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/ 

Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai: Russia Leaves Neoliberal West To Join World Majority

by Michael Hudson

Writer, Dandelion Salad
April 17, 2023

Geopolitical Economy Report on Apr 13, 2023

In this episode of their program Geopolitical Economy Hour, economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson discuss Russia’s economic transition away from the neoliberal West and integration with what it calls the “World Majority” in the Global South.

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/04/17/michael-hudson-and-radhika-desai-russia-leaves-neoliberal-west-to-join-world-majority/

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/

Chris Hedges: Haiti’s Jimmy “Barbecue” Chérizier: Gang Leader or Revolutionary? + Another Vision: Inside Haiti’s Uprising

Dandelion Salad

April 14, 2023

with Chris Hedges

TheRealNews on Apr 14, 2023

Jimmy “Barbecue” Chérizier has been placed in the international spotlight as an emblem of Haiti’s purported “gang problem.” But who is Chérizier really? A new documentary series, “Another Vision: Inside Haiti’s Uprising,” offers a different view of Chérizier—not as the leader of a criminal enterprise, but as a political figure leading an armed revolutionary movement. Directors Dan Cohen and Kim Ives join The Chris Hedges Report to discuss their new project.

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/04/14/chris-hedges-haitis-jimmy-barbecue-cherizier-gang-leader-or-revolutionary-another-vision-inside-haitis-uprising/

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/

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 Latest Offensive From U.S. Imperialism: The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, by Pete Dolack

by Pete Dolack
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Systemic Disorder, Mar. 29, 2023
March 30, 2023

As production is moved to ever more distant locales, with ever lower labor and environmental standards, the corporations behind these moves want all barriers to the movement of raw materials and finished products removed. Thus the era of so-called “free trade” agreements. These agreements, which are written to elevate corporations to the level of national governments (and in practice, actually above governments), have become so unpopular thanks to the efforts of grassroots activists to expose them to public scrutiny that governments have become cautious about embracing new ones.

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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/03/30/the-latest-offensive-from-u-s-imperialism-the-indo-pacific-economic-framework-by-pete-dolack/