
16 Years of War: Trump Joins Obama & Bush in Using SOTU to Hail “Progress” in Afghan War
February 1, 2018, Democracy Now. On Tuesday night, President Trump became the third president in a row to attempt to put a positive spin on

Peace Legislators Pledge
Candidates for public office in 2018 are making this commitment to the cause of peace. Peace Legislators Pledge Mission Our aim is to advance the

Democrats and Progressives Push US War Machine in Vermont
By William Boardman, February 1, 2018, Reader Supported News. Donald Trump loves the F-35 and so does Burlington City Council – that is the real

Protesters at Waihopai say we’re spying for Trump
Newstalk ZB Staff, January 27, 2018, Newstalk ZB. Protesters say New Zealand’s spies should stop doing US President Donald Trump’s bidding. About 50 people turned

Yemen’s Crisis Belongs to All of Us
By Robert C. Koehler, February 1, 2018 From Common Wonders What’s a little cholera — excuse me, the worst outbreak of this preventable disease in modern history

Trump’s South Korea ambassador pick opposed attacking the North. So Trump dumped him.
“This suggests that the administration is seriously considering … a strike.” By Zack Beauchamp, January 31, 2018, VOX. In his first State of the Union

Hiroji Yamashiro, Okinawan Activist Facing Prison
A friend sent these recent photos of Hiroji Yamashiro, the courageous activist fighting harsh jail sentences in Japan for his protests against the US military

What Military Bashing Teacher Got Right
By David Swanson, January 30, 2018, Let’s Try Democracy. A high school teacher is no longer teaching, and is receiving threats, because of how he

A Treacherous Crossing
By Kathy Kelly, January 30, 2018 From War Is A Crime On January 23rd an overcrowded smuggling boat capsized off the coast of Aden in

Get Your City to Hold Hearing on What It Could Do With the Money That Goes to Militarism
By Henry Lowendorf, U.S. Peace Council What could the city of New Haven do with vast amounts of money freed up by cutting the US

Week of Action to Divest from the War Machine: February 5-11, 2018
World Beyond War is joining with Code Pink to promote a week of actions to divest from the war machine. The War Machine refers to

In Pursuit of Peace and Justice: 100 Peace & Justice Leaders and Models
Introduction By Anthony J. Marsella and Kathleen Malley-Morrison – TRANSCEND Media Service 26 Jan 2018 – The annual memorial holiday on January 15, 2018, celebrating

Undoing the New Deal: Eisenhower Builds an Arsenal of Nuclear Weapons and a Cabinet of Millionaires
Historian Peter Kuznick says that in spite of his famous warning, Eisenhower can be called the father of the industrial-military complex; when he takes

Talk Nation Radio: Ken Hughes on the Pentagon Papers and What Nixon Feared
Ken Hughes is an expert on secret presidential recordings, especially those of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. Hughes has spent two decades mining the Secret

The Post Should Be Viewed By Current Editors Of The Post
David Swanson, January 28, 2018 I was afraid that The Post would give us a Hollywood film version of the publication of the Pentagon Papers and manage

Invitation to Join a United Day of Action Against U.S. Wars at Home and Abroad
Dear Friends of Peace, Social Justice and the Environment, The United States’ policy of destructive endless wars and expensive military interventions has driven our country

CALL TO GLOBAL ACTION AGAINST ILLEGAL U.S. OCCUPATION OF GUANTÁNAMO
www.NoForeignBases.org info@NoForeignBases.org Dear Advocates of Peace, Justice and Peoples’ Sovereignty: The Coalition Against U.S. Foreign Military Bases calls upon peace activists in the U.S. and

Organizing Tips Around the Olympic Truce
Between Feb. 2 and March 25, 2018, the UN has asked for a global Olympic Truce. Both Koreas have agreed, and the United States has

AU summit 30: Should Africa worry about a growing foreign military presence?
By Peter Fabrucius, January 24, 2018 From ISS Africa The United States in particular, but also France, have had a lot of flak for their military presence

SkoolLive Screens Cause Controversy in Arizona and Beyond
By Cooper Hedger and Pat Elder January 24, 2018 Andrea Falcone and Marina Valenzuela were early for Biology class at Perry High School in Chandler,

The US Has Military Bases in 80 Countries. All of Them Must Close.
By Alice Slater, January 24, 2018 From The Nation On the weekend of Martin Luther King Day, Baltimore University fittingly hosted more than 200 activists

The Puerto Rican Island of Vieques: War games, hurricanes, and wild horses
by Denise Oliver Velez, January 21, 2018, Daily Kos. It is hard to believe that an inhabited part of the United States of America was

“Mini-Nukes” Would Promote, Not Deter, the Use of Nuclear Bombs in Conflict
By Gar Smith, January 19, 2018, Truthout. A recently released “pre-decisional draft” of the Pentagon’s 2018 Nuclear Posture Review calls for the development of a new generation

The Ripple Effect Podcast # 151 (David Swanson | War Is A Lie)
David Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is director of WorldBeyondWar.org and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org. Swanson’s books include War Is

Talk Nation Radio: Colman McCarthy on The Post and Teaching Peace
David Swanson, January 23, 2018, Let’s Try Democracy. Colman McCarthy is a former Washington Post columnist, from 1969 to 1997, and the director of The

Pentagon Declares Dominion: Document Carves Up Globe, Warns “Challengers”
Pentagon unveils strategy for military confrontation with Russia and China by Bill Van Auken, January 20, 2018, Gorilla Radio Blog. The Trump administration’s defense secretary,

Way Outside the Choir
By David Swanson, January 23, 2018, Let’s Try Democracy. Having spent years going to events organized by peace groups, at which people tell each other

It’s time we saw economic sanctions for what they really are – war crimes
Saddam Hussein and his senior lieutenants were rightly executed for their crimes, but the foreign politicians and officials who were responsible for the sanctions regime

The Missing Message in the Women’s March
By Cindy Sheehan and Rick Sterling, January 18, 2018, Resumen. The large women’s marches that took place in the U.S. to mark a year of

Standing up to empire: South Korea Slips Off the US Leash
By Dave Lindorff, January 22, 2018, War is a Crime. The mainstream US media, when it comes to the idea of talks between the governments