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Tonight, Monday, August 3, 2015, 6-7pm CT Listen to David Swanson on Chicago’s WCEV, 1450 AM, or http://tunein.com/radio/WCEV-1450-s23599/ And phone in with questions and comments

By David Swanson, Guest columnist, The Daily Herald In its 1929 Man of the Year article, Time magazine acknowledged that many readers would believe Secretary

By CJ Hinke Excerpted from Free Radicals: War Resisters in Prison by CJ Hinke, forthcoming from Trine-Day in 2016. Acting Costa Rican President José “Don

By David Swanson Jimmy Carter called a war waged in Vietnam by the United States — a war that killed 60,000 Americans and 4,000,000 Vietnamese,

By Kathy Kelly and Buddy Bell A second round of peace talks between Afghan government officials and Taliban representatives, expected to begin before the end

From UpstateDroneAction.org Four anti-drone resisters were sentenced tonight in Judge Joseph J. Zavaglia’s DeWitt (NY) Town Court for alleged trespass at a “die-in” on April

By CJ Hinke, WorldBeyondWar.org Excerpted from Free Radicals: War Resisters in Prison by CJ Hinke, forthcoming from Trine-Day in 2016. The lines of resistance to

By Lawrence Wittner The recent announcement of a nuclear deal between the governments of Iran and other major nations, including the United States, naturally draws

PUBLIC FORUM ON IRAN DEAL Sign up on Facebook and share. Print and distribute flyer. To be held exactly 70 years after nuclear age opened

By CJ Hinke Excerpted from Free Radicals: War Resisters in Prison by CJ Hinke, forthcoming from Trine-Day in 2016. My father, Robert Hinke, was not

By Dan Monte I left from Marin County, just north of San Francisco, to LA on Memorial day, and then on June 15 headed east

By David Swanson George Clooney is being paid by the world’s top two war profiteers, Lockheed-Martin and Boeing, to oppose war profiteering by Africans disloyal

By David Soleil As thoughtful, caring parents, we would never want to teach our kids that violence is the answer to any or every problem. 

Sailing for a Nuclear Free World EUREKA, CALIFORNIA – The historic Golden Rule peace boat, restored by Veterans For Peace and many friends, sets sail

By Robert C. Koehler “. . . no real security, just powers of retaliation.” This was Norman Mailer, four-plus decades ago, writing in Miami and

By CJ Hinke Excerpted from Free Radicals: War Resisters in Prison by CJ Hinke, forthcoming from Trine-Day in 2016. Incredibly, in the 21st-century, roughly half

https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-ukraine-and-the-checkmating-of-the-west Natylie Baldwin and Kermit Heartsong are the authors of Ukraine: Zbig’s Grand Chessboard & How the West Was Checkmated. We speak with both of

Walter Kloefkorn tells me a story from 24 years ago:  “Near the end of my Silicon Valley career in manufacturing I was Materials Director for

It’s not a job, it’s an adventure, or wearing your own clothes is the new camo By CJ Hinke Excerpted from Free Radicals: War Resisters

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Former head of the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Lt. General Michael Flynn has joined the ranks of the many recently retired officials openly admitting

Monday morning  at 7-8AM  tune in (KPFK 90.7 fm)  or log on: http://archive.kpfk.org/index.php?shokey=ctd Nobel Peace Prize nominee David Swanson on the virtues of the American-Iranian

By Kathy Kelly Last weekend, about 100 U.S. Veterans for Peace gathered in Red Wing, Minnesota, for a statewide annual meeting. In my experience, Veterans