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The U.S. should focus on Democracy at home, not in Venezuela

August 13, 2024 Brian Garvey

By Brian Garvey There is now widespread controversy surrounding the Venezuelan presidential election on July 28th. The National Electoral Council says that current President Nicolás Maduro was reelected with a 51% majority. The opposition, led by Maria Corina Machado, claims that its candidate, Edmundo González, […]

Silent Fallout gives voice to Nuclear Victims here in the US

August 7, 2024 Brian Garvey

By Brian Garvey Silent Fallout, a documentary film by Hideaki Ito and narrated by Alec Baldwin, interviews victims of nuclear testing who are suffering serious diseases linked to the by-products of those tests conducted in the 1950’s and early 1960’s. They have battled cancer. They […]

Psy-Op Satan’s Speech on Capitalist Hill

August 7, 2024 Irena Kang

by Raymond Nat Turner Squish, squish, squish of blood-soaked jackboots; Red line—red carpet—coagulated on Capitalist Hill. Sharp-tongued choosey beggar. Ethnic cleanser, Psy- Op Satans’s raw sewage rant ran just over an hour … Prince of Polio/Pharaoh of Famine/Psy-Op Satan Stood serpent-like on Capitalist Hill and […]

Accidental War?

August 7, 2024 Diana Barlow

July 20, 2024 Accidental war With thermonuclear bomb And “launched on warning”? Or preemptive strike Against Many enemies We can take our pick. Annihilation With grave damage to the earth! There’s no going back. Oppenheimer’s? No: It’s Teller’s hydrogen bomb – Worse […]

Radiation safety workers in hazmat suits greet attendees at Be Seriously Scared event, Cambridge, Aug 6, 2024. Photo: Jeanne Trubek/MAPA

Peace Advocates Statewide Remember Hiroshima

August 7, 2024 Jeanne Trubek

In Greenfield, nearly forty activists gathered in the city’s common at 9 am on Tuesday to honor those killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and demand an end to nuclear weapons globally. Central at the rally were banners that stretched more than ten feet in the […]

Hard-a-Starboard!

August 6, 2024 Hoffmann the Organizer

By Hoffmann the Organizer Readers have been responding to my grim articles on war and climate with demands of “What would you do, then, Captain Bummer”? A fair question and one deserving a robust answer. First a recap of our story so far. Yes, we […]

Plymouth Sand Mining

August 6, 2024 Silas Rutherford

Southeastern Massachusetts has become the center of vigorous pushback against sand mining, a globally occurring extractive and environmentally degrading process. Despite being major stakeholders in the issue, locals have largely been kept in the dark by sand mining companies. Plymouth’s finite natural resources are being […]