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By Terry Crawford-Browne, February 18, 2018 Afro-pessimists were astounded when in 1994 South Africa triumphed relatively peacefully over apartheid. The world had expected a racial

From the Afro-Middle East Centre, February 19, 2018 At the establishment of the African Union (AU) in May 2001, discourses about human security and counter

By Terry Crawford-Browne, February 19, 2018 Sanctions against apartheid South Africa are, in the opinion of the writer, the only instance when sanctions have achieved

By David Swanson, February 17, 2018 Dear Taliban, Thank you for your letter to the American people. As one person in the United States I

By Pat Elder, February 16, 2018 Nikolas Cruz, the south Florida shooter, was enrolled in the Army’s Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (JROTC) program as

By David Swanson, February 15, 2018 35% of U.S. mass shooters are military veterans, as compared with 14.76% in the general population for the same

By David Swanson, February 14, 2018 Anna Baltzer’s amazing book Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories has been updated over the years,

By Bob Koehler, February 14, 2018 From Common Wonders It’s so easy to paper over the real American security void with verbiage about strength vs.

By Gareth Porter, February 9, 2018 From TruthDig The agreement for cooperation between North and South Korea on the Olympics provides a pause in the

Veterans For Peace completely condemns the Trump Administration’s plans for a military parade later this year. We call on all people who believe in our

Christine Ahn is Founder and International Coordinator of Women Cross DMZ, women mobilizing for peace in Korea. She is a writer and organizer working for

by Marc Eliot Stein, February 8, 2018 Garry Davis was a young Broadway actor in 1941, an eager understudy for Danny Kaye in a Cole

By David Swanson, February 8, 2018, Let’s try Democracy. A video has shown up on Senator Bernie Sanders’ Facebook page, with his name on it

By David Swanson, February 6, 2018, Let’s Try Democracy. Fred Warmbier, whose son Otto Warmbier, a student here at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville,

In Trump’s State of the Union he proposed building more nuclear weapons to counter “rivals” who “challenge” U.S. “values.” The Pentagon’s new Nuclear Posture Review

Both parties line their pockets with profits from the arms trade. By Medea Benjamin, Elliot Swain, February 5, 2018,  AlterNet. In recent budget negotiations, Senate

A damning outside review finds that the Defense Logistics Agency has lost track of where it spent the money. By Bryan Bender, February 5, 2018,

By Maya Evans, Voices for Creative Nonviolence UK Over the last 5 years, UK anti-drone campaigning activities have included entering the drone control base at

by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, February 5, 2018, via Global Research. This week, following the recent announcement of a new National Defense Strategy that

Ten Commonsense Suggestions for Making Peace, Not War By William Astore, February 5, 2018, TomDispatch.com. Whether the rationale is the need to wage a war

But will it last—and can it rein in Trump’s dangerous saber rattling? By Tim Shorrock, February 1, 2018, The Nation. On February 9, in a

By Elliott Adams, February 3, 2108, War is a Crime. Short talk at Poor People’s Campaign, Detroit, 26 Jan 2018 Let me talk about war.

By Ann Wright, February 2, 2018. Are you ready for nuclear attack warning sirens in your community?  I live in Hawaii and the State of

By David Swanson, February 2, 2018, from Let’s Try Democracy. Did you hear the one about the “safe, secure, and effective nuclear deterrent”? There is,