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Oh, how I have wanted to write a poem about the F-35! About how angry I was when it was allowed To crash the mountain skies above Burlington. But when I visited Burlington recently I realized that the F-35 is only part of the story Of a town that has lost its way. And …
US backpedaling in its support for Israel’s brutal invasion of Gaza and the destruction of the entire northern half of the walled-off and blockaded territory that is home and prison for 2.3 million trapped Palestinians. This stepping back from full-throated support for Israel is occurring however, only after Israel achieved or claimed to have achieved …
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` (Issued Nov. 2, 2023) Radical Elders adds our voice to the worldwide outcry for an immediate ceasefire in the Israeli government’s genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza. The insanity of our imperialist, racial capitalist world continues to explode. We add our voice to the world’s outrage at this most recent eruption, in one of …
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I would like to start by quoting excerpts from a recent article in the New York Times, “A Secret War, Strange New Wounds, and Silence from the Pentagon.” by Dave Phillips: Many U.S. troops who fired vast numbers of artillery rounds against the Islamic State developed mysterious, life-shattering mental and physical …
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[Source: goodreads.com] Ted Hall Helped the Soviet Union to Counterbalance the U.S. Monopoly on Atomic Weaponry After World War II, Which Acted as a Deterrent Against Aggressive U.S. War Plans Dave Lindorff initiated the documentary film A Compassionate Spy, following a correspondence with Ted Hall’s 87-year-old widow, Joan Hall. Lindorff had written an article in …
When the US was bombing levees and hospitals in North Vietnam and peasants in their rice paddies in Laos and burning villages in South Vietnam, herding those not killed in the process into “strategic hamlets,” Americans took to the streets en masse, occupied the Pentagon mall, brought central Washington DC to a standstill, and broke …
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Yesterday, here in Philadelphia, I watched as a large grey four-engine jet with the distinctive fat squarish-looking fuselage of a military C-17 lumbered eastward far overhead, almost certainly one of the earliest of many such massive cargo planes bound for Israel loaded with heavy ammunition, bombs and who knows what other horrors designed by the …
Providence, RI – The decades long efforts to erode the public credibility of U.S. political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal sustained a substantial setback recently at an unlikely location: an Ivy League university. Brown University, the Ivy League institution located in Providence, Rhode Island, opened a unique exhibition on September 28, 2023, at its John Hay Library, …
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This article was originally published by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) In its fund-raising promotions, NPR touts shows like “Morning Edition” as providing listeners a “deeper look” at complicated stories. Sometimes that is the case, but on this past Sept. 8, in the case of an announced decision by the Biden administration …
Buy cars of many colors, Drive back and forth at top speed. Farm cattle in giant feedlots All over the world. Feed them crap that makes them burp Until the atmosphere fills up with methane. Keep burning oil And drill for it in pristine places out of sight out of mind, And off shore …
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