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August 17, 2017 Charlottesville!!!! We spend our hour in solartopia with the great Peace activist David Swanson talking to us from the belly of the

By David Swanson, August 24, 2017, Let’s Try Democracy. Washington, D.C., needs a three-dimensional, sculptural Guernica dedicated to and with explanatory information about the victims

When Russia and Syria killed civilians in driving Al Qaeda forces out of Aleppo, U.S. officials and media shouted “war crimes.” But the U.S.-led bombardment

By David Swanson, August 23, 2017, FireDonaldTrump.org. Several years back, I led a team of authors drafting articles of impeachment against then-President George W. Bush

By Karl Mathiesen, August 22, 2017, Climate Home. De Brum, who witnessed the destructive power of nuclear weapons as a child, won justice for his

By David Swanson, August 19, 2017, Let’s Try Democracy. Under the new policy just announced in Charlottesville, Virginia, the city will be taking down all

The candidate who once warned America about Hillary Clinton’s hawkishness is turning into a war machine. By Jennifer Wilson, Micah Zenko, August 9, 2017, Foreign

By Sam Husseini, August 18, 2017. Many have focused on President Donald Trump’s statements on Charlottesville condemning the “violence” from “both sides”. Which is understandable,

“Ten percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and ten percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be

By David Swanson, August 17, 2017, Let’s Try Democracy. The people of Durham , N.C., have the right idea. Not only have they taken down

By Ajamu Baraka, August 16, 2017, Black Agenda Report. What is the character of racist right-wing politics today? Is it the crazed white supremacist who

By Lindsey German, August 16, 2017, Counterfire. It may be that we will look back on August 2017 as a month when the hot war

As a teenager I would just laugh at newsreels of Hitler and other fascists. I hope what happened next is not witnessed again by my

By David Swanson and Pat Elder, World Beyond War The Pentagon’s impact on the river on whose bank it sits is not simply the diffuse

By Adele Roof, August 15, 2017. As most everyone knows, white supremacists descended upon my city of Charlottesville, VA, this past weekend, and chaos, violence

Activists blockaded the West Coast nuclear submarine base that would likely carry out a nuclear strike against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea)

1. Let’s start with the obvious. Charlottesville, Virginia, and Charlotte, North Carolina, are actually two completely different places in the world. The flood of concern

August 9, 2017; Portland, OR Reports suggest that North Korea has advanced its nuclear ambitions with the production of a nuclear warhead designed to fit

By Lawrence S. Wittner, August 9, 2017. What kind of civilization have we developed when two mentally unstable national leaders, in an escalating confrontation with

By David Swanson, August 10, 2017, Let’s Try Democracy. I have mixed emotions about the fact that I’ll be missing the latest big fascism rally

by Brienne Kordis, August 10, 2017, Common Dreams. Government forces have been terrorizing the people of Awamiyah in Saudi Arabia’s eastern province of al-Qatif for

It’s time to resist! TOGETHER! Determined activists around the world have been resisting occupation, militarism, and foreign military bases on their lands for decades. These

By Robert C. Koehler, August 9th, 2017, Common Wonders. Donald Trump stands cluelessly at the edge of history, exemplifying everything wrong with the past, oh,