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Have We Lost Our Humanity?
Social media oligarchs and the corporate press are flooding Americans’ minds with Ukrainian officials’ pleas, most notably from President Volodymyr Zelensky, calling for the U.S. and NATO to “close the sky.” That is to implement a No-Fly-Zone over Ukraine, shoot down Russian planes, strike Moscow’s air defenses inside Russia, and otherwise start World War III. Even Senator Marco Rubio, the neoconservative spokesman, opposes this. Yes, we oversee and cheer on weapons transfers to keep the war going without any care for how much it costs in blood or treasure. But it is not enough. Zelensky says this reluctance to plunge the globe into what would almost certainly be a nuclear war shows we are losing our “humanity.”
Have We Lost Our Humanity?
Are Pandemic Hospitalization Numbers Misleading Us?
Heeding Steve Bannon’s Call, Election Deniers Organize to Seize Control of the GOP — and Reshape America’s Elections
The stolen election myth inspired thousands of Trump supporters to take over the Republican Party at the local level, exerting more partisan influence on how elections are run.
Heeding Steve Bannon’s Call, Election Deniers Organize to Seize Control of the GOP — and Reshape America’s Elections
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U.S. Army: 0 — Internet: 1 by David Swanson
by David Swanson Writer, Dandelion Salad Let’s Try Democracy Originally posted May 26, 2019 May 30, 2021
The U.S. Army tweeted a harmless rah-rah tweet and got hit with a burst of reality never encountered on corporate-controlled media. Score one for the internet.
U.S. Army: 0 — Internet: 1 by David Swanson
At Least 36% of Mass Shooters Have Been Trained By the U.S. Military, by David Swanson
A Moment Of Silence In A Forest Of White Crosses
A Moment Of Silence In A Forest Of White Crosses
by Gregory Ross
The Dead
do not require our silence to be honored
do not require our silence to be remembered
do not require our silence as remembrance, as honor
do not expect our silence to end:
the carnage of war
the child starved
the woman raped
the virulence of intolerance
the Earth desecrated.
It is the living who require our silence
in a lifetime of fear and complicity.
The Dead
do require our courage to defy the powerful and greedy
do require our lives be loud, compassionate, courageous
do require our anger at the continuance of war in their name
do require our shock at the maiming of the Earth in their name
do require our outrage to be honored, to be remembered
The Dead
have no use for our silence.
What Waging War Is Really Like, by David Swanson
by David Swanson Writer, Dandelion Salad Let’s Try Democracy, Oct. 2, 2020 October 4, 2020
The vast majority of people who experience war directly, first-hand, rather than through Hollywood movies or politicians’ speeches, are the people who live where wars are waged. In wars involving distant wealthy nations on one-side, some 95% of those killed or injured or traumatized, and 100% of those bombed out of their homes are people against whom war is waged, most of them civilians and the rest of them people doing exactly what any Hollywood movie or politician would tell them — have told them — to do: fight back.
What Waging War Is Really Like, by David Swanson
Coronavirus pandemic, social distancing are taking toll on veterans’ mental health
Coronavirus pandemic, social distancing are taking toll on veterans’ mental health
Veterans are facing increased mental health challenges during the coronavirus pandemic with less access to in-person therapy and isolation from friends and family, according to a new survey of Wounded Warrior Project members released this week.
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