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Private Security Firms; just part of doing business, right? Blackwater was America’s version in Iraq; The Wagner Group is Russia’s today in Ukraine and Africa. Atrocities in the Donbass region of Ukraine? Russia cynically said, that’s not us, it’s “little The post Outsourcing War: Making Atrocities Invisible By The Wagner Group appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy...

All refugees lives are threatened equally, so why are Ukrainians handed the welcome mat as it is denied to most others? On this show, Columbia University Professor and co-author Helen Benedict shares what she’s found in the new book Map The post Only Refugees Who Look Like Us Are Welcomed. appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

You’ve heard of the famous Christmas Truce of 1914 between the trenches of the British and German soldiers. These were indeed brave men. But that was not the only such event: there were desertions, mutinies, and fraternizations. Today it seems The post The Christmas Truce of 1914: Not So Isolated appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Of all the motivations for war, nostalgia is at the top. Restoring lost glory. We see it not only in Putin’s Russia but in many former empires. Nostalgia is a factor in racist nationalist bloodletting everywhere. On this show History The post The Danger of Nostalgia appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

With renewed interest in the first world war, November 11 is celebrated as the end of “the war to end all wars.” But in reality it was a peace that ended peace. The German negotiators at that famous train car The post 11/11 Armistice? Germans Ambushed, A Peace That Ended Peace appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Like all bad habits, war is a tough one to break. On this show, Professor Emeritus Lawrence Wittner explains that respecting, listening, and helping people in other countries is a lot more economically conservative and accomplishes security much more effectively. The post Are Alternatives to War Really Realistic? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Private Security Firms; just part of doing business, right? Blackwater was America’s version in Iraq; The Wagner Group is Russia’s today in Ukraine and Africa. Atrocities in the Donbass region of Ukraine? Russia cynically said, that’s not us, it’s “little The post Outsourcing War: Making Atrocities Invisible appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast &...

Of all the motivations for war, nostalgia is at the top. Longing for an imagined glorious past. We see it not only in Ukraine but in many former empires, like France. And this nostalgia plays itself out in racist nationalist The post The Murderous Power of Imperial Nostalgia appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

There are concentric circles: innermost being the destruction of Ukraine. But the increased insecurity of so many essential factors as a result of the war is starting to disrupt and bring increased misery to the poor of the world. On The post The Worldwide Effects of the Ukraine War appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Why does it have to be us or them? Bush II tried to use Iraq to force nonaligned nations to choose; it failed. And it’s not working today on Ukraine. Why do so many nations still insist on not choosing The post Ukraine War: Trying to Bifurcate a Non-Aligned World appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

One generation held the book and the author in reverence. And with Tom Roston’s new book The Writer’s Crusade and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse Five a new generation is discovering the unique importance of Vonnegut’s vision or war and The post Horror and Absurdity: Revisiting Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast &...

Clearly not his intention, but with his assault on Ukraine might Putin actually be decapitating his worldwide far right? Guest John Feffer director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies  in an article titled “Will Ukraine The post Is Putin Writing the Far Right’s Epitaph? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Breaking the mold of powerlessness happens, in the US Senate and in our neighborhoods. On the first segment Political Science professor and author Ron Feinman points to six little known US Senators who courageously stood up against war and injustice. The post Courageous Movement for Change That Works appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Both establishment parties are competing to be toughest on the Ukraine crisis. But the fact is America’s founders were solidly non-interventionist. Our constant search for new monsters to destroy; where has that gotten us? More peace and justice? Our republic The post Ukraine: A Conservative Take appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

A dangerous addiction to war is a result of what our guest retired Lt Col. William Astore calls victory disease. He actually served at the nuclear trigger under 2000 feet of granite. Reagan fired up the desire for conquest, but The post New Cold War Same as the Old One appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

He voted against one thing that can actually address what he says is the problem. Where once men felt pride in what they contributed to family and community as sole breadwinners, that is gone. The anxiety is real.  In her The post Josh Hawley And The Republican Obsession with Manliness appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

You’ve heard of the famous Christmas Truce of 1914 between the trenches of the British and German soldiers. These were indeed brave men. But that was not the only such event: there were desertions, mutinies, and fraternizations. Today it seems The post The 1914 Christmas Truce: Powerful, Brave, and Not So Isolated appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

You’ve heard of the famous Christmas Truce of 1914 between the trenches of the British and German soldiers. These were indeed brave men. But that was not the only such event: there were desertions, mutinies, and fraternizations. Today it seems The post The Christmas Truce of 1914: Powerful, Brave, Not So Isolated appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

It’s easy to be all for cutting “waste” in the Pentagon budget but that enables continuing plans to spend 7.5 trillion over ten years. And on what? Could shoveling money to the military make us less secure? On this show The post Slice A Trillion From Defense: Bring Greater Security? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

They’ve save countless human lives in many wars. Military working dogs have a new monument at the Navy Memorial in Washington DC and it’s about time. Dogs are an essential asset deserving recognition. On this show first up is 20 The post Remembering the Dogs on Veterans Day appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

It’s not like displaying a large red cross protects doctors from attack anymore. Yesterday’s Covid heroes are today vilified by some. Across the globe, health care workers have become routinely targeted. For example in Myanmar, since it is not an The post From Heroes to Targets: Medical Workers Under Attack appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

With violence so deeply embedded into America’s foreign policy, it’s become invisible. But who does it harm more; us of them? On this show global religion teacher and author Kelly Denton-Borhaug says it is time to grow up and face The post The Harmful Naivete of A Foreign Policy of Violence appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

They’re doing it again. Remember the Peace Dividend after Vietnam? Right, it never happened. Now with another war finally ended, here we are again. On this show, retired USAF Lieutenant Colonel William Astore says the amount of money shoveled to The post Even When It Loses, the Pentagon Wins appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

It’s so easy for the national security state to just paint the same old picture for Americans: Russia and China are military threats. But in truth they are not. They are rising economically in large part because we have wasted The post Must We Do the Cold War Again? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .