As Trump Visits Asia, Civil Society in the U.S., South Korea, and Japan Call for Bold Shift in Policy to Avert War in Korea
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, November 6, 2017 Contact: Christine Ahn (310) 482-9333 Jackie Cabasso (510) 306-0119 HONOLULU — Today, hundreds of national civil society organizations
Disarmament Instead of Armament
October 24, 2017, abruesten.jetzt. As agreed in the NATO, the federal government plans to nearly double the armament expenditure to two percent of Germany’s economic
$elling War and Pentagon Expansion in Asia-Pacific
By Bruce K. Gagnon, November 5, 2017, Organizing Notes. Trump touched down in Hawaii on his way to Asia. He was met with protests there
Is the U.S. the Largest Purveyor of Genocide on the Planet?
American policy has deadly consequences for people all over the world. By Jeff Bachmann , October 30, 2017, AlterNet It has been nearly 70
How to Respond When Someone Uses a Vehicle as a Weapon of Terror
by Patrick T. Hiller The use of vehicles as weapons to kill civilians has sparked global fear and attention. Such attacks can be carried out
Tens of thousands rally in Tokyo against Abe’s push to rewrite Article 9
From The Japan Times, November 3, 2017 Tens of thousands of people staged a rally in central Tokyo on Friday to protest Prime Minister Shinzo
100 Years of White Empire Propaganda
Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, November 1, 2017, TruthDig. This week, the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, which promoted giving Palestine to the Jewish
Oh Canada, Why Can’t You Shelter War Resisters?
By David Swanson, November 1, 2017, Let’s Try Democracy. Deb Ellis’ and Dennis Mueller’s film Peace Has No Borders tells the story of U.S. war
Congress Members to Screen Hilarious Antiwar Film in U.S. Capitol
By David Swanson, November 1, 2017, Let’s Try Democracy. Congress Members Jones and Garamendi are going to screen and discuss a hilarious movie mockery of
Illinois State Capitol Hit by War Disease Epidemic
by David Swanson, November 1, 2017 The state capitol of Illinois is ground zero of a contagious outbreak of war fever. The origins, I’m afraid,
Researchers Against the War Machine – The Story of NARMIC
NARMIC wanted to research the power and money behind the defense industry and get this research into the hands of peace activists who were resisting
UN to consider banning the arms race in space
October 31, 2017, Pressenza. On the 30th of October, the First Committee of the UN General Assembly (Disarmament and International Security) approved six draft resolutions,
Statement by Ms. Charo Mina-Rojas at UN Security Council Open Debate on Women, Peace and Security
October 27, 2017, NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security. Mr. President, Excellencies, my Civil Society colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen, Good morning. I bring
America’s “Open Door Policy” May Have Led Us to the Brink of Nuclear Annihilation
It is time to step back and consider who the bully is on the Korean Peninsula, who poses a dire threat to international peace and even to the survival of the human species …
Trump Admin Continues Threats & Provocations Against North Korea, Laying Groundwork for Nuclear War
democracynow.org, October 30 2017. Tensions continue to mount between the United States and North Korea, after U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis’s week-long visit to Asia
U.S. Empire: Not Fade Away
By David Swanson, October 29, 2017, Let’s Try Democracy. I wanna tell you how it’s gonna be. But I really cannot. Prediction is just vastly
Mothers I’ve Met
by Pat Elder, October 28, 2017 More than a hundred mothers have contacted me over the years, alarmed at the relationships their teenaged children were
How Peace Studies Can Help End Wars
By David Swanson Remarks at Peace and Justice Studies Association Conference in Birmingham, Alabama, October 28, 2017. Thank you for inviting me. Can everyone who
Soviet submarine officer who averted nuclear war honoured with prize
Vasili Arkhipov, who prevented escalation of the cold war by refusing to launch a nuclear torpedo against US forces, is to be awarded new ‘Future
By Killing ISIS Fighters Instead of Bringing Them to Justice, We Become as Guilty as Our Enemies
by Robert Fisk, October 27, 2017 from The Independent A profoundly important, unprecedented and dangerous decision has been taken by European leaders in the past few
A Peace Treaty with North Korea — and you can sign it!
Alarmed by the threat of a nuclear war between the U.S. and North Korea, concerned U.S. peace groups have come together to send an open
CIA in Afghanistan: Operation Phoenix Redux?
by Matthew Hoh, October 24, 2017, CounterPunch. These CIA teams in Afghanistan are not just reminiscent of the Operation Phoenix program in Vietnam, the death
Vocabulary of “Veterans’ Day”
by Robert Fantina, October 25, 2017 from WarIsACrime.org As the United States gears up for its annual mourning orgy for dead U.S. soldiers, there are
A New Poor People’s Campaign for Moral Revival
The has emerged from more than a decade of work by grassroots community and religious leaders, organizations and movements fighting to end systemic racism, poverty,
U.S. Troops Think White Nationalism Is A Larger National Security Threat Than Syria, Iraq, & Afghanistan
by Sarah Friedmann, October 24, 2017 from Bustle A new poll conducted by the Military Times revealed that U.S. military troops rate white nationalism a bigger national security threat than
U.S. Troop Deaths in Niger: AFRICOM’s Chickens Come Home to Roost
by Mark B. Fancher from Black Agenda Report, October 18, 2017 “The Trump administration is talking about a potential imminent U.S. military action to hit
Divest From the War Machine: CODEPINK #DivestFromWar Summit in DC
by Annie Windholz, October 26 2017 from Popular Resistance On October 21st CODEPINK launched a #DivestFromWar campaign in Washington D.C. at the Divest from the War
