David Swanson reviews the book Obama’s Unending Wars: Fronting the Foreign Policy of the Permanent Warfare State.
“Kuzmarov places Obama in historical context and outlines his parallels with Woodrow Wilson, another extreme militarist generally understood as a peace visionary. Kuzmarov reviews — and adds information that many of us probably never knew to — the story of Obama’s rise to power and the story of all of his many wars.”
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Lebanon is getting hit every day, and the word “ceasefire” is doing a lot of dishonest work. We sit down with journalist Harrison Berger to map what’s actually happening in southern Lebanon: ongoing Israeli airstrikes, continued occupation, and reports of villages...
John and I continue to read and discuss Ordinary Men, the elections, and dehumanization.
The lights turned on the moment he walked into his house. He stopped and looked to his wife who was smiling. Neville was not a Luddite, just sceptical, “do we really need this?” he asked. Karen smiled, “It’s fun. Besides, it’s the 21st century and we need to keep up.”...
