[by Madonna Gauding] In the windowless rooms of American corporate media, the assumption of U.S. hegemony is echoed on the alphabet TV channels and
Category: War
NYT Editorial Board ignores US role in destabilizing Ukraine
On Tuesday, April 29, 2014, The Editorial Board of the New York Times penned an opinion piece on Ukraine—“Not Getting Through to Mr. Putin.”
Countering Washington’s false narratives on Ukraine
The lies spewing forth from the mainstream media about the US backed coup in Ukraine remind me of the run up to the Iraq
Dirty Wars
Last week, I watched a documentary shown by the St. Louis Peace Economy Project and Instead of War. It was called Dirty Wars and was based on the
George W. Bush discovers—rather late in the game—empathy for soldiers he destroyed
More than 10 years, six-thousand+ body bags, and hundreds of thousands of physically and psychologically wounded veterans too late, George W. Bush may finally
In Congress: A bill to abolish nuclear weapons by 2020
We need to work to end wars. One way to do that is to get rid of all nuclear weapons. Eleanor Holmes Norton has
NSA leaker Snowden and the debatable definition of “heroism”
Edward Snowden is back in the news with a story that the government may be considering offering him amnesty in exchange for return of
War weary? There’s a bill for that.
With winter coming, I love to go out when it snows and the air is so peaceful. I even like to shovel snow at
Chalmers Johnson: We need to liquidate our military empire
One of the most read articles on Occasional Planet is Gloria Bilchik’s “Military Mystery: How Many Bases Does the US Have, Anyway?” Since it
How to destroy your chemical weapons
Agreeing to get rid of Syria’s chemical weapons was the hard part—and “was” is, admittedly, an optimistic word. But if Russia, the U.S. and