David Swanson and Margaret Kimberley: Zone of Peace

by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy
April 22, 2023

This week on Talk World Radio, we’re talking about a Zone of Peace in the Americas, and events in Uganda, and presidential indictments, and everything we find time for with Margaret Kimberley, Executive Editor and Senior Columnist at Black Agenda Report, member of the coordinating committee of Black Alliance for Peace, and author of a wonderful book previously discussed on this show called Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents.

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/04/22/david-swanson-and-margaret-kimberley-zone-of-peace/

How to Convert a War to Peace, by Tom H. Hastings

by Tom H. Hastings
Writer, Dandelion Salad
April 19, 2022

Many attempts have been made to stop war.

Many fail.

Who has done it successfully and what can they teach us?

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/04/19/how-to-convert-a-war-to-peace-by-tom-h-hastings/

Will Griffin: The Pentagon’s Artificial Intelligence

by Will Griffin
Writer, Dandelion Salad
April 18, 2023

“As of April 2021, the Department of Defense has been working on 685 projects which are deeply invested in the development of artificial intelligence. Their budget mainly in the joint AI Center has increased dramatically from 89 million dollars in 2019 to 278 million dollars in 2021.

Clearly the DOD is very much invested into the research and development of AI and using this technology throughout the U.S Armed Forces. But what are their aims? What do they plan on doing with such technology? And what are some of the potential impacts of this?” — Will Griffin

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/04/18/will-griffin-the-pentagons-artificial-intelligence/ 

That’s What A Congress – With Both Parties Dominated By Corporate Predators, Looks Like, by Ralph Nader

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by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page, Apr. 14, 2023
April 16, 2023

Spring, the season of renewal, is here. The ants are diligently building their little symmetrical ant hills. The robins are in their nests occupied with posterity. And the anointed members of Congress, after a long recess, aka vacation, return to work on April 17^th. The next day, April 18^th is the deadline for filing taxes.

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/04/16/thats-what-a-congress-with-both-parties-dominated-by-corporate-predators-looks-like-by-ralph-nader/

Mass Murder: Our Wounded Humanity, by Robert C. Koehler

 by Robert C. Koehler

Guest Writer, Dandelion Salad
April 15, 2023

Once again… once again… once again….

I’m sure you know what I’m referring to. Yeah, another — the latest (?) — mass shooting in the United States, this one at Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky, on April 10, two days ago as I write. Five killed, eight injured. The shooter, an employee of the bank, was killed in a shootout with police. Three officers were injured, including a rookie officer (ten days on the job), who was shot in the head and is struggling to survive. The gunman’s weapon was a nice, reliable AR-15-style rifle, legally purchased at a local gun shop a week earlier.

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/04/15/mass-murder-our-wounded-humanity-by-robert-c-koehler/

New York Times Is Now Telling Bigger Lies Than Iraq WMDs and More Effectively, by David Swanson

 by David Swanson

Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy
April 12, 2023

The New York Times routinely tells bigger lies than the clumsy nonsense it published about weapons in Iraq. Here’s an example. This package of lies is called “Liberals Have a Blind Spot on Defense” but mentions nothing related to defense. It simply pretends that militarism is defensive by applying that word and by lying that “we face simultaneous and growing military threats from Russia and China.” Seriously? Where?

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/04/12/new-york-times-is-now-telling-bigger-lies-than-iraq-wmds-and-more-effectively-by-david-swanson/

Sanctions as Siege Warfare, by Derek Royden

 by Derek Royden

Guest Writer, Dandelion Salad
April 11, 2023

In the distant past, the one place that people could escape a marauding army was behind the walls of a castle. Though this usually protected them from any immediate danger, it created problems of its own. While under siege and waiting for outside help or for the attackers to leave in frustration, those behind the walls could ultimately run out of food and even potable water, which would lead either to surrender or a slow, terrible death.

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/04/11/sanctions-as-siege-warfare-by-derek-royden/

Rescind AUMF Now, by Rev. Robert Moore

 by Rev. Robert Moore

Guest Writer, Dandelion Salad
April 10, 2023

Recently, the US Senate voted on a bipartisan basis to rescind the Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) in Iraq. President Biden, who voted for that AUMF in 2003, has said he will sign it if it gets to his desk.

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/04/10/rescind-aumf-now-by-rev-robert-moore/

John Michael Talbot: He Is Risen + Pope Francis: Let Us Pray for a More Widespread Culture of Nonviolence

 Dandelion Salad

First video originally published Mar. 27, 2016
April 9, 2023

Happy Easter!

“Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him. — Mark 16:6

April: For a Nonviolent Culture

“Living, speaking, and acting without violence is not surrendering, losing or giving up anything, but aspiring to everything. As Saint John XXIII said 60 years ago in his Encyclical Pacem in Terris, war is madness. It’s beyond reason. Any war, any armed confrontation, always ends in defeat for all. Let us develop a culture of peace."

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/04/09/john-michael-talbot-he-is-risen-pope-francis-let-us-pray-for-a-more-widespread-culture-of-nonviolence/

Peter Carter: There’s No Incentive To Use Warfare If You Have A Renewable Energized Planet

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theAnalysis-news on Mar 13, 2023

Why net zero commitments are empty and dangerously misleading if we continue to burn fossil fuels. Talia Baroncelli speaks to retired physician and IPCC climate expert Peter Carter about how ongoing wars, illegal mineral wealth extraction in active conflict zones, and the plunder of resources by transnational corporations are literally killing the planet.

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/04/06/peter-carter-theres-no-incentive-to-use-warfare-if-you-have-a-renewable-energized-planet/

Following Murder of Dr. King: Lessons of the April 1968 Black Rebellions, by Sam Marcy

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by Sam Marcy
Workers World, Apr. 4, 2023
April 4, 2023

Following are excerpts from an article published on April 11, 1968, in WW newspaper, by Workers World Party founding Chairperson Sam Marcy, a week after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., in Memphis, Tennessee.

The rebellions which opened spontaneously upon the heels of the announcement of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. were so widespread that they had an almost universal character throughout the length and breadth of this land. The magnitude and depth of the uprisings were so great that President Johnson had to cancel his Vietnam conference in Honolulu to attend to the crisis here — a sure sign that, for the moment at least, the war of liberation at home took precedence over the war of liberation waged by the Vietnamese people abroad.

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/04/04/following-murder-of-dr-king-lessons-of-the-april-1968-black-rebellions-by-sam-marcy/

The Real Paul Makinen? by David R. Yale, Reviewed by Diane Donovan

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Sent to DS by the author, David R. Yale

by Diane Donovan
Midwest Book Review Bookwatch, Aug. 10, 2022
April 3, 2023

The Real Paul Makinen?
By David R. Yale
A Healthy Relationship Press, LLC
978-0-9791766-0-9,  978-0-9791766-1-6,  978-0-9791766-3-0
www.DavidRYale.Com

The Real Paul Makinen? is a novel not for those seeking quick reads, but is highly recommended for readers not daunted by complex, in-depth probes of emotional relationships, from family and work to potential loved ones.

Set in three parts, it introduces the milieu of Minneapolis in the early 1970s, where the 19-year-old Paul receives his draft notice, refuses to go, and is summarily thrown out of his parents’ house.

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/04/03/the-real-paul-makinen-by-david-r-yale-reviewed-by-diane-donovan/

Chris Hedges and Lori Grinker: Afterwar: Veterans from a World in Conflict and Mike Tyson

Dandelion Salad
March 31, 2023

with Chris Hedges

I first encountered Lori Grinker’s remarkable work as a photographer in her book Afterwar: Veterans from a World in Conflict, where a century of war is represented by and through portraits of individuals and their haunting stories of war.

Her other books include Dear Grinkers, a photographic series on diaspora, Six Days From Forty, an installation revolving around her brother’s life and his death from AIDS, and A Portrait of Audrey and All the Little Things, which considers her mother’s struggles with cancer and dementia in documentary and still life images.

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/03/31/chris-hedges-and-lori-grinker-afterwar-veterans-from-a-world-in-conflict-and-mike-tyson/