Talk World Radio: Ned Dobos on Reasons Not to Keep a Standing Military
This week on Talk World Radio, we’re talking about whether it’s good or bad for a country to have a permanent military.
This week on Talk World Radio, we’re talking about whether it’s good or bad for a country to have a permanent military.
These lessons are popular, logical — even unquestionable truth in many minds — and catastrophically and demonstrably wrong.
Like policing, no amount of funding will ever be enough for the war hawks.
Interview conducted by International Peace Bureau’s Reiner Braun with Oleg Bodrov and Yurii Sheliazhenko on April 5, 2022.
David Swanson of World BEYOND War reveals the workings of the military- industrial complex.
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.
Talk in Montenegro, as elsewhere, is much more NATO-friendly now. The Montenegrin government is intent on creating its international ground for training for more wars.
The war in Ukraine has placed U.S. and NATO policy toward Russia under a spotlight, highlighting how the United States and its allies have expanded NATO right up to Russia’s borders, backed a coup and now a proxy war in Ukraine, imposed waves of economic sanctions, and launched a debilitating trillion-dollar arms race