'…a major destabilizing influence'
Solidarity maximum with the oppressed for whom you sacrificed your life will resonate forever, my brother. One day, the people will rise up against, as you told us in your last breath,”I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest, but compared to what people …
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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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[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 …
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 …
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 …
“I’m surprised you were able to make this film.” — Bob Scheer, host of KCRW’s “Scheer Intelligence” The world has somehow reached a moment where the use of nuclear weapons has possibly never been closer and the interest in nuclear weapons has possibly never …
Review by Dave Lindorff Usually when I read a interesting book I’m reviewing and being a journalist, I often find myself inspired to write an article that delves further into some aspect that the book brushed on. But in the case of Norman Solomon’s infuriating, well-documented and much needed book War Made Invisible: How America …
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The stolen and lied-about documents that Trump stands indicted for trying to hide from federal investigators, such as information about the American nuclear weapons stockpile, its assessment of other nuclear nations’ nuclear arsenals and vulnerabilities, plans to attack Iran, and embarrassing assessments of foreign leaders, have pundits and politicians in appropriate high dudgeon. But no …
Today’s make or break for President Joe Biden and his wimpy attorney general Merrick Garland on the issue of a free press. The US Constitution, flawed as it is as a founding document, is unequivocal on the matter. Its much cited and touted First Amendment states; “Congress shall make no law…abridging freedom of speech …
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 …