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By Pat Elder, October 25, 2017. By all accounts, La David was a good man. His friends remember him as a “reliable dad and husband.”

By David Swanson, October 25, 2017, Let’s Try Democracy. Robert Burns and Matthew Pennington of the Associated Press tell us: “U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis

By John LaForge, October 25, 2017. This year’s Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) for its successful

October 25, 2017 WHEREAS, in 2005, the AFL-CIO Convention passed a historic resolution calling for the rapid withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, and an

By David Swanson, October 24, 2017, Let’s Try Democracy. Even as some Democrats are at long last growing frustrated with the lack of actual evidence

By David Swanson, October 23, 2017, Let’s Try Democracy. Let’s read a New York Times editorial from Monday: “The United States has been at war

When he talks about “the best” Americans, John Kelly means dead Americans—specifically, fallen soldiers.

October 21, 2017 From Sputnik News On Wednesday, the US State Department issued a Syria Travel Warning, where it wrote that the Islamic State (commonly

by Tiffany Westry Womack From UAB News  Peace scholars, educators and activists from around the world will gather that the University of Alabama at Birmingham from Oct.

by David Swanson NBC29 WVIR Charlottesville, VA News, Sports and WeatherA new petition, signed by over 8,000 people and just sent to Charlottesville’s City Council,

Much of India’s media spurns a scoop about the son of PM Modi’s right-hand man. Plus, NFL as platform for race politics. From Al Jazeera,

Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s PBS series, “The Vietnam War,” deserves an Oscar for its depiction of the gore of war and the criminality of the warmakers. But it also deserves to be critiqued for its portrayal of the anti-war movement …

Special Report: It turns out that Hillary Clinton was partly correct: President Trump is a “puppet,” but his puppet master isn’t Russian President Putin but

By Farhang Jahanpour, October 16, 2017 From Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research. As was expected, President Trump has decertified Iran’s compliance with the

Sunday, October 15, 2017, Organizing Notes. Economic conversion, defense conversion, or arms conversion, is a technical, economic and political process for moving from military to

by David Swanson, October 15, 2017 From Let’s Try Democracy. Larry Flynt, Your grounds for impeachment #s 2 through 6 (plus that of the paragraph

By Staff, www.veteransforpeace.org October 14th, 2017 Veterans For Peace calls on all members and all peace-loving people to take a stand for peace this Armistice

From Co-Op News Berlin On Friday, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel spoke in an interview with the German editorial team (RND) about a possible rapprochement

By David Swanson, October 13, 2017, Let’s Try Democracy. In The Secure and the Dispossessed, Nick Buxton and Ben Hayes have collected an unflinching survey

by Khalid Qassim, October 13, 2017 From The Guardian I haven’t had food in my stomach for 23 days. The 20 September was the day

by Nicolas J S Davies, October 12, 2017 From Consortium News  The Western media has been awash in speculation as to why, about a year ago, North

What is the relationship between Trump and the military-political system he stepped into? By Robert C. Koehler, October 11, 2017, Common Wonders. Every time Donald