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Defending the Weelaunee Forest
My creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force. It has no room for cowardice or even weakness. There is hope for a violent man to be some day non-violent, but there is none for a coward. I have, therefore, said more than once….that, if we do not know how to defend ourselves, our women […]
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The Realities of the International Power Struggle
Events continue to unfold at a quickening pace. Facing an alarming escalation in tensions around the world, we asked Michael T. Klare for his current thoughts. Michael Klare is a Five Colleges professor of Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts; defense correspondent of The Nation magazine; and author of The […]
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Creating Culture on the Fly
A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life, by Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein, is an ambitious work — like The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow — building on the radical anthropology of prehistoric man, and Graham Hancock’s Netflix series […]
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The US Should be ASHAMED of What They’re Doing in Syria
The House of Representatives voted not to end the U.S. occupation of Syria on Wednesday. This is disappointing but not surprising. Although all is not lost, 103 leaders voted for it with 56 Democrats joining 47 Republicans to vote in favor of the bill, showing that there is at least some appetite for peace. Opponents […]
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Battling Cancel Culture at Adelaide Writers’ Week
Writing festivals are often tired, stilted affairs, but the 38th Adelaide Writers’ Week did not promise to be that run-of-the-mill gathering of yawn-inducing, life draining sessions. For one thing, social media vultures and public relations experts, awaiting the next freely explosive remark or unguarded comment, were at hand to stir the pot and exhort cancel […]
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Total Worldwide Disarmament: Security Must Be for All Countries
Read Parts 1, 2, and 3. A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet. One of the great revelations of the age of space exploration is the image of the earth finite and lonely, somehow […]
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Li Keqiang’s Report at the Two Sessions
This week’s News on China in 2 minutes. • Li Keqiang’s report at the Two Sessions • US sanctioned companies at the Two Sessions • Douyin contests the e-commerce market • Chinese diplomats on social networks The post Li Keqiang’s Report at the Two Sessions first appeared on Dissident Voice.
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Henry Kissinger, AWOL Soldiers, VD & the “Good” War
Henry Kissinger as he launched his long and murderous career To believe and perpetrate the “Good War” and “Greatest Generation” myths, we must ignore many sordid realities. I’ve written about some of them here, here, and here (and several other posts). This time, I’ll focus on the memory-holed topic of AWOL American soldiers running wild […]
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