The Idea of a Clean and Efficient War is a Dangerous Lie
There is dominant propaganda that seems to suggest war can be conducted according to a set of acceptable, standardized, and abstract rules. It can’t.
There is dominant propaganda that seems to suggest war can be conducted according to a set of acceptable, standardized, and abstract rules. It can’t.
In 1954 I attended Queens College during the years before Senator Joseph McCarthy finally met his comeuppance at the Army-McCarthy hearings after terrorizing Americans for years with accusations because of their political affiliations.
As scholars of nonviolent resistance, we see four key ways Ukrainians can organize and expand the civil resistance that’s already happening.
Ever since Joe Biden ended his speech in Poland on Saturday night by making one of the most dangerous statements ever uttered by a U.S. president in the nuclear age, efforts to clean up after him have been profuse.
Our insatiable war economy is making all of us less safe—and the more we come to economically depend on it, the harder it is to transition away from it. But it can be done.
If you find yourself in a room, zoom, plaza, or planet in which only more war is considered a sane policy, check quickly for two things.
How does civil resistance work and what can it achieve? This panel discussed how civilians are using strategic civil resistance to diminish the power and impact of the Russian military.
“With every war and every conflict, Raytheon’s profits multiply,” said one of the activists.
As the Ukraine war fills our screens and the risk of a war provoked with China rises, Australia seems automatically joined at the hip to US wars. A reform to the war powers law could be the only way to secure into the hands of the representatives of the Australian people the right to head that off.