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The Dangerous Assumption that Violence Keeps Us Safe
A romanticized belief in violence renders people irrational to the point of hurting ourselves, over and over again.
A romanticized belief in violence renders people irrational to the point of hurting ourselves, over and over again.
Throughout history, people facing occupation have tapped into the power of nonviolent struggle to thwart their invaders.
We demand true discussion, dialogue, diplomacy on steroids instead of war-mongering to save the lives of the innocent civilians that are at stake around the world.
Have yall learned absolutely nothing? The U.S. government’s internal memos said that the only way to get Iraq to use its weapons if it even had any would be to attack it.
To call Looking For the Good War a critique of the idea of the good war requires defining “good,” not as necessary or justified (which ought to be all one could hope — though one would be wrong — for mass murder), but as beautiful and wonderful and marvelous and superhuman.
Celebrate Pearl Harbor Day right!
Twenty years ago, Rep. Barbara Lee was the only member of Congress to vote against war in the immediate aftermath of the devastating 9/11 attacks that killed about 3,000 people.
It’s been a dream of peace-loving people everywhere for over 20 years now for a U.S. government to end a war and to speak in support of having done so.
Along with other nations, the United States should begin talking about how to put militarism behind it.