Danny Sjursen advocates for a reclaiming of Veterans Day and a return to the principles of the holiday originally known as Armistice Day. Armistice Day celebrated the end to one of the bloodiest wars in world history, and Sjursen reminds us how eminently worthy of...
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The Great Hero Mikhail Gorbachev: Don’t Build Berlin-style Wall Between Russia and West
Here's a man who deserves some attention when he beseeches: Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, has warned against building a new physical or invisible wall between Russia and the West, 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. In written comments to Reuters...
Politicians Suffer Identity Crisis, Should Let Veterans Lead Instead
President Donald Trump withdraws U.S. troops from Syria and is broadly attacked. Hillary Clinton accuses fellow Democrat Tulsi Gabbard of being a “Russian asset,” and Congresswoman Gabbard, an Iraq War veteran and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, calls Clinton...
Veterans Day: The Forgotten History of America’s Veterans Day and What It Commemorates
Veterans Day, celebrated each year on November 11th, was first celebrated on this same date in 1919, under the name of Armistice Day. The holiday was named in remembrance of the temporary ceasefire that brought about the unofficial end to World War I when, the year...
11/7/19 Ron Enzweiler on the Neocons’ Absurd Syrian Oil Narrative
Scott interviews Ron Enzweiler about President Trump trying to keep troops in Syria in order to seize their oil fields for American use. Enzweiler says that apart from this being illegal under international law, Syria's oil fields amount to about 0.2% of the global...
11/7/19 Francis Boyle: In Defense of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7
Scott interviews Francis Boyle about his attempts to help Liz McAlister and the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 in their legal battle for what he views as justified civil resistance. McAlister helped break into the Kings Bay nuclear base in order to peacefully and symbolically...
11/7/19 Matthew Hoh on the Unwinnable War in Afghanistan
Matthew Hoh discusses the extraordinary difficulties in resolving the complex political and ethnic tensions in Afghanistan, something that the U.S. military has been trying to do for going on 20 years. Hoh says that during his time there he saw lots of practices by...
News Roundup 11/11/19
US News Using isolation to prevent suicides in prison, makes it more likely people will attempt suicide. [Link] The US Supreme Court rules that civil asset forfeiture can violate the 8th Amendment. [Link] Texas will execute a possibly innocent man, Rodney Reed. The...
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