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Columbus Deserves Democracy

How did you choose to spend your Monday night?

Hopefully, you were one of over a hundred people who attended a meeting sponsored by “Our City, Our…

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Who Decides What Is Legitimate? Power, Democracy, and the War on Iran

Democracy is invoked as moral legitimacy in war, while Iran’s authority rests on layered political, religious, and historical foundations.

Democracy, however, is not the…

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Debunked and Confirmed: Myths and Realities from the Iran War

The war on Iran has not merely opened a new military front in the Middle East. It has shattered long-standing myths that have shaped US policy and regional politics for decades. What has…

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Action Alerts

Save Ohio Parks Central Ohio Zoom Meeting

Our next Central Ohio meeting will be held Tuesday, March 3 at 7:00 PM on Zoom.

Please register in advance here:

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/G6uOmcnlSgqfcuBlS4ofTA

After registering, you’ll receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link. This registration will also place the meeting on your calendar as a recurring event for the first Tuesday of every month, so you’ll be set for future Central Ohio meetings as well.

At our February meeting,…

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Imperial Echoes: From Operation Ajax to Operation Midnight Hammer and Operation Epic Fury

“So this is how we get rid of that madman Mossadegh.”

In the summer of 1953, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles reportedly held up a copy of a top-secret plan—Operation Ajax—and made that declaration. The operation,…

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Daniel Ellsberg Speaks to Us as the War on Iran Continues

When Daniel Ellsberg died in 2023, the world lost a unique voice of sanity. Five decades earlier, as a “national security” insider, he had released the top-secret Pentagon Papers to expose the official lies behind the ongoing Vietnam War. From…

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No News Would be Good News on Iran

No matter how hard I try, I can’t seem to not read way too many of the stories about Trump’s Folly, the US and Israel attack on Iran. I fool myself, as I read, thinking I can figure out what the frick they think they are doing, and how this will…

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How Ohio Officials Responded to Trump Bombing Iran

On Saturday, February 28, while most Americans slept, Donald Trump illegally bombed Iran without congressional approval. At least 100 school children were murdered in the attack. Many others died…

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