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by Kathy Kelly | June 16, 2017. On June 15, 2017, the New York Times reported that the government of Saudi Arabia aims to ease

By Bruce K. Gagnon | June 14, 2017 Reposted June 15, 2017 from The Times Record. I am pro-union and my first job after the

By Lisa Barrington and Ellen Francis | June 14 2017 Reposted June 15, 2017 from Reuters. BEIRUT Human Rights Watch expressed concern on Wednesday about the

By Stephanie Nebehay | GENEVA | June 14, 2017 Reposted June 15, 2017 from Reuters. GENEVA Intensified coalition air strikes supporting an assault by U.S.-backed

Lisa Ling is one of the U.S. drone whistleblowers profiled in the terrific movie National Bird. Ling is a former technical sergeant on drone surveillance

Opposition to Military Spending Resolution Resolution Number: 59 Sponsored by: The Honorable Svante L. Myrick, Mayor of Ithaca WHEREAS, President Trump has proposed to move

In the eyes of many around the world, diplomacy has taken a back seat to military operations in U.S. foreign policy. The drone program is

Wisconsin National Guard Unit Trains Soldiers to Operate RQ-7 Shadow Drones for “Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Target Acquisition” in Violation of Law, Claim Protesters By Brian

Long-range plan calls for a boost in spending and a larger contingent of regular and reservist troops By Murray Brewster | Jun 07, 2017. Reposted June

By Anna Fifield | June 7. Reposted June 7, 2017 from The Washington Post. A South Korean protester sits next to a poster with an

By The Liberal Agenda  |  June 5, 2017. Reposted June 7, 2017 from The Daily Blog. On Sunday 11 June at 12.00 midday in Auckland

By M. Flowers | June 6, 2017, Reposted June 6, 2017 from Clearing the Fog Radio. The United States is now in its 17th year

By David Swanson | June 5 2017 Reposted June 5, 2017 from Let’s Try Democracy. The new movie, War Machine, on Netflix starring Brad Pitt

Spanish voters turned against the incumbent conservative party after the 2004 Madrid bombings. By Sam Husseini, June 5, 2017 Reposted June 5, 2017 from The

By Norman Solomon | June 5, 2017. The Trump administration has already done enormous harm to the United States and the planet. Along the way,

By Kent Drummond Shifferd These are self-evident truths: That all humans are a single family living on a fragile and endangered planet whose life support

By Joanne Laurier , May 30, 2017. Reposted June 3, 2017 from World Socialist Website. Written and directed by David Michôd The Netflix satire War

By David Swanson, June 3, 2017. Reposted June 3, 2017 from Let’s Try Democracy. John Kiriakou’s Doing Time Like a Spy: How the CIA Taught

Please join this important conference call to help prevent a further humanitarian disaster from happening in Yemen and stop the U.S. from selling arms to

By John Stanton | June 1, 2017. Reposted June 1, 2017 from The Smirking Chimp. “US CENTCOM commanders announced today that they intend to maintain

By Rick Sterling | May 30, 2017 . Reposted May 31, 2017 from: Dissident Voice. Introduction For over two weeks this May, a delegation of

Remarks at Lincoln Memorial, May 30, 2017 By David Swanson, Let’s Try Democracy.   Washington, D.C., and much of the rest of the United States,

By Frida Berrigan | May 30, 2017, Waging Nonviolence. When I was a young teenager, I would venture down to the basement where my father

by Jesse Johnson, The Japan Times. A pair of U.S. B-1B strategic bombers conduct joint drills with Air Self-Defense Force F-15s in airspace over the

https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-charlotte-dennett-on-origins-of-us-obsession-with-middle-east. Charlotte Dennett is an attorney, author, and investigative journalist. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, she became a roving correspondent for The Middle East Sketch in

By Gar Smith Top Russian officials are concerned that a bill passed by the US Congress will do more than increase sanctions on North Korea.