The forthcoming film, A Bold Peace: Costa Rica’s Path of Demilitarization, should be given every possible means of support and promotion
“Your plan is to compete with Meet the Depressed and such shows by imitating them?”
Military spending is now 54% of U.S. federal discretionary spending
The number one error, engaged in by the majority of people, is failing to be an activist
Populist agendas tend to emerge in times of demobilization for election distraction
What yanked those killers out of a war and into a society under the rule of law? People in Baltimore standing up and acting
The real question is not whether the next President will be a walking disaster, but what sort of popular movement will have been developed to resist it
Most people in the United States have no idea of the suffering that war brings
How did the U.S. government get from there to a “Homeland Security Department” that trains local police to consider protesters to be terrorists?
The United States bombs nations in the name of democracy, yet has one of the least democratic and least functioning of the states calling themselves democracies
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