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The Peacewheel
I grew up a child of the 1950s-60s. This generation began to question the validity of war as a problem solving tool. We were exposed in media, that an anti-war sentiment was a matter of great importance, especially through music. Society at large had evolved into recognizing the futility of war in a nuclear age.…
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Does there exist a narco empire? What about the revelations of the Church Committee during Iran Contra?
Today, transnational criminal organizations operate with immense power and influence, though they are not a single, unified “narco empire”. Allegations of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) involvement in drug trafficking related to the Iran-Contra affair were investigated by congressional committees and the agency’s own inspector general, finding that some officials looked the other way on Contra…
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The US Advances Its Dystopian Plan to Destroy China
Megan Russell | July 31, 2025 | Common Dreams Imagine: It’s the summer of 2025, and the United States has been surrounded by foreign military bases. The bases have been built by some antagonistic country on the other side of the world that drones on about the inevitability of war. Leaders of the nation pump…
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The Occupation Begins in LA and DC
The first stages of the occupation are unfolding in LA and DC. The return of the Redcoats for our “own sake.” The arming of the National Guard in DC has begun. Kary Love | Aug 27, 2025 | Listen The US invaded Iraq and Afghanistan as illegally as Putin invaded Ukraine, a bad place to…
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As apologists for Israel, Democratic leaders in Congress and at the DNC are doing major damage to the party’s prospects for next year’s midterm elections or defeating the Republican ticket in 2028.
By Norman Solomon This week will go down in history as a time when the governing body of the Democratic Party had a chance to oppose the U.S. government’s arming of Israel. But with the first Democratic National Committee meeting in seven months getting underway on Monday, the DNC’s leadership is determined to derail a resolution calling for…
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Why were the Philistines against the Canaanites?
The relationship between the Philistines and the Canaanites was multifaceted, encompassing both conflict and a degree of cultural exchange. While not always outright enemies, their interactions were often marked byrivalry and a struggle for dominance in the region of Canaan. Here’s a breakdown of the key factors contributing to their complex relationship: It’s important to…
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Fascism shattered Europe a century ago — and historians hear echoes today in the U.S.
After the mass death and destruction of World War I, with their economies shredded by inflation and unemployment, Italy and Germany turned from democracy to dictatorships. UC Berkeley scholars see troubling parallels in contemporary American democracy. September 9, 2024 It was a time of historic change, and society was buckling under the stress. There had…
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The Trump Administration Wants to Turn US Cities Into Occupied Territory
Opinion: The logic is imperial, and familiar. Invent an enemy. Inflate the threat. Justify the war. Except this time, the war zone is your own backyard. Jesse Mackinnon | Aug 07, 2025 | Common Dreams By any rational measure, the Trump administration’s internal Department of Homeland Security memo—obtained by The New Republic— reads less like a briefing…
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Seize and Resist
The global supply chain is up for grabs Thea Riofrancos | November 2020 Globalization is under attack from all quarters. It’s hard to pinpoint when the discord began: the concept, and the process it grasps, is nearly coterminous with the contention swirling around it. January 1, 1994, the day the North American Free Trade Agreement went…
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Micro-Militarism and Decline of Democracy
June 13, 2018 | Alfred W. McCoy | The Progressive After seventy years at the apex of global power, the most powerful empire in world history is beginning a protracted, painful decline. This decline might be a unique event for the United States, but from a world historical perspective these imperial transitions have happened often.…