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UN Issues a Drone Warfare Warning

On the surface, a UN investigation into war crimes in southern Ukraine might feel far from Fresno. The cities mentioned in the report are half a world away. The names are not immediately recognized: [...] Continue Reading

Telling People What They Want to Believe

The military-industrial-media complex. That’s the terminology Norman Solomon uses in his 2023 book War Made Invisible. According to Solomon’s meticulously documented analysis, “[t]he business of [...] Continue Reading

Starting a War with Venezuela

As of Oct. 15, the United States had attacked five small boats off the coast of Venezuela, in international waters. Six people were killed in the most recent attack (as of this writing). The first [...] Continue Reading

Provoking a War with Venezuela?

On Sept. 15, the United States announced that another boat in international waters thousands of miles from the U.S. coast had been bombed by U.S. forces, killing three people. Daphne Eviatar, [...] Continue Reading

Ending the Delusion of Nuclear Weapons

While listening to John F. Kennedy’s July 25, 1963, radio and television address to the American people on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, I couldn’t help but think back on a time when I was only eight [...] Continue Reading

80th Commemoration of Atomic Bombings

A clear and beautiful blue sky, cicadas singing and a peaceful morning, broken by the detonation of an atomic bomb dropped high above Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. Three days later, another morning was [...] Continue Reading