A comprehensive list of organizations with public databases that track militarism, the arms trade, and violent conflict. Use these to support research, advocacy or any initiative for a demilitarized world. by Taylor O’Connor | 25 August 2023 “The arms race can kill, though the weapons themselves may never be used…by their cost alone, armaments kill …
The 2020 Republican National Convention last week was painful. It was hard to watch the racist filth and lies spewing forth speaker after speaker, all the while witnessing the violence produced by Trumpian rhetoric play out in the streets of America. It got me reflecting on the nature of violence, particularly state violence. I feel …
“What the main drift of the twentieth century has revealed is that the (US) economy has become concentrated and incorporated in the great hierarchies, the military has become enlarged and decisive to the shape of the entire economic structure; and moreover the economic and the military have become structurally and deeply interrelated, as the economy …
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“Beautiful ideals were painted for our boys who were sent out to die. This was the ‘war to end wars.’ This was the ‘war to make the world safe for democracy.’ No one told them that dollars and cents were the real reason. No one mentioned to them, as they marched away, that their going …
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