Peace Activism, the Iraq War, and the New Militarism w/ David Cortright | Ep. 286
David Cortright—one of the world’s leading peace intellectuals—thinks the world is ripe for a new generation of peace activism. David’s a scholar and activist whose life braids through the history of the global peace movement—from being a GI against the Vietnam War, to becoming the head of SANE (The Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy), to co-founding Win Without War.
I’ve been reading his work on peace and antimilitarism since the days of the Iraq War. His new-ish book is the first history of the Iraq invasion I’ve seen that tries to recount events and lessons from the activist perspective. And some of his recent writing, including in the Center for International Policy’s in-house journal, is—like this discussion—worth your time.
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