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By David Swanson, Let’s Try Democracy. When the U.S. public was told that Spain had blown up the Maine, or Vietnam had returned fire, or

WAT has initiated a rolling fast during Ramadan and beyond to lift up the stories of the 41 men detained at Guantanamo Bay Prison.  Starting

By Rev. John Dear, Campaign Nonviolence. While the media and the nation sit transfixed over the Trump scandals and attacks on democracy, those of us

By Johan Galtung, www.transcend.org. Spain is in a process that will take some time, from “España: Una, Grande, Libre” to “España: Una Comunidad de naciones“—“Spain:

By Miko Peled. Reception for Trump w Israel heads of state in Tel-Aviv airport Israel breathes a sigh of relief as trump leaves the region with

Speaking Truth to Empire on KFCF 88.1 Free Speech Radio for Central California, Dan Yaseen interviews Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODEPINK and Global Exchange. Topic

By Robert C. Koehler, Common Wonders. A suicide bomber inflicts hell at a concert hall in Manchester, England that’s full of children, as though that

By Alice Slater This week, the Chair of an exciting UN initiative formally named the “United Nations Conference to Negotiate a Legally Binding Instrument to

By Brian Trautman. The United States is the most militarized and jingoistic nation on earth. Its foreign policy is guided by imperialist militarism, neoliberal capitalism

By Ralph Hutchison.           The Trump Administration’s budget, released Tuesday, May 23, includes a whopping 15% increase for the Uranium Processing Facility bomb plant in

by Kevin Martin and Col. Ann Wright (ret) It is enticing to speculate on what gaffes President Donald Trump might commit at the NATO Summit May

by Anna Pujol-Mazzini  | Thomson Reuters Foundation. “Cluster bombs are banned for a clear reason, because they disproportionately harm civilians.” LONDON, May 23 (Thomson Reuters

By Patrick T. Hiller, Peace Voice. Amidst a range of domestic controversies and the pushback against his agenda and actions, President Trump went back to

Veterans for Peace, UK. Since the turn of the century, our society has prosecuted a long war across a number of countries. The public are

The president announced the package Saturday, but a legal analysis prompted by congressional inquiries warns against it. By Akbar Shahid Ahmed, Huffpost. WASHINGTON ― A

On Tuesday, May 30, at 11:00 am, veterans and supporters will mass at the Lincoln Memorial. Speakers include Veterans For Peace President Barry Ladendorf, Rev.

Iranian President Rouhani’s solid reelection victory clears the way for Iran to continue its efforts to reengage with the global community and expand freedoms domestically,

Protesters against Donald Trump’s policies — from immigration bans to reckless war escalation — will meet on May 23rd at 7:30pm (19:30) in Piazza Bologna, Rome, during Trump’s

By Kingston Reif and Alicia Sanders-Zakre, Arms Control Association. In the first week of historic negotiations on a treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons, more than

By Robert C. Koehler, Common Dreams. “Trump emphasized the need to work together to end the conflict in Syria” . . . and “emphasized his

Eminent historians and activists Adam Hochschild, David Hartsough, Daniel Ellsberg, and Jackie Cabasso gather at the Public Library for a panel discussion on a world

Dear Friends,           With a scandal a day emanating from the White House and tearing at what remains of democracy in this country, it’s difficult

By Scottie Andrew / Correspondent .Alachua County students of all ages will read poems celebrating peace at a poetry reading Saturday, hosted by the Gainesville

by David Vine | May 17, 2017 from TomDispatch Much outrage has been expressed in recent weeks over President Donald Trump’s invitation for a White

“…This I believe to be the privilege and the burden of all of us who deem ourselves bound by allegiances and loyalties which are broader

By David Swanson Just back from a week in Moscow, I feel obliged to point out a few things about it. Most people there still

By David Swanson Vladimir Posner, who spent his youth in the United States, France, and the Soviet Union, and who cohosted a show with Phil

By David Swanson As I was heading off to visit Russia, a friend told me of a friend who knew a Russian school teacher. I

by Bruce K. Gagnon, May 14, 2017, Space4Peace. The recent big victory for South Korean President-elect Moon Jae-in has many people wondering what will happen

By David Swanson Photo by Daily Progress. While I’ve been in Russia trying to make friends, back home in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, a group of