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Frida Berrigan: We are suffering from ‘militarism abuse disorder’

With symptoms that include the endangerment of a safe and healthy future, it’s time we kick the habit of military dependency. By Frida Berrigan This article was originally published by TomDispatch. My name is Frida and my community is military dependent. (I…

The Red Scare

(IDN) — 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 of disloyal communists, waving lists of blacklisted citizens, threatening their…

Militarism and antimilitarism

By Pierre Jasmin*, translation by Michel Duguay** Summary Oil colonialism is dragging Russia and NATO member countries into Syrian and other wars. The military-industrial-media-academic-humanitarian complex imposes its (outlaw) iron law, to which the majority of Western countries comply by their…

Military Bases Never Go Unused

By David Swanson – World BEYOND War If, like me, you have the unfortunate habit of pointing out the dishonesty of the cases made for various wars, and you begin to persuade people that the wars are not actually for…

The Silver Bullet to Stop the Corporate State Pillage

by Lee Camp1 originally posted on Truthdig This column is based on a monologue Lee Camp wrote and performed on his TV show “Redacted Tonight”   Every year a certain number of our soldiers decide they’d rather not be involved…

Trump Has Been Broken by the Military/Security Complex

by Paul Craig Roberts, Dec 9, 2018  In order to protect himself from the military/security complex, President Trump has abandoned his intention of normalizing relations with Russia. Just as the neoconservative ideology needs US hegemony, the military/security complex needs an…

Know Your Stuff: The Terrorism Industry – Video with Swiss Historian Dr. Daniele Ganser

In this educational video with Swiss historian Dr. Daniele Ganser, who specializes in post-World War ll contemporary history and International Politics, we talk about the meaning of the term “War on Terror” (also known as Global War on Terrorism) and…

The U.S., Trump and the Deep State

By John Scales Avery In his book, “The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government”, Mike Lofgren called attention to the fact that much of the real power in Washington is not controlled…

US military spending: The Elephant in the Room

By David Andersson. I was invited to speak recently on a panel hosted by Pressenza at the DW Media Forum in Bonn, Germany on The Arms industry and Ethics. In the process of developing my presentation and compiling data on…

Neo-liberalism at Work

Anne Kass When she had just retired after being a judge in a Family Court for 18 years, the Albuquerque Rotary Club invited her to give a speech which words are still very accurate: “Thank you for inviting me today.…

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