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Ochs wrote "I Ain't Marching Any More" as American involvement in the Vietnam War was beginning to grow. The song criticizes all of American military history from the perspective of a weary soldier who has been present at every single war since the War of 1812. The chorus notes that "it's always the old who lead us to the war, always the young to fall" and asks whether the price of military victory has been too high. Ochs said of the song that it "borders between pacifism and treason, combining the best qualities of both." He also wrote "the fact that you won't be hearing this song on the radio is more than enough justification for the writing of it."

Darius Charney: Protests Build Momentum for Police Accountability, Reforms to Address U.S. Structural Racism; Cas Mudde: Trump Endangers Democracy with Militarized Response to Nationwide Nonviolent Protests Against Police Violence; Helen Yaffe: Cuba Contains the Coronavirus Pandemic at Home, Shares Their Knowledge Around the World; Bob Nixon: This Week’s Under-reported News Summary.

The big story continues to be the historic public demonstrations against police racism and violence. Hopefully some of what’s being learned is how much overpolicing and violent policing have to do with the so-called war on drugs, which serves as a pretext for much of the harassment of individuals and entire communities of black and brown people. As the federal and many state governments push to force a reopening of the economy—despite the fact that the coronavirus pandemic is far from under control—corporations and Senate Republicans are pushing to ensure that if anyone forced to work or live in conditions made unsafe gets sick, they have no recourse for accountability.

This is the first half of RE's full-hour show "The Third Rail: Radical Climate Change During It All." The clock of climate change is running, but how fast? Now from the far reaches of the world, we have evidence that vast ice shelves in Antarctica can retreat ten times faster than anything we see today. This is credible new science from the Scott Polar Research Institute at Cambridge University. It follows discoveries made from an ice-breaker on the far frozen side of Antarctica. There, advanced drones revealed a record of rapid ice retreat and not that long ago.

Peadar King is director of KMF Productions and presenter / producer of the RTÉ documentary series What in the World? We discuss his latest book.

The number of people living in poverty around the globe could eventually top one billion as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, according to researchers at Kings College London and Australian National University. Those findings were reported in a study released Friday warning that the pandemic is already reducing the total income of the poorest people in the world by about $500 million per day, provoking fears from experts that the planet will face what The Economist called "The Great Reversal" in which progress on ending poverty is set back by 20 to 30 years.

The full name of the book is The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017. Khalidi, a Palestinian-American, is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, and director of the Middle East Institute of Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs. His past books include Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East; The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood; Under Siege: PLO Decisionmaking During the 1982 War; Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East; and numerous others.

You may have heard of 5G. It stands for 5th-generation cellular wireless. In a February 2019 US Senate hearing, the wireless industry was forced to admit they have no safety studies on 5G, and don’t plan to do any. Meanwhile, there are thousands of independent studies concluding that wireless radiation causes biological harm. Despite this, the wireless industry is working with government to deploy 5G. It’s a global, for-profit, human experiment… without our consent. What does it mean? Millions of “small” cell towers will be added to every block (which is a serious privacy concern). Each tower emitting radiation at levels known to cause weakened immunity, cancer, sterility, DNA damage and other harm… especially to our children, who are most at risk.