelines Emily Johnston and Annette Klapstein face felony charges for having shut down fossil fuel pipelines.
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Monday, November 27, 2017
New York Times and Reaction to It Help Us See Where Nazis Come From "Imagine being so bad at drumming that you become a Nazi," someone tweeted in response to the recent and scandalous New York Times' article about an Ohio Nazi. "Or at painting," I replied.
Monday, November 27, 2017New York Times and Reaction to It Help Us See Where Nazis Come From "Imagine being so bad at drumming that you become a Nazi," someone tweeted in response to the recent and scandalous New York Times' article about an Ohio Nazi. "Or at painting," I replied.
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Sunday, January 19, 2020
How Do You Blow the Whistle on a Whole Society? How do major U.S. newspapers and television news programs refer to the murder of an Iranian general? Never with the word murder.
Sunday, January 19, 2020How Do You Blow the Whistle on a Whole Society? How do major U.S. newspapers and television news programs refer to the murder of an Iranian general? Never with the word murder.
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Friday, February 21, 2020
How Are We Going to Pay for Saving Trillions of Dollars? Enhanced Medicare for All that wild scheme that Michael Bloomberg calls "untried" because it's only been tested for decades in virtually every wealthy nation on earth would cost $450 billion a year less than the current U.S. system. In the usual propaganda terms (in which you multiply by ten and then if asked admit that you're talking about ten years) that's a savings of $4.5 trillion!
Friday, February 21, 2020How Are We Going to Pay for Saving Trillions of Dollars? Enhanced Medicare for All that wild scheme that Michael Bloomberg calls "untried" because it's only been tested for decades in virtually every wealthy nation on earth would cost $450 billion a year less than the current U.S. system. In the usual propaganda terms (in which you multiply by ten and then if asked admit that you're talking about ten years) that's a savings of $4.5 trillion!
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012
The Military Spending Cut Scare The fearmongering is on.
Tuesday, September 18, 2012The Military Spending Cut Scare The fearmongering is on.
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Monday, February 18, 2013
Hubris Isn't the Half of It As our government was making a fraudulent case to attack Iraq in 2002-2003, the MSNBC television network was doing everything it could to help, including booting Phil Donahue and Jeff Cohen off the air.
Monday, February 18, 2013Hubris Isn't the Half of It As our government was making a fraudulent case to attack Iraq in 2002-2003, the MSNBC television network was doing everything it could to help, including booting Phil Donahue and Jeff Cohen off the air.
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