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AUG. 2, 2017, reposted from the New York Times. To the Editor: Re “A Threat to Nuclear Arms Control” (editorial, July 30): You rightly warn

By Thomas Knapp, August 1, 2017, OpEdNews. “U.S. foreign military bases are the principal instruments of imperial global domination and environmental damage through wars of

During each of 20  trips to Afghanistan, Kathy Kelly, as an  invited guest of the Afghan Peace Volunteers, has lived alongside ordinary Afghan people in

During each of 20 trips to Afghanistan, Kathy Kelly, as an invited guest of the Afghan Peace Volunteers, has lived alongside ordinary Afghan people in

By Robert C. Koehler, August 1, 2017. I knew there was a war on against cancer and, oh yeah, drugs, illiteracy, poverty, crime and, of

By Bruce K. Gagnon, July 31, 2017, Organizing Notes. Activists in South Korea were excited and fairly optimistic that the election of liberal President Moon

By Ellen Taylor, July 12, 2017, Eureka Times-Standard. Reposted July 31, 2017. I read an article once about a man on a safari in Africa

By Douglas Roche, July 29, 2017, The Globe and Mail. Douglas Roche is a former senator and a former Canadian ambassador for disarmament and honourary

Unity Statement We, the undersigned peace, justice and environmental organizations, and individuals, endorse the following Points of Unity and commit ourselves to working together by

By George Lakey, July 28, 2017, Waging Nonviolence. Movement manuals can be useful. Marty Oppenheimer and I found that out in 1964 when civil rights

By Laurel Wamsley, July 27, 2017, NPR The Two Way. At a security conference in Australia on Thursday, this scenario was posed to the commander

By David Swanson, July 28, 2017, American Herald Tribune. Both houses of Congress have now passed big new sanctions bills by veto-proof majorities, in fact

As national Democrats claim the mantle as the more hawkish party — and President Trump panders to the Saudi-Israeli tandem — House Republicans moved to

By David Swanson If war were moral, legal, defensive, beneficial to the spread of freedom, and inexpensive, we would be obliged to make abolishing it

Middle East Eye. Iraqi soldiers got a brutal, final order in the last days of battle with IS – kill anything that moves. The results

By David Swanson, July 26, 2017, Let’s Try Democracy. Yes, I’m going to tell you what’s missing from this film without watching the film. Trump

By Helena Cobban, July 25, 2017, Just World Educational. Edo Konrad, writing in +972 magazine yesterday, remarked upon two things that I had also noticed

By David Swanson, July 25, 2017, Let’s Try Democracy. Donald Trump uses backdrops formed by crowds of boy scouts or soldiers. Progressive Democrats use documents

VIDEO from Incheon Airport Press Conference Dear Supporters of the Task Force to Stop THAAD in Korea,  Thank you to everyone who responded to the

In a memo to President Trump, a group of former U.S. intelligence officers, including NSA specialists, cite new forensic studies to challenge the claim of

FightBack News, July 24, 2017 Minneapolis, MN – In response to the ever-escalating series of U.S. wars and interventions around the world, over 60 people

By Christine Ahn, www.truth-out.org, July 22nd, 2017 Two years ago, I crossed the world’s most fortified border from North to South Korea with 30 women

A photographer who covered the war in Iraq appreciates how threats can come to seem routine. By Ashley Gilbertson, July 21, 2017, ProPublica. COLFAX, Louisiana —