Speech by Ashley H Given at the Mobilize Against Militarism rally on 9/11/2021 I’m not going to talk about where I was or what I was doing on this day, 20 years ago, because, frankly, it’s irrelevant. Today I’m going … Continue reading Speech from Mobilize Against Militarism
Collection of pieces from Palestine Can’t Breathe – Save Sheikh Jarrah Protest at the Madison Capitol building on 5/15/21 Rally Report By Scot McCullough Approximately 150 people gathered in Madison on Saturday, May 15 in solidarity with Palestinians for a … Continue reading From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will be Free
An interactive poem by Mary Croy Continue reading empire mean time, a poem
By Mark Hackler On July 16, 1945, at 5:29:45 a.m., the Manhattan Project ended explosively when the first atom bomb flashed in the darkness near Alamogordo, New Mexico. This is a difficult day for me, the first of three each … Continue reading Preparing for the End of Civilization: An Air Force Veteran’s Reflections on Nuclear Warfare
By Mark Hackler The Military-Industrial Complex (MIC) is alive and flourishing the U.S. This article looks first at MIC in the U.S., followed by the Military Side of MIC in Madison. Next, the Industrial (Business) Side of MIC in Madison … Continue reading Military Industrial Complex in Madison
By Ben Heili I remember my 14th birthday well. That day, my grandparents’ newspaper told me the USA had started to bomb Afghanistan—Operation Enduring Freedom, they called it. Something in my 14-year-old brain approved of that name at the time, … Continue reading The Afghanistan Papers: Another Blip in the History of a Forever War
By: Allen Ruff The Madison area’s current campaign to stop the stationing of twenty F-35 attack jets at Truax Field/Dane County Airport demands the active support of all socialists. The local and global issues related to the proposed base should … Continue reading Socialists Must Fight the War Machine at Home
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