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Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Letter to Europe from an American It's with a very heavy heart that I watch Europe imitate the militarism of the United States, moving massive resources from human and environmental needs to weapons, celebrating proposals from good liberal civic groups to steal money from Russia and dump it into more weapons, cutting deals to have the ingredients for more weapons dug out of your soil by a distant empire that routinely spits on your head...
Tuesday, March 11, 2025Letter to Europe from an American It's with a very heavy heart that I watch Europe imitate the militarism of the United States, moving massive resources from human and environmental needs to weapons, celebrating proposals from good liberal civic groups to steal money from Russia and dump it into more weapons, cutting deals to have the ingredients for more weapons dug out of your soil by a distant empire that routinely spits on your head...
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Monday, March 10, 2025
Trump Buyers' Remorse is Just a Miniature Model You voted for Trump and are being deported, or losing your job, or paying more for eggs. Now you're the subject of so-called journalism about your "buyer's remorse". This is an extremely weak version of the sort of transformation that is needed -- the sort of Saul-to-Paul awakening, forehead-slapping, I've-been-an-idiot, redemption-seeking metamorphosizing needed from millions of people, Trump voters and otherwise.
Monday, March 10, 2025Trump Buyers' Remorse is Just a Miniature Model You voted for Trump and are being deported, or losing your job, or paying more for eggs. Now you're the subject of so-called journalism about your "buyer's remorse". This is an extremely weak version of the sort of transformation that is needed -- the sort of Saul-to-Paul awakening, forehead-slapping, I've-been-an-idiot, redemption-seeking metamorphosizing needed from millions of people, Trump voters and otherwise.
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Sunday, March 9, 2025
The Five Excuses for Genocide On Monday I interviewed a member of the Executive Committee of AIPAC. I asked him how he could defend and promote apartheid and genocide. He was not a legal witness; I could not order him not to change the subject. Still, he provided pretty clear (if very weak) excuses for genocide, which I think can be broken up into five types.
Sunday, March 9, 2025The Five Excuses for Genocide On Monday I interviewed a member of the Executive Committee of AIPAC. I asked him how he could defend and promote apartheid and genocide. He was not a legal witness; I could not order him not to change the subject. Still, he provided pretty clear (if very weak) excuses for genocide, which I think can be broken up into five types.
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Saturday, February 22, 2025
Trump, Nukes, and Cartoons A president can demand that governments spend vastly more on wars and propose cutting war spending in half. The same skills that once made the holy Trinity both single and triple can make sense of this. The threats and demands are brilliant negotiating, or the proposed reductions are a brilliant distraction. But you cannot actually take enlarging and shrinking military spending at face value and proclaim them both right.
Saturday, February 22, 2025Trump, Nukes, and Cartoons A president can demand that governments spend vastly more on wars and propose cutting war spending in half. The same skills that once made the holy Trinity both single and triple can make sense of this. The threats and demands are brilliant negotiating, or the proposed reductions are a brilliant distraction. But you cannot actually take enlarging and shrinking military spending at face value and proclaim them both right.
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Saturday, February 15, 2025
Start a Lasting Peace in Ukraine Now We are heartened to learn that the U.S. government is communicating with the Russian government, and are only sorry that such a basic step seemingly required a presidential election, when a glance at the Doomsday Clock ought to have been sufficient.
Saturday, February 15, 2025Start a Lasting Peace in Ukraine Now We are heartened to learn that the U.S. government is communicating with the Russian government, and are only sorry that such a basic step seemingly required a presidential election, when a glance at the Doomsday Clock ought to have been sufficient.
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Saturday, February 15, 2025
What's Wrong With Nuclear Weaponry and Energy The nuclear energy and weapons industries rise or fall together. And they fall or we do.
Saturday, February 15, 2025What's Wrong With Nuclear Weaponry and Energy The nuclear energy and weapons industries rise or fall together. And they fall or we do.
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Friday, February 7, 2025
Bibi: The Making of a Genocidaire In the end, I have to say, they got Nixon on trivial nonsense, but they got him. If Netanyahu goes down for a box of Cuban cigars, and his replacement understands that part of the problem was genocide, I bet even the Cubans will celebrate.
Friday, February 7, 2025Bibi: The Making of a Genocidaire In the end, I have to say, they got Nixon on trivial nonsense, but they got him. If Netanyahu goes down for a box of Cuban cigars, and his replacement understands that part of the problem was genocide, I bet even the Cubans will celebrate.
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Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Listen Carefully to the Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat A remarkable film called Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat is up for a possible Oscar for best documentary this year.
Wednesday, February 5, 2025Listen Carefully to the Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat A remarkable film called Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat is up for a possible Oscar for best documentary this year.
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Friday, January 31, 2025
Free Cuba Remarks at the Sixth International Conference for World Balance in Havana, Cuba, Jan. 30, 2025
Friday, January 31, 2025Free Cuba Remarks at the Sixth International Conference for World Balance in Havana, Cuba, Jan. 30, 2025
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Thursday, January 23, 2025
The Nazi Salute Has U.S. Origins An imperial presidency, a cult of idiocracy, and a team of hateful oligarchs is the problem. A salute is just a symbol.
Thursday, January 23, 2025The Nazi Salute Has U.S. Origins An imperial presidency, a cult of idiocracy, and a team of hateful oligarchs is the problem. A salute is just a symbol.
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Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Another World Is Already Here I hope everyone in the world reads the new book Another World Is Possible: Lessons for America from Around the Globe by Natasha Hakimi Zapata. I think the lessons could be for anywhere on Earth. They are stories of what is possible for the United States (or in some cases a single state thereof) or most anywhere else. But they are also stories of what is already real in certain parts of the world.
Tuesday, January 21, 2025Another World Is Already Here I hope everyone in the world reads the new book Another World Is Possible: Lessons for America from Around the Globe by Natasha Hakimi Zapata. I think the lessons could be for anywhere on Earth. They are stories of what is possible for the United States (or in some cases a single state thereof) or most anywhere else. But they are also stories of what is already real in certain parts of the world.
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Sunday, January 19, 2025
Hegseth Is a Bad Joke Like the Republican Party whose senators will make Pete Hegseth the next U.S. Secretary of War, Hegseth is a bad joke. The Democratic minority in the horribly unrepresentative Senate is a joke you might hear at an amateur mic night.
Sunday, January 19, 2025Hegseth Is a Bad Joke Like the Republican Party whose senators will make Pete Hegseth the next U.S. Secretary of War, Hegseth is a bad joke. The Democratic minority in the horribly unrepresentative Senate is a joke you might hear at an amateur mic night.
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Friday, January 17, 2025
Why War Books Never Answer the Question Does slavery have a future? Cannibalism? Blood feuds? Patriarchy? Small pox? Capital punishment? Astrology? Maybe. Not yes. Only maybe. And that's all such books can and should say about war.
Friday, January 17, 2025Why War Books Never Answer the Question Does slavery have a future? Cannibalism? Blood feuds? Patriarchy? Small pox? Capital punishment? Astrology? Maybe. Not yes. Only maybe. And that's all such books can and should say about war.
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Friday, January 10, 2025
Blinken's Blinkered Vision has Spotted, of All Things, a Genocide The U.S. Secretary of State has taken a break from demanding more weapons shipments to fuel the genocide in Palestine, to announce that he has "recognized" a genocide in Sudan.
Friday, January 10, 2025Blinken's Blinkered Vision has Spotted, of All Things, a Genocide The U.S. Secretary of State has taken a break from demanding more weapons shipments to fuel the genocide in Palestine, to announce that he has "recognized" a genocide in Sudan.
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Saturday, January 4, 2025
The Military is the Extremism According to a headline in The Hill newspaper, which takes a position typical of U.S. corporate media, "New Year's attacks fuel fears of extremism in military." In other words, an institution openly dedicated to mass killing and destruction may have fallen victim to infiltration by "extremists." As if there could be something more extreme than a military.
Saturday, January 4, 2025The Military is the Extremism According to a headline in The Hill newspaper, which takes a position typical of U.S. corporate media, "New Year's attacks fuel fears of extremism in military." In other words, an institution openly dedicated to mass killing and destruction may have fallen victim to infiltration by "extremists." As if there could be something more extreme than a military.
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Tuesday, December 31, 2024
The Trump Five Percent When Donald Trump again warms the throne in Washington on Martin Luther King Day, each of the three evils that King worked to abolish will get a major boost: racism, extreme materialism, and militarism.
Tuesday, December 31, 2024The Trump Five Percent When Donald Trump again warms the throne in Washington on Martin Luther King Day, each of the three evils that King worked to abolish will get a major boost: racism, extreme materialism, and militarism.
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Friday, December 20, 2024
We Are One-Quarter Through War's Last Century There are clearly two ways in which this could be war's last century, and I'm betting we'll get either one or the other. In one, war eliminates us. End of story. In the other we eliminate war. Beginning of story.
Friday, December 20, 2024We Are One-Quarter Through War's Last Century There are clearly two ways in which this could be war's last century, and I'm betting we'll get either one or the other. In one, war eliminates us. End of story. In the other we eliminate war. Beginning of story.
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Friday, December 13, 2024
It's Time to De-Normalize Murder I was asked to talk about Gaza and Syria, and so I shall, but I also want to talk about de-normalizing murder. There have been human societies in which murder was unthinkable, where the most typical Hollywood movie -- marketed to U.S. children -- has been seen as horrific and traumatizing. Normalizing murder is an option, not required by genes or economics or physics. I want us to take responsibility for that.
Friday, December 13, 2024It's Time to De-Normalize Murder I was asked to talk about Gaza and Syria, and so I shall, but I also want to talk about de-normalizing murder. There have been human societies in which murder was unthinkable, where the most typical Hollywood movie -- marketed to U.S. children -- has been seen as horrific and traumatizing. Normalizing murder is an option, not required by genes or economics or physics. I want us to take responsibility for that.
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Sunday, December 8, 2024
The U.S. Congress Pretends to Exist I don't claim to have all the answers, but I do have a question. If the $16 billion just spent on a U.S. election were spent next time on educating, training, mobilizing, and sustaining a nonviolent surrounding of the State Department until it complied with U.S. laws, would that do more good?
Sunday, December 8, 2024The U.S. Congress Pretends to Exist I don't claim to have all the answers, but I do have a question. If the $16 billion just spent on a U.S. election were spent next time on educating, training, mobilizing, and sustaining a nonviolent surrounding of the State Department until it complied with U.S. laws, would that do more good?
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Sunday, December 8, 2024
The Problem with U.S. Culture Summed Up in a New York Times Article About Birds A New York Times article from November 26, 2024, kept showing up on my computer screen, and I kept avoiding it in disgust. Finally, I gave in and read it. It began like this:
Sunday, December 8, 2024The Problem with U.S. Culture Summed Up in a New York Times Article About Birds A New York Times article from November 26, 2024, kept showing up on my computer screen, and I kept avoiding it in disgust. Finally, I gave in and read it. It began like this:
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