Tag: War

  • The Munich “Security” Conference (MSC) Has Become a €20‑Million Militarist Echo Chamber

    The MSC’s closed groupthink militarism offers only one prescription — more weapons — even as record military expenditures, squeezed from taxpayers in economic crisis, destroy diplomacy and drive escalation and the highest war risks in decades. From Dialogue Forum to Militarised Ritual For decades, the Munich Security Conference (MSC) – which opened today and runs […]

  • Are Republicans and Democrats the Same?

    Early in my progressive activist/organizer life, begun in 1968, I was a big believer in the need for a “third party.” A primary reason was the prosecution of the Vietnam War by Democratic President Lyndon Johnson. As I studied in college in 1967 about the history of that war, I learned that the USA had […]

  • Bibi to Don: You Can’t Use Your Nukes without Starting Armageddon. But We Can Use Ours.

    Twice in the last year, Israel and its Big Brother have started a war to crush Iran. Without success. But if at first you don’t succeed… So Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is still trying to sell the leader of the dwindling superpower on the idea of destroying Iran. Netanyahu is obsessed, because — in […]

  • How America Turns War into a National Sacrament

    A carpenter does not craft chairs only to hide them under a bed. A tailor does not sew garments just to store them away. So, then—does America manufacture military weapons and war machines only to keep them in the White House’s military depo ? No. They must be sold. And how? Through war. The more […]

  • If You Think Our Rulers Do Bad Things in Secret, Wait Til You See What They Do out in the Open

    They launched a live-streamed genocide in full view of the entire world. They’re openly targeting civilian populations with siege warfare in Iran and Cuba in full view of the entire world. They openly kidnapped the president of a sovereign nation in full view of the entire world. They deliberately provoked a horrific and dangerous proxy war in Ukraine in full view of the […]

  • Our blindness to whiteness

    During the COVID pandemic, I published a book titled The White-West: A Look in the Mirror. At the time, I did not imagine that only a few years later the dynamics I described would become so stark, so violent, and so openly visible. Today, many struggle to understand what is happening in the United States—and […]

  • Why Not Another Half Trillion Dollars for War?

    Why Not Another Half Trillion Dollars for War?

    Normally, when one develops all the symptoms of a disease, the response ought not to be exacerbating the disease, but seeking to cure it. Approaches to healthcare in the United States have gone off the rails, of course, but think about the disease of military spending. What are some of the symptoms we’ve suffered recently? […]

  • Veterans’ Billboards to Troops: Refuse Illegal Orders to Kill

    Veterans’ Billboards to Troops: Refuse Illegal Orders to Kill

    Rory Fanning at the Great Lakes IL, billboard One of the VFP billboards. See them all here. In response to the serial crimes ordered by the Trump administration in Minneapolis, Gaza and Venezuela, a national veteran’s organization is sponsoring billboards urging active duty and National Guard troops to “follow the law and their conscience” and refuse illegal orders. In […]

  • ICE Is at War with the United States

    ICE Is at War with the United States

    The U.S. government has the world’s most expensive military waging wars around the world. It also now has a military aimed at the United States itself. ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) has a budget larger than any military in the world except 12. It has military weaponry and vehicles. It has military training from the […]

  • Diplomacy, Law, and Nonviolent Power

    Read Part 1. This is the second of four TFF-created idea portfolios designed to curb the global reach of the United States and, in both the short and long term, help catalyse a worldwide nonviolent resistance to what many observers describe as the Trump administration’s uniquely confrontational, destructive and world-threatening policies. These portfolios outline what […]

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