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President Donald Trump Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Secretary of Defense James Mattis H.R. McMaster, National Security Council April 26, 2017 Dear President Trump: We

By Mel Gurtov, LA Progressive. Three opinion pieces on US policy toward North Korea have appeared in the New York Times in the past week.  They deserve

This passed, at town meeting on March 15, by a 73-45 vote. WARRANT ARTICLE PETITION WHEREAS, the United States government spends over $2,000,000 per hour

On “Speaking Truth to Empire” on KFCF 88.1 Free Speech Radio for Central California, Dan Yaseen interviews Kathy Kelly, a peace and justice activist and

Billy Kobin, The Daily Northwestern. Aldermen unanimously passed a resolution Monday urging the U.S. Congress to oppose President Donald Trump’s budget plan, which increases military

Five Children Among Slain in Attack Outside Tabqa by Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com. US officials have made much of Kurdish YPG forces attacking the town of

https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-deirdre-enright-on-freeing-innocent-people-from-prison Deirdre Enright is director of investigation for the University of Virginia Law School’s Innocence Project Clinic. Enright previously worked at the Virginia Capital Representation

Oxfam International. April 24, 2017 More money is urgently needed to ease the humanitarian suffering in Yemen but aid alone is no substitute for reviving

#4 Seeing is Believing But Believing Doesn’t Make it True By Greg Hunter. Do you notice anything suspicious about the IRA “terrorists’ own footage” and

By Andrew Buncombe, Independent. The Allied Powers were aware of the scale of the Jewish Holocaust two-and-a-half years earlier than is generally assumed, and had

By John Delury, The Washington Post. President Trump’s missile strike on Syria won plaudits from commentators on the left and right, with some of the

By James Pearson and Ju-min Park | Reuters. The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) transits the Sunda Strait April 15, 2017. U.S. Navy

By David Swanson Remarks in Burlington, Vermont, April 22, 2017 Thank you all for inviting me. There is no place I’d rather be on earth

By David Swanson, Let’s Try Democracy. James Q. Whitman’s new book is called Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race

Oliver Stone, Facebook Page. “So It Goes” I confess I really had hopes for some conscience from Trump about America’s wars, but I was wrong

Charlottesville City Council voted 3-2 on Monday to sell to the highest bidder the Robert E. Lee statue that has been the subject of so

As tens of millions of people within the United States mobilize to strike and to march from Earth Day through May Day, over the days

By Patrick T. Hiller. During further escalation of tensions between the United States and North Korea, pundits and other experts are trying to figure out

By Norman Solomon After Hillary Clinton’s devastating loss nearly six months ago, her most powerful Democratic allies feared losing control of the party. Efforts to

By Elana Knopp, Union News Daily. UNION COUNTY, NJ — New Jersey Peace Action, one of the nation’s oldest grassroots disarmament organizations, said plans are in

By Robert C. Koehler, Common Wonders. Sometimes our tame and compliant media upchucks a piece of truth. For instance: “American officials had predicted that the

By Jacob Hornberger, Media With Conscience. The year 1989 brought an unexpected shock to the U.S. national-security establishment. The Soviet Union suddenly and unexpectedly tore

By Jacob Hornberger, Media with Conscience. Given that we all have been born and raised under the type of governmental structure known as a “national