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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

Offering to talk while threatening military force hasn’t worked in 30 years. By Gareth Porter, January 12, 2018, The American Conservative. With his recent “my

By Haley Pedersen and Jodie Evans, January 11, 2018 From Alternet The Trump administration will soon announce its next move in the ongoing assault on diplomacy and

From Global Zero, January 11, 2018 In the final weeks of the presidential election, we sounded our alarm over Donald Trump’s fitness to serve as

There’s no reason to start a devastating war when nonmilitary options are working. By Ruben Gallego, Ted Lieu, January 10, 2018, Foreign Policy.   Edward

More than 100 years after it was invented, Esperanto is spoken by relatively few people. But the internet has brought new life to this intriguing,

by H. Patricia Hynes, January 9, 2018, AntiWar.com. My nephew, an Army veteran who spent most of his 20 plus years military service as an

By David Swanson, January 9, 2018, Let’s Try Democracy. The nonprofit organization World Beyond War has put up a billboard in Baltimore stating that “3%

Event title: “To the Abe Administration: Stop Enflaming the US-North Korea Crisis” It is good to see that there has been progress recently in terms

By Nick Turse, January 9, 2018 From TomDispatch If you want to know something about life in America these days, consider how New York Times columnist

by Patrick T. Hiller, January 10, 2018 The world is a month away from the PyeonChang 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea. My friends in

By David Swanson, January 9, 2018 The nonprofit organization World Beyond War has put up a billboard in Baltimore stating that “3% of U.S. military spending could

Jim Paul for 19 years was the exzecutive director of Global Policy Forum and was chair of the NGO working group on the UN Security

By Ben Norton, January 8, 2018 From Fair.org For the popular US cable news network MSNBC, the largest humanitarian catastrophe in the world is apparently not

By Mike Stone and Matt Spetalnick, January 8, 2018 From Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration is nearing completion of a new “Buy American”

By Pete Shimazaki Doktor, January 7, 2018, Standard Advertiser. I returned recently from a delegation of U.S. military veterans to Okinawa, to witness the devastation

By William Boardman, January 6, 2018, Reader Supported News. Korean détente puts decades of failed, corrupt US policy at risk few gestures of mutual respect

by Amanda Trejos, January 4, 2018, USA TODAY. Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador are plagued by chronic poverty and violence that have sent a flood

“It is time for Pakistan to delink from the U.S.,” said Pakistani politician Imran Khan, a long-time critic of American drone program by Jake Johnson,

By Jacob Hornberger, January 4, 2018, MWC News. It just might be that the two Koreas are figuring out a way to avoid war, much

by Christopher Black and Graeme MacQueen, January 4, 2018 From The Star Donald Trump has now informed the world that he has a bigger nuclear

by Rebecca Kheel, January 4, 2018 From The Hill The United States and South Korea have agreed to delay an annual joint military exercise that

Silvio Carillo is an Oakland-based freelance multimedia journalist, director of the website BertaCaceres.org and nephew of Berta Cáceres, a Honduran activist who was assassinated there

From Ploughshares Fund Can the values of an ancient Greek tradition be applied to the current crisis on North Korea? Yes, according to the United

by Lawrence Wittner, January 1, 2018, War Is a Crime. During the mid-1930s, a best-selling exposé of the international arms trade, combined with a U.S.

by Kathy Kelly, January 1, 2018, War is a Crime. People living now in Yemen’s third largest city, Ta’iz, have endured unimaginable circumstances for the