The Failure of America’s Trillion Dollar War Machine by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the United States spent $21 trillion on its military between 2001 and 2024 (in constant 2024 dollars), equal to the combined military spending of the next eighteen countries. Iran barely made that list at all, spending only 2% of what the US did, and SIPRI estimated Iran’s [...]
Has Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega really abolished elections? by Richard Balzano, The New Hampshire Gazette https://popularresistance.org/ortega-elections-and-the-context-western-media-wont-print/ “Crackdown.” “Democratic backsliding.” “Authoritarian grip.” Journalists persecuted, opposition parties crushed—and now, according to the latest eruption from the Western press, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has abolished elections. The peripheral left offers another interpretation: Ortega is preventing U.S.-backed political organizations implicated in subversion from participating in elections, while Nicaragua has restricted media organizations with subversive ties to [...]
by Free Speech Radio & Fair Elections Coalition https://www.mightycause.com/story/FSFE DISCLAIMER: This is not an official Pacifica Foundation, Inc. communication nor an official communication of any of the five Pacifica Foundation, Inc. Radio Stations (KPFA, KPFK, KPFT, WBAI, WPFW). Opinions and facts alleged belong to the author(s) only and should NOT be assumed to be true or to reflect the editorial stance or policy of the Pacifica Foundation, Inc., or any of the [...]
© by Mumia Abu-Jamal https://www.prisonradio.org/commentary/normalizing-troops-in-u-s-streets/ People always criticize the Congress, at least the Republicans in Congress for being too supine, and too prostrative when it comes to the president. Well, I don't think it's fair to charge just one branch of the government. We live in a country where the Supreme Court, which is the highest judicial power in the US, essentially gave unlimited power and immunity to the president on the [...]
©July 2025 by Mumia Abu-Jamal https://www.prisonradio.org/commentary/the-death-of-pensions/ With the judicial seal of approval of the United Airlines plan to ditch its pensions, comes another battle in the long war of capital against labor. By this attack on those who have spent their lives making the fortunes of United, the business community opens yet another front in their rapacious war to gain more and more profits. Now, thousands of disenfranchised workers must turn to [...]
An invitation to join. . . THE IDA B. WELLS MEDIA DEFENSE COALITION As an ad hoc group of Pacifica program producers and other community media advocates, we have been meeting via Zoom for several months to talk through current events and take meaningful collective action against the destructive forces around us. The Trump Administration has targeted media platforms where liberal and progressive voices share information (newspapers, radio, television, college, and the [...]
https://lapublicpress.org/2025/06/police-violence-against-protesters-journalists-cost-la/ Attorneys describe it as some of the worst such violence they have seen, much against journalists. The Los Angeles Press Club is suing the city. Excerpt: The LA Press Club documented at least 50 incidents of alleged police misconduct that led to injuries to reporters in LA since June 6, including at least five journalists being struck by 40mm less-lethal rounds, and journalists being charged at by mounted police. Jeremy Cuenca, a reporter [...]
Story by Hossam Shabat, murdered by Israel shortly after filing this story to Drop Site news BEIT HANOUN, GAZA—The night was dark and cautiously quiet. Everyone fell into an anxious sleep. But the tranquility was quickly shattered by deafening screams. As the bombs rained down, the wails of neighbors announced the first moments of the resumption of Israel’s military campaign. Beit Hanoun was plunged into panic and terror. Cries of distress rose [...]
One Struggle, Many Fronts - Uniting the Many to Defeat the Few! by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles (ARA-LA/PART) https://antiracist.org Just over a month in power, the Trump-Vance-Musk regime and its acolytes and minions are continuing their rapid-fire and relentless assaults on labor, immigrants, Black, Indigenous, Raza, and Asian-Pacific Islander people, women, LGBTQIA+ people, public health, education, freedom of speech and the press, the environment, and international solidarity, while encouraging other fascist [...]
The International community faces the loss of a critical media stronghold of free speech. The Pacifica Foundation, Inc. is a non-commercial, educational radio broadcasting network comprising five FCC licensed FM radio stations. It began in 1949 as a registered California non-profit for public good, providing a uniquely independent platform for news, education and the arts. Its origin as a pacifist organization promoting peace can be found at: https://www.britannica.com/topic/pacifica-radio In recent years Pacifica [...]
by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action Los Angeles I agree with Steve Edinger about the warmongering and imperialist nature of the Democratic Party, the Biden-Harris administration, and the Harris-Walz campaign, and the threat Democratic Party forces pose to Pacifica. But to see the Republican Party, or figures like Marjorie Taylor Greene as legitimate opponents of war or intervention, or worthy of our support, is a dangerous illusion. As Steve himself acknowledges, only 21 [...]
In a bold but years-belated move, Pacifica Foundation radio station KPFK-90.7 FM, finally conducted a participatory live event of the October 23, 2024 Third Party Presidential Debates, produced and sponsored by “Free & Equal.org”. Pacifica Foundation's national radio network, boasts a mission statement and bylaws that promote support for all voices to be heard and global conflict resolution toward a peaceful planet. Sadly however, words can be real on paper to be [...]
