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Yemen is at the center of the world’s worst, man made humanitarian disaster. Over 10,000 people have died from the conflict, 1 million people are

22 January 2018 Shannonwatch strongly condemns the facilitation of a meeting between US Vice President Mike Pence and US troops at Shannon Airport on Saturdaylast. The

By Ann Garrison, January 19, 2018 From Counterpunch Late last year, a divided Congress approved a military spending bill of 700 billion dollars, more than either

As sixteen delegates representing peace movements from all over the world, we have traveled from Asia, Pacific, Europe, and North America to convene the Vancouver

By Winslow Myers, January 15, 2018. In my judgment as an interested citizen, there is a breathtaking degree of denial and illusion in the world

By Jesse Johnson, January 16, 2018 From Japan Times  The U.S. Air Force announced Tuesday that it has deployed six of its powerful B-52 strategic

By Anita Hofschneider, January 17, 2018 From CivilBeat When Esme Yokooji saw the alert Saturday that a missile was heading to Hawaii — complete with huge

by Bruce Gagnon, January 16, 2018, Organizing Notes. We are on the train from Baltimore heading back to Boston.  Then we hop on a bus

by Mike Byrne, January 15, 2018, Medium. Today is Martin Luther King Jr. day, and on a day where people often discuss his dreams, they

By Will Griffin, January 16, 2018, The Peace Report. This past weekend I attended a historic groundbreaking conference in Baltimore, organized by the Coalition Against

Emanuel Pastreich (Director The Asia Institute) Nov 8th, 2017, The Peace Report. Watching the speeches of President Donald Trump and President Moon Jae-in in Seoul

Coming up on Valentine’s Day we’ll have a special treat for those who love our planet.   The makers of the film “The World Is My

World Beyond War joins with Just World Educational in promoting Earth Day events for on or about April 22, 2018, that will challenge the greatest

By David Swanson The new poor people’s campaign should get every ounce of support we can find and generate. I say that without the qualifications

Jackson Lears is the Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University. Lears is the editor of the journal Raritan: A Quarterly Review. His

By Joy First, January 15, 2018 As I entered my jail cell at Capitol Police Headquarters in Washington, DC, I sat down on the cold

By Elliot Swain, January 15, 2018 On January 13-15, 2018, a conference in Baltimore on US foreign military bases brought together anti-war voices from all

by Mohammad Imran, January 15, 2018, DAWN. The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday restored the First Information Report (FIR) against former CIA station chief

By Brian Terrell, January 14, 2018 From War Is A Crime On Thursday, January 11, the sixteenth anniversary of the opening of the US military

By David Swanson, January 15, 2017, Let’s Try Democracy. It was convenient for the teaching moment that James Risen just recounted the New York Times’

By David Swanson, January 15, 2017, Let’s Try Democracy. Nazi rallies in the news in recent years have most prominently been held here in Charlottesville,

By Lawrence Reichard, January 14, 2018 From Bricks and Mortars, Belfast (Maine) Republican Journal The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is systematically destroying the country and

By David P. Barash, January 14, 2018 From The Guardian and Aeon In his classic The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy (1989), Lawrence Freedman, the dean of British

by Kathy Kelly, January 13, 2018, Voices for Creative Nonviolence. January 11, 2018 marked the 16th year that Guantanamo prison has exclusively imprisoned Muslim men,

Remarks at No Foreign Bases Conference, Baltimore, MD, January 13, 2018 by David Swanson, January 13, 2018, Let’s Try Democracy. I get to introduce three