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Special Counsel Faulted for Failure to Formulate Charges on Obstruction, Question Trump, Dig Deeper into Russian Business Dealings; Fate of Nation Outweighs Absurd 1973 DoJ Ban on Indicting President; Most of Report Cries Out to Congress for Impeachment; Abundant Misprisions of Felonies; Barr...
På påskaftonens afton samlade jag och en skara vänner vid det gamla gravfältet i Stabby för att enligt urgammal sed tända en våreld, även kallad påskeld när den tänds på påskaftonen. Gravarna är från äldre järnåldern, alltså ungefär 2500 år gamla. På bilden ser ni mig med min yngsta vän...
Äggjakt är en rolig lek vid påsk. Det är mycket roligare än att bara ge barnen varsitt ägg. I stället säger man: ”Jag tror att jag såg en skymt av påskharen, men han skuttade så fort. Jag tror att han kan ha gömt några ägg här. Ska vi leta?”
Men jag tycker inte detta är nog heller...
The only US president to complete his term without war, military attack or occupation has called the United States “the most warlike nation in the history of the world.” During his regular Sunday school lesson at Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, Jimmy Carter revealed...
Här är ett antal stycken om harar som jag samlat lagom till påsk. Man kan läsa någon av dem för barnen innan man börjar leta efter godisäggen som haren kommit med.
Den första berättelsen är en fabel hämtad ur Tolf lärorika och nöjsamma fabler för ungdom med åtta kolorerade...
Elias Grip (1873-1942), var en nordist, författare och skolman. Han utgav en mängd översättningar och populära samlingar av folksagor från olika länder samt biografier. Bland hans verk märks främst Några bidrag till kännedom om svenskt folkliv. Folksed, folktro och folkdiktning i Uppland...
Idag är det långfredag och man ska ha tråkigt. Det var denna dag som Jesus korsfästes. Men jag tror inte att Jesus var Guds son, så varför ska jag ha tråkigt? För att jag tycker att det är en bra idé att ha en tråkig tid före en glad tid, då blir glädjen desto större. Redan de gamla...
"The president has said that he does not want to see this country involved in endless wars… I agree with that," Bernie Sanders told the Fox News audience at Monday’s town hall meeting in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Then turning and staring straight into the camera, Bernie added: "Mr. President,...
British police dragged WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on April 11, witnessed by a scrum of international media. Authorities in the United Kingdom and US then tried to drag Assange’s reputation through the mud. The official story was that Assange wore out...
ISIS killed an officer during an attack.
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I just returned from 11 days in Venezuela, my sixth trip there since 2005.
Plaza Bolivar in Caracas, VenezuelaMany people have asked me how they can understand what’s really happening in Venezuela based on information from public institutions such as the U.S. government and the...
Idag är det den 18 april och skärtorsdag. Den här dikten är hämtad ur Erik Axel Karlfeldts diktsamling Flora och Bellona (1918) och handlar om två häxor som far till Blåkulla.
HÄXRITT
Två häxor flyga fram med hast.
Håll fast, håll fast,
du unga lärling, vid din kvast!...
United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, April 17, 2019 At Fox Bethlehem PA Town Hall, Bernie Afraid to Identify Russia and China as Existential Threats to U.S. Since This Might Trigger Greater Military Spending!; If Carbon Emissions Are Really the...
So, what have we learned from the Israeli legislative elections on April 9? A whole lot. To start with, don’t let such references as the "tight race" between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and his main rival, Benny Gantz, fool you. Yes, Israelis are divided on some issues that are...
For Israelis, the questions had been hovering for months. Would the right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claim victory and a fifth term, moving his far-right Likud government coalition even further right? Or would the supposedly “centrist” challenger, former army chief of staff General...
Idag är det den 17 april och dymmelonsdag, den fjärde dagen i stilla veckan. Men idag var också den vackraste vårdagen i år. Solen sken när jag och mina vänner möttes vid gravkapellet på Gamla kyrkogården i Uppsala. Vi var där för att hälsa våren välkommen tillsammans med några av våra...
Konstnären Ilon Wikland har illustrerat de flesta Astrid Lindgren-böcker. Hon föddes i Estland 1930 men kom som 14-åring till Sverige. Den här bilden är hämtad ur Vår i Bullerbyn (1965):
Men sedan började det skymma, och då kom pappa och tände på en lövhög som vi hade krattat ihop...
Pollster Gallup admitted on March 28 that three decades of polling data contain fundamental flaws "well beyond what we would attribute to normal sampling error." Gallup’s admission centers on its high-stakes question of whether Americans have greater sympathy for Israelis or for Palestinians....
After winning the Israeli election with a slim majority, in a campaign that grew more sordid and vilifying by the day, Benjamin Netanyahu is poised to begin his fifth term as Israeli prime minister. The culmination of his dirty tricks campaign was an election-day stunt in which his Likud party...
We have to fight "them" (read: "terrorists") there so we won’t have to fight them here! You’ve probably heard that tired old trope. Whenever someone dares suggest that after eighteen years of fruitless wars perhaps it’s time for Uncle Sam’s losing war machine to de-escalate in the Greater Middle...
A bomb in Fallujah wounded over a dozen soldiers.
The post Roadside Bomb Targets Soldiers; 23 Killed in Iraq appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.
MEMORANDUM FOR: The President FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPs) SUBJECT: The Fly in the Mueller Ointment Mr. President: The song has ended but the melody lingers on. The expected release Thursday of the redacted text of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s “Report on the...
Let’s start with this week’s front page monster.There it was. Covered by everyone. An international event nonpareil, immane in structure and import. Monumental! Journalism’s watch dog and attack dog, Julian Assange’s colossal event . . . whatever the hell that was. The brutal capture, a Keystone...
There’s only been one person – so far – who suffered for the sins of the world and either saved us a lot of trouble or else caused us a lot of unnecessary grief. All I know is that a lot of people are hoping for His return – and for a better outcome. As … Continue reading "Julian Assange and the...
Last week’s arrest of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange by the British government on a US extradition order is an attack on all of us. It is an attack on the US Constitution. It is an attack on the free press. It is an attack on free speech. It is an attack on our right to … Continue reading "...
The current political brawl over next year’s budget is highly significant. With Democrats in a House majority for the first time in eight years, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and most other party leaders continue to support even more largesse for the Pentagon. But many progressive congressmembers are...
United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Monday, April 15, 2019 Shifty Corbyn Warned That Labour Party Must Fight Brexit Insanity in May 24 European Parliament Elections or Face Collapse Through Loss of Millions of Younger Voters; Philosophical Doubts About...
The U.S. Congress has begun debate on the FY2020 military budget. The FY2019 budget for the US Department of Defense is $695 billion dollars. President Trump’s budget request for FY 2020 would increase it to $718 billion. Spending by other federal Departments adds over $200 billion to the total...
Here’s a statement it might be hard to disagree with: American war is off the charts. Still, I’d like to explain – but I’m nervous about doing so. I know perfectly well that the next word I plan to write will send most of you tumbling elsewhere in a universe in which "news" is the … Continue...
Should we have a Department of Offense in place of a Department of Defense (DoD)? Wouldn’t “Offense” be more accurate? Perhaps in more ways than one? Consider the revival of “great-power rivalry,” meaning China and Russia as America’s main rivals. (Terrorists may be trouble, but you don’t...
Iran-backed militia attack policemen when refused passage.
The post Militia Attacks Police in Mosul; Eight Killed in Iraq 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
Richard Le Gallienne: The Illusion of War
Richard Le Gallienne: Is this to be strong, ye nations, your vulgar battles to fight?
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Richard Le Gallienne...
Britt G. Hallqvist (1914-1997) var en mångsidig kulturpersonlighet – psalmdiktare, författare och översättare. Jag blev först bekant med hennes namn genom hennes översättning av Tolkiens berättelse om Bilbo. Idag är det den 13 april och påsken börjar snart. Imorgon är det palmsöndag och...
I år släpps det fler superhjältefilmer än det gjort något annat år i historien. Förra året, 2018, kom sex superhjältefilmer, 2019 blir det nästan det dubbla, elva filmer. Vilken roll fyller dessa figurer i våra liv? Enligt en bok som kom 2007 så är superhjältarna våra nya gudar i trikåer...
Israeli elections have come and gone, delivering Benjamin Netanyahu a fifth term that soon will make him Israel’s longest serving prime minister. The toxic rhetoric that defined the weeks-long campaign, with candidates seeking to outdo each other in demeaning Palestinians and dismissing rights,...
For seven years, from the moment Julian Assange first sought refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, they have been telling us we were wrong, that we were paranoid conspiracy theorists. We were told there was no real threat of Assange’s extradition to the United States, that it was all in...
The recent decision by the Hague-based International Court of Justice that the Chagos Islands – with its huge U.S. military base at Diego Garcia – are being illegally occupied by the United Kingdom (UK) has the potential to upend the strategic plans of a dozen regional capitals, ranging from...
Seven were killed in two anti-ISIS operations in Iraq.
The post Security Personnel Clash with ISIS; Seven Killed in Iraq appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.
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Venezuela is facing significant difficulties, and one of the worst is the widespread misinformation spread by governments and media.
Laura Wells and Roger Harris have traveled to Venezuela multiple times to...
United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, April 11, 2019 Amazon Paid Nothing, Got $129 Million Refund on $10.8 Billion Profits; General Motors Got $104 Million Refund on $4.32 Billion; Goodyear, Delta, and 60 Others Also Among the Parasites; Warren...
On Thursday, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested by the UK police inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he was granted political asylum in 2012. This termination of asylum by Ecuador in violation of international law comes a week after WikiLeaks warned the public it had...
On April 11, the ongoing saga of journalist and transparency activist Julian Assange took a dangerous turn. Ecuador’s president, Lenin Moreno, revoked his asylum in that country’s London embassy. British police immediately arrested him – supposedly pursuant to his “crime” of jumping bail on an...
On Monday, President Donald Trump designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization, the first time the United States has designated part of another nation’s government as such a threat. Iran’s Supreme National Security Council responded by declaring U.S. Central Command...
A large-scale operation was launched in the Hamrin Mountains.
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The arrest of Julian Assange adds to the steady erosion of the rights we once took for granted, says Ray McGovern. By Ray McGovern It is a very sad day for the rule of law. Today’s broad-daylight manhandling and kidnapping…
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The current violence targeting Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails dates back to January 2. It was then that Israel’s Public Security Minister, Gilad Erdan declared that the "party is over." "Every so often, infuriating pictures appear of cooking in the terrorist wings. This party is coming...
In tax season, most of us think more about getting our forms in on time – and getting our refunds – than about where our tax dollars actually go. It’s probably no surprise that a significant portion – 24 cents out of every dollar – of your taxes go to the military. But where those … Continue...
Last week, the Foreign Ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries met in Washington, DC. NATO was greeted with bi-partisan support from Congress and by protesters who held actions and events from Saturday, March 30 through their meeting at the US Department of State on...
A tribal leader was killed in the Mosul region.
The post Bomb Targets Tribal Leader and Family; Two Killed in Iraq appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.
Book review. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber
by Ian Sinclair
Peace News
April-May 2019
Originating in a 2013 essay for the radical Strike! magazine, David Graeber’s provocative book is an engrossing, sometimes uncomfortable read.
A Professor of...
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