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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
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Ann Batten Cristall
From An Ode
What dire disorder ravages the world!
Beasts, birds, fish, insects, war with...
If you wonder what the post-Trump Republican Party will look like, take a glimpse at Tom Cotton, one of the US senators from Arkansas (where I live). Cotton has waged a relentless campaign for war against Iran and has supported every horror produced by the US foreign-policy establishment for the...
Protests turned deadly in Baghdad.
The post <I>Iraq Daily Roundup</I>: Three Killed; Clashes at Baghdad Protest appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.
LIONEL LIVE in Amenia, NY
On January 22, 2020 — LIONEL, the Emmy award-winning mononymous digital truth warrior, veteran talk radio practitioner, former prosecutor, trial lawyer, bluegrass practitioner, author and legal and media analyst inaugurates his 2020 Pop-Up...
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
British writers on peace and war
William Shakespeare: Selections on war and peace
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William Shakespeare
From Henry IV, Part 2
LANCASTER
The word of peace is rendered. Hark...
January 15, 2020 will be remembered as the start of the transition to a new political configuration in Russia that Vladimir Putin will leave behind when his term in office ends four years hence. The prospective changes were announced in the last third of Putin’s 75-minute annual Address to the...
As we march headlong into a new Middle East conflict, it is prudent to reflect on what has come before and how we found ourselves seemingly inevitably, on this path – a path cut with our own blade. On Friday, January 3rd, the US government decided to ring in the new year with bombs bursting …...
Since 9/11 Israel and its lobby have been hard at work narrowing U.S. policy options toward Iran down to military confrontation. The United States District Court for the District of Columbia is also in the narrowing business. After initially complying with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)...
A bombing took place near the Saudi border.
The post <I>Iraq Daily Roundup</I>: Seven Killed; Bombing Near Saudi Border appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.
Chugging through America’s atherosclerotic rail artery. As I tap this Mrs. L and I are all aboard the Amtrak regional to the sump pump of the swamp, Washington DC. We just pulled out of Penn Station, the most antiquated and anachronistic and antediluvian and ossified and concretized shithole of...
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
American writers on peace and against war
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Robert Underwood Johnson
To the Peace Palace at the Hague
Builded of Love and Joy and Faith and Hope,
Thou standest firm beyond the tides...
What we need is nothing less than an intellectual revolution that rearranges the priorities in our Arab world and eliminates the impurities that hampered our path, and eliminates the sanctity of many traditions that proved futile in the march of progress and prosperity, and establishment of a...
United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, January 15, 2020 Exhibit a for Demanding Witnesses and Documents in Trump’s Senate Trial Now Provided by Lev Parnas; His Voluminous Docs Show Giuliani Asked to Meet Zelensky of Ukraine as Trump’s Personal...
A seemingly ordinary news story, published in the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, on January 7, shed light on a long-forgotten, yet crucial, subject: Israel’s so-called "firing zones" in the West Bank. "Israel has impounded the only vehicle available to a medical team that provides assistance to 1,...
When witnesses testify in a courtroom and offer varying, contradictory or even unlawful explanations of the events under scrutiny, juries tend not to believe them. The same is now happening with the Trump administration’s defense of its killing Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani by the use of an...
An advisor to the governor of Basra was wounded in a shooting.
The post <I>Iraq Daily Roundup</I>: Seven Killed; Gunmen Target Advisor to Basra Governor appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
British writers on peace and war
William Shakespeare: Selections on war and peace
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William Shakespeare
From Henry IV Part 2
O wondrous him!
O miracle of men! – him did you...
Who’s to blame for downing Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752? Everyone’s pointing the finger at Iran. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says that it must take "full responsibility," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is demanding an official apology, while even Iranian...
Practically speaking, the Trump administration’s extrajudicial assassination of a top Iranian general was probably legal. The rationale is straightforward: Congress has steadily settled on a constitutionally dubious theory of handing the president near-limitless authority over how, when, and why...
The notion of “fake news” has entered our vocabulary as a pejorative term for dissemination of bogus information, usually by social media, sometimes by traditional print and electronic channels which happen to hold positions contradicting the tenets of our conventional wisdom, i.e., liberal...
A Turkish soldier and a guard were killed during anti-PKK operations in northern Iraq.
The post <I>Iraq Daily Roundup</I>: Turkish Soldier Among Seven Killed appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.
United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, January 14, 2020 Pro-Trump Lockstep Collapses Among Senate Republicans; White House Demand for Immediate Dismissal of Charges Gets Nowhere; Plausible Trial Will Require Witnesses Earlier Blocked by Trump;...
One of the annoying things about continuing to write about the OPCW/Douma scandal in the near-total absence of mainstream media coverage is the fact that it’s difficult for a new reader to just jump in on this developing story without having followed it from the beginning. There are a lot of...
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
German writers on peace and war
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Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
From Simplicius Simplicissimus
Now when I came home I found that my fireplace and all my poor furniture,...
United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Monday, January 13, 2020 New York Fed Has Pumped $6 Trillion into Collapsing New York Repo Market, Creating Permanent Addiction to Low-Interest Cash; Doubtful That Overnight and Short Term Repurchase Agreements Have...
The directed killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s blood-soaked field marshal in the "forever war" of the Middle East, has begun to roil the politics of both the region and the USA. A stunned and shaken Iran retaliated by firing a dozen missiles at two U.S. bases in Iraq. Yet, before...
President Trump’s decision earlier this month to assassinate Iran’s top military general on Iraqi soil – over the objection of the Iraqi government – has damaged the US relationship with its “ally” Iraq and set the region on the brink of war. Iran’s measured response – a few missiles fired on an...
I’ve had it out for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Army General Mark Milley, of late. My dislike for the man might even constitute an intellectual blind spot. Count me guilty as charged. I’ve mistrusted this character – who brilliantly weaves both plainspoken soldier’s bluster with a veneer of...
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
British writers on peace and war
Women writers on peace and war
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Margaret Postgate Cole
The Veteran
We came upon him sitting in the sun
Blinded by war, and left. And past the...
Trump blinked. After threatening to bomb military and cultural sites in Iran, President Donald Trump has apparently backed down on further escalation in his quasi-war with Iran. He tried to spin his decision as a US victory, claiming his administration had supposedly made America safer by...
"Be assured of one thing: whichever candidate you choose at the polls in November, you aren’t just electing a president of the United States; you are also electing an assassin-in-chief… In previous eras… presidents either stayed above the assassination fray or practiced a kind of plausible...
While an eerie, surreal calm has fallen over US-Iranian relations, I wouldn’t assume we’re out of the woods yet. Trump had no reason to be confident that Iran’s response to his most recent escalation of violence would be little more than symbolic. Although he’s accepted that response more or...
Protests lefts dozens of wounded in Karbala and Kut.
The post <I>Iraq Daily Roundup</I>: Four Killed; Dozens Wounded in Protests appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
British writers on peace and war
William Shakespeare: Selections on war and peace
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William Shakespeare
From Henry VI Part Three
Alarum. Enter a Son that has killed his father,...
Moscow Mitch Had Threatened to Back Hawley’s Rule Change for Preventive Dismissal of Charges; After Murkowski and Romney, Collins Makes Feeble Effort for Senate Trial with Witnesses and Documents After Three Years of Trump Chaos, World Faces Convergence of Crises: Iran, North Korea, Brexit,...
Red Lines host Anya Parampil and Diego Sequera, an investigative journalist with the Venezuelan website Misión Verdad, reflect on Juan…
The post Juan Guaidó’s Top 5 Fails appeared first on The Grayzone.
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
American writers on peace and against war
Women writers on peace and war
Lucia Trent: Women of War
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Lucia Trent
Breed, Women, Breed
Breed, little mothers,
With tired...
It’s time to bring our troops home. Bring them home from Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. Bring them home from Germany, South Korea and Japan. Bring them home from Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Oman. Bring them home from Niger, Chad and Mali. Bring them home from Turkey, the Philippines, and...
The Syrian civil war, which has been raging since 2011, is one of the worst tragedies of the early twenty-first century. Approximately half a million people have died, about six million people have fled the country, and another six million people remain internally displaced. Much of the country...
In one of the series of blatant lies the USA has told to justify the assassination of Soleimani, Mike Pompeo said that Soleimani was killed because he was planning “Imminent attacks” on US citizens. It is a careful choice of word. Pompeo is specifically referring to the Bethlehem Doctrine of Pre...
A reporter and cameraman were shot dead as they left a protest in Basra.
The post <I>Iraq Daily Roundup</I>: 14 Killed; Journalists Gunned Down at Protest appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.
by Frank Bosse
Equilibrium climate sensitivity computed from the latest energy imbalance data.
The Earth Energy Imbalance (EEI) is a key issue for estimating climate sensitivity.
If EEI is positive then the Earth’s climate system gains energy; if it’s negative the system...
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
British writers on peace and war
William Shakespeare: Selections on war and peace
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William Shakespeare
From Julius Caesar
OCTAVIUS
You may do your will;
But he’s a...
On January 6, just days after the U.S. assassination of Iranian general Qassem Suleimani, Agnes Callamard, the United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, requested that U.N. Secretary General António Guterres "establish an impartial inquiry into [the] lawfulness of Soleimani’...
Originally posted at TomDispatch. Yes, our infrastructure stinks, our schools are failing, this country’s a nightmare of inequality, and there’s a self-promoting madman in the White House, so isn’t it time to take pride in the rare institutional victories America has had in this century?...
Joe Biden’s statement that “President Trump just tossed a stick of dynamite into a tinderbox” by assassinating Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani was not inaccurate. But it skirts an all-important question: who created the tinderbox in the first place? The answer, of course, is the...
Red Lines host Anya Parampil breaks down recent events in Venezuela, after US-backed coup leader Juan Guaidó was replaced as…
The post The end of Juan Guaidó: Venezuelan coup leader rejected by country’s opposition appeared first on The Grayzone.
An unconfirmed number of Afghan civilians – reportedly more than 60 – were killed along with the regional leader of a splinter Taliban faction and dozens of militants in a US drone attack in Herat province on Wednesday. Local government officials and members of the Herat provincial council told...
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
American writers on peace and against war
Women writers on peace and war
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Jean Lewis Morris
A Patriot I!
A patriot I! This is my cry:
Build large each battleship!
Arm...
"America … goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy." ~ President John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) Last week, President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military to invade a then-friendly country without the knowledge or consent of its government and assassinate a visiting foreign government...
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