Will Porter returns to the show to discuss the US announcing that it plans to spend China and Russia into oblivion in a new arms race. In recent years the US has been working towards a new Cold War. Will explains how the announcement ties with Trump's foreign policy...
On FPF #355, I talk about Memorial Day being used as propaganda for the wars. Common phrases like "they died for our freedoms" and "we are safe because of their sacrifices" are uttered by nearly everyone. The propaganda is effective in reducing criticism of US foreign...
On Memorial Day Bill R. Edmonds on war and moral injury : "Some do not get to come home. For those who do, however, some bring their wars home, within them. Too often, they go on to suffer alone, and in silence. Too often, their traumas last a lifetime. Healing,...
What if soldiers were all replaced by robots? We'd have no one to mourn, except the civilian victims of war. We'd have no need for Memorial Day. Even so, such a world would be our worst nightmare. A lynchpin of success for many of the non-violence movements in the...
Note: This column was originally published for Memorial Day 2016 This weekend, Americans will seize the opportunity to sleep in an extra day, fire up the family grill, and maybe — probably not, but maybe — wheel out to a family cemetery, lay flowers on graves, and...
[playlist artists="false" images="false"...
