Interviewer Ron Ridenour holds Ted Hall’s posthumous Nobel Peace Prize in the form of a Peace Lily as film director Steve James makes a point with Joan Hall and journalist-producer Dave Lindorff. [Source: Photo courtesy of Jette Salling] [In this piece, Ron Ridenour interviews Steve James, the director of A Compassionate Spy, and Joan Hall, Ted …
Can An American Scientist Who Smuggled Critical Nuclear Secrets to the Russians After World War II Be Considered a “Good Guy”? New Film Says Yes.
New Documentary Reveals How A Teenage Army Physicist Named Ted Hall Saved The Russian People From A Treacherous U.S. Sneak Attack In 1950-51—And May Well Have Prevented A Global Nuclear Holocaust The provocative documentary “A Compassionate Spy” tells the amazing but almost unknown story of a “near-genius” Harvard physics major, who at age 17, was selected to …
What kind of ‘democracy’ is this?
We Americans Need a Say in How Far the US Should Go in Backing Ukraine!
Russian president Vladimir Putin is playing a dangerous game by making threats to use ‘small’ so-called theater nuclear weapons with explosive power just a fraction of the power of the city-busting bombs the US used on Japan in August 1945. But so is the White House and the Pentagon playing a dangerous game in …
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Rebranding the Democratic Party:
Call it the WAR PARTY
My colleague and long-time friend Dave Lindorff did it. He provoked me to rescind my vow, quite temporarily I’m hoping, to stop writing about political matters, at least directly. Dave’s desire to rename the Republican Party as the “Bad Losers Party”, and his closing remark opening others to rename the Democratic Party, motivated …
$17 billion could buy a lot of food aid:
What’s in the Massive US Military Aid Package to Ukraine?
This article was written for The Edge, a publication of the Ithaca College Park Center for Independent Media The first point that needs to be made in addressing the colossal $40 billion Ukraine arms aid package passed by Congress and rushed by plane to Asia for President Joe Biden’s signature is that it’s not all …
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Putin’s threat to turn to nuclear weapons is nothing new:
The US Nuked Two Cities in WWII and Has Threatened to Use Them Often Since Then
During this war in Ukraine, much had been written about how Russia and President Vladimir Putin have “broken the nuclear taboo” or “could break the nuclear taboo” by threatening or actually using “small” tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine. The threats have indeed been made, and they could potentially be more than bluffs. But …
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Preenting the looming right-wing takeover of America
Time for Democrats to Stand and Deliver or Admit They Want to Lose Power
The outlook for Democrats in Washington and in statehouses across the country in 2022 and in the next presidential election in 2024 range between dismal and disastrous. The party, infested by neo-liberals who want more military spending, more wars, less regulation, “market solutions” to problems like health care and a decent, secure retirement for all …
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Getting at the truth amid a storm of lies
Teach-in on the War in Ukraine
Our own Ron Ridenour, along with a number of knowledgeable experts on the region, the war, the CIA and other related issues will be on hand to discuss the current crisis in Ukraine this April 1.
If you’re elderly, angry and an experienced activist, be there!
Radical Elders to Organizational Meeting Next Saturday, March 26!
Are you a veteran activist or a veteran organizer of progressive organizations and are over age 55? If so, here’s some exciting news. We all know America is moving into a dangerous period of reaction, the world climate is careening out of control threatening human and perhaps all life on earth, wars and US military …
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Important history lesson:
NATO is Not a Defensive International Organization But Was Founded to Threaten the USSR
Reading US reports on the deadly Russian rocket attack on the so-called International Peacekeeping and Security Center in western Ukraine, one could be excused for thinking that the Russians might have been destroying some UN peacekeeping base. In fact, the deceptively named target, as a few US news reports on the attack did note, …