School Days and Grenade Launchers
By Robert C. Koehler, Common Wonders Come on, they aren’t tanks, they’re armored rescue vehicles. And the, uh, grenade launchers would only be used to
Thousands expected to protest alleged drone operations at Ramstein
By Jennifer H. Svan, Stars and Stripes KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — Thousands of peace activists from across Germany and abroad are expected on Saturday to demonstrate
Alternatives to War from the Bottom Up
By Stephen Zunes, Films For Action MORE THAN AT ANY OTHER time in history, a strong case can be made on pragmatic, utilitarian grounds that war
No War 2016 Agenda
Friday and Saturday events will be livestreamed at TheRealNews.com and videos posted there within three days after. There is no more room to register to
The Finger on the Button
By Winslow Myers If we had a nickel for everyone who has muttered some variation on “I worry about Donald Trump’s finger on the nuclear
After Eight Years of Protest of Construction of Naval Base, Gangjeong Villagers Sued by South Korean Navy
By Ann Wright The South Korean Navy filed a civil lawsuit against 116 individual anti-base protesters and 5 groups including the Gangjeong Village Association demanding
US Military Bases on Okinawa are Dangerous Places
By Ann Wright, Remarks at Women Against Military Violence Symposium, Naha, Okinawa As a 29 year veteran of the US Army, I first want to
Next Time Someone Says Nothing Is Made in the USA Anymore, Show Them This
By JP Sottile, AntiMedia Who says nothing is made in the USA anymore? Certainly not the well-heeled denizens of the State Department’s diplomatic corps. And
2016 Keep Space for Peace Week
We are taking orders for our 2016 Keep Space for Peace Week (October 1-8) poster now just before we go to print. We feel this
Beauty Contestants Now for World War, not World Peace
By David Swanson Even within what Dr. King called the greatest purveyor of violence in the world, there used to be one constituency you could
International Fast to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Call of the international groups of fasters We demand nuclear disarmament! We are groups of fasters who have decided to forego nourishment for at
Lessons From Tina, RAF Reaper Drone Operator Who Likens ISIS to the Nazis
By Laurie Calhoun, AntiWar Blog I have been meaning to discuss an article from the 4 May 2016 edition of The Sun for almost a
Lessons for Peace from Back in the USSR
In the early 1980s almost nobody from the United States traveled to the Soviet Union or vice versa. The Soviets wouldn’t let anybody out, and
Poverty, Militarism and the Public Schools
By Robert C. Koehler, Common Wonders What’s the difference between education and obedience? If you see very little, you probably have no problem with the
National Peace Academy at Point of View “…the new geography of hope”
By Dot Maver & Kristin Famula, Kosmos Journal for Global Transformation On April 6, 2016, over 125 people, including six representatives from the National Peace
Has a Bogus Theory of War Kept Obama from Being a Peace President?
Once again, Barack Obama, the world’s most powerful military leader, has propagated an erroneous claim about the origins of war By John Horgan, Scientific American
On June 2nd Remember the Mother’s Day Peace Proclamation
By Rivera Sun, PeaceVoice Every year in May, peace activists circulate Julia Ward Howe’s Mother’s Day Peace Proclamation. But, Howe did not commemorate Mother’s Day
What if Revolution Were More Than a Campaign Slogan?
Learning From Egyptian Revolution By David Swanson What if people in the United States came to understand “revolution” as something more than a campaign slogan
Talk Nation Radio: Sam Husseini on Greatness of Katharine Gun, How to Vote, and Hillary v. Muslims
https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-sam-husseini-on-greatness-of-katharine-gun-how-to-vote-and-hillary-v-muslims Sam Husseini is the Communications director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, whom I have to thank for having found and promoted many
How Dateline NBC Lies About Drones
By David Swanson NBC’s Dateline program aired pro-drone propaganda this week and has posted the video online. Their so-called report purports to be “balanced” and
Cindy Sheehan and David Swanson on War Is A Lie
Peace Fresno event in Fresno, CAVideo by Richard Iyall, board member of Peace Fresno, also with Community Alliance newspaper of Fresno at fresnoalliance.com and of
Case Dismissed for State of the Union Activists: Resistance Continues
By Joy First It was with great apprehension that I left my home near Mount Horeb, WI and flew to Washington, DC on May 20,
Two peace activists arrested in Shannon Airport runway protest against US military use
By John Hedges, anphoblacht THE Galway Alliance Against War has welcomed the “peace action” on Wednesday morning at Shannon Airport in which two peace activists
Air strikes on Isis in Iraq and Syria are reducing their cities to ruins
By Patrick Cockburn, Indpendent Using ground forces keeps civilian casualties to a minimum – but there is a feeling that any means are justifiable to defeat
Veterans For Peace Calls for Nuclear Disarmament in Our Lifetime
Obama at Hiroshima: “We must change our mindset about war itself.” President Obama’s visit to Hiroshima has been the subject of much commentary and debate.
Obama in Hiroshima Paints a Peace Sign on a Bomb
President Obama went to Hiroshima, did not apologize, did not state the facts of the matter (that there was no justification for the bombings there