Steve Ellner is a retired professor of the Universidad de Oriente in Venezuela and currently an Associate Managing Editor of Latin American Perspectives. He is the author and editor of over a dozen books on Latin American politics and history, his most recent being his edited Latin American Extractivism:
Video: Global NATO – All Countries Are Affected By NATO
If NATO were an entity you were allowed to thing rationally about, its behavior as a global terrorist gang would make it seem like a global terrorist gang
Outgrowing Religion, Nationalism, and Militarism
Remarks to Phoenix Humanist Society, January 24, 2021
Whether humanism means atheism, or a commitment to questioning all accepted beliefs, or an identification with all of humanity rather than a small sub-group, or a celebration and promotion of all the richness of human culture, I’m in favor of it, and it has a great deal to do with the project I work
Only Rogue States Have Nuclear Weapons
By David Swanson, Executive Director of World BEYOND War, and Elizabeth Murray, of Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action, published by Kitsap Sun, January 24, 2021
From January 18 to February 14, four large billboards are going up around Seattle that proclaim “Nuclear Weapons Are Now Illegal. Get them out of Puget Sound!”
What can this possibly mean? Nuclear weapons may be unpleasant, but what is illegal about them, and how can they be in Puget Sound?
Since 1970, under the Nuclear
David Swanson on Joe Biden’s Dangerous Cabinet Appointments
Pope’s Words in Open Letter to Joe Biden
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, January 22, 2021
Dear President Joe Biden,
Congratulations and best wishes!
The Pope of your church in October 2020 wrote these words:
“We can no longer think of war as a solution, because its risks will probably always be greater than its supposed benefits. In view of this, it is very difficult nowadays to invoke the rational criteria elaborated in earlier centuries to speak of the possibility of a ‘just war’. Never again war!”242
At footnote 242, Pope Francis
I was on KPFA re Blinken
Speaking Truth to Empire
Changing of The Guard; America’s Economic Forecast; Biden Tackles Immigration
David Swanson, activist, journalist, radio host and author of the book “Curing Exceptionalism,” joins us to discuss American exceptionalism and militarism. How should we be looking at today’s inauguration and what can we say about the soul of America?
Jack Rasmus, economist, radio show host & author of ‘The Scourge of Neoliberalism: US Economic Policy from Reagan to Trump,” joins us to discuss America’s economic path forward and what
AUDIO: I discussed Blinken with Paul DeRienzo on WBAI
Audio re Blinken 17:45 – 21:41