Son of a WWII veteran and Daughters of the American Revolution member
Cascadia, Pacific Northwest
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As militaries continue to invest in AI and autonomous weaponry, the evidence brought forward by Daniel Hale about the human cost of remote warfare, and the moral injury done to those engaged in it, will only grow in importance.
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Former VP Henry Wallace: “He who trusts in the atom bomb will sooner or later perish by the atom bomb.” He deplored war-inducing “oil rivalries” and rejected “this war-with-Russia talk” as “criminal foolishness.” Truman fired him 8 days after this speech.
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"Endless war produces more corporatism, where the private sector does not exist to provide goods to compete in the free market, but to serve political power and strengthen governmental control over the population. Think of it as welfare for the rich at the expense of the poor."
Think war boosts the economy? That argument hasn't held up since the 1940s. Here's why the "war good for the economy" narrative is pure propaganda:
rumble.com/v7hgma4-no-war-is…
"The proposed $1.5 trillion military budget would mean nearly 70 percent of the total $2.15 trillion discretionary budget is dedicated to war — robbing domestic programs and regulatory agencies of resources they need to function."
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"The $1.5 trillion request comes on the heels of last year’s H.R.1, the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill,” which pushed the annual Pentagon budget over a trillion dollars for the first time while cutting critical services to millions of families."
"What has surprised me is the contrast between the amount of attention this [AI] risk—real, perhaps, but still hypothetical—has received compared to an existential threat that we have been living with for decades, that of nuclear war."
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Dogs and cats use in lab experiments is up under Trump/Kennedy according to the White Coat Waste Project:
MAHA Betrayed “exposes more than $225 million in National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding supporting dog and cat experiments.”
animals24-7.org/2026/09/21/d…
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Trump's announcement that his "Triumphal Arch" will be a command center filled with snipers, drones and stored ammunition--perhaps to be unleashed on us here at home--is landing like a bunker buster bomb. responsiblestatecraft.org/tr…
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I was kicked out of Canada today. Brutal, held over night in a cell. They were going to fly me to Austin Texas but I live in Santa Cruz and I was able to get them to send me to SFO. I was going to speak at my archives at the University of Victoria and attend the book fair.
The U.S. built an enormous surveillance infrastructure in response to 9/11, which has spread into government and private life.
Its benefits remain inadequately demonstrated, while its constitutional and societal costs have become increasingly apparent.
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"The Pentagon praised Hegseth as a 'transformative leader' who has delivered results for the Defense Department."
The agency head makes policy, critics attack it, and the agency's own public relations office is deployed to praise the leader.
thehill.com/homenews/house/6…
25 years of U.S. “war on terror” policies—wars, drone strikes, surveillance, torture, and indefinite detention—have created lasting costs and consequences.
responsiblestatecraft.org/91…
Was the Saudi connection to 9/11 thoroughly investigated or was important evidence deliberately buried?
floridabulldog.org/2026/09/t…
The U.S. government had Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in custody for years, but the methods used to extract information from him helped has made his prosecution much harder.
axios.com/2026/08/27/911-att…
"Europeans have been frightened into supporting larger military budgets, common European debt, weapons for Ukraine and an EU defense structure. They support war in theory as long as Ukrainians are forced to die for it."
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A recent cross-NATO study involving more than 31,000 respondents found that only 27% of Germans, 25% of Italians, 30% of the Dutch, and 33% of Hungarians and Czechs were willing to fight for their own countries.
europa.eu/eurobarometer/surv…