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By Lawrence S. Wittner Isn’t it rather odd that America’s largest single public expenditure scheduled for the coming decades has received no attention in the

2016 Peace Essay-Response Contest Rules The West Suburban Faith-Based Peace Coalition is once again sponsoring a Peace Essay Contest with a $1,000.00 award to the

If you can get presidential candidates in the Democratic or Republican parties to answer any of these, please let me know. 1. President Obama’s 2017

By Winslow Myers The silence is breathtaking. Not once has a professional journalist raised the question about the issue in all the debates of either

We welcome President Obama’s decision to travel to Cuba for talks with the Cuban government. We undersigned organizations and individuals call on President Obama to

  https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-david-cochran-on-the-abolition-of-war David Carroll Cochran is the author of Catholic Realism and the Abolition of War. He teaches politics and directs the Archbishop Kucera Center

The U.S. drone war program will be examined on Wednesday, March 30, 2016 at 6 pm at a symposium at the University of Nevada Las

By David Swanson, American Herald Tribune U.S. District Judge George Daniels of New York has struck again, ruling that Iran must pay $10 billion to

Δημόσια δήλωση ομάδων αντιρρησιών συνείδησης από την περιοχή της ανατολικής Μεσογείου הצהרת סרבני מצפון ממרחב מזרח הים התיכון We are conscientious objectors from all around

  https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-seth-kershner-on-the-campaign-to-demilitarize-us-schools Seth Kershner is a writer and researcher whose work has appeared in such outlets as In These Times, Sojourners, and Rethinking Schools. He

By David Swanson, American Herald Tribune Scholars have documented the consistent pattern. What makes a country far more likely to be invaded, attacked, “intervened in,”

By David Swanson If the recent spate of anti-drone movies and plays was making you feel warm thoughts about U.S. culture, you’ll want to avoid

By Jackie Cabasso, Den Hague From 1948 – 1956 the United States detonated 67 nuclear weapons test explosions over the Marshall Islands, a tiny nation

Dear Mr. President, Forty-five years ago I was convicted of violating the Selective Service Act. Some time later, after completing my parole and graduating from

By Mari Yamaguchi, Associated Press TOKYO – Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Friday he has decided to temporarily suspend preliminary work on moving a

  What happens when there are endless wars accompanied by militarized policing, spreading racism, erosion of civil rights, and concentration of wealth, but the only

Premiering around the end of March will be one of the best films I’ve ever seen on peace activism: Paying the Price for Peace produced

Each year the Congressional Progressive Caucus releases a weaker and weaker budget proposal. This year they asked for input first. I sent them this and

By David Swanson “Who controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” –Orwell The U.S. government has reached the bottom

By David Swanson Bring spray bottles of pink liquid to military recruitment offices and displays. Spray them. Tell potential recruits: Be all that you can

By Sam Husseini There were some lovely, moving moments in the memorial service of Concepcion Picciotto at Luther’s Place Church on Saturday. Concepcion is known

  https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/one-hour-special-mary-anne-grady-flores-from-jail-on-why-she-protested-killer-drones Mary Anne Grady Flores speaks in this 1-hour special from inside the jail near Syracuse, N.Y., where she has been imprisoned for 6

By Karl Meyer The possibility of war between nuclear armed powers is returning as a real threat to the security of people all over the

By David Swanson A cease-fire, even a partial one by only some of the parties to the war in Syria, is the perfect first step

By David Swanson, American Herald Tribune The U.S. government, from Dick Cheney to Hillary Clinton, told blatant lies about the Iraqi government creating chemical, biological,

By Bill Galvin and Maria Santelli, Center on Conscience & War[1] With the combat restriction for women in the US Armed Forces now lifted, discussion

By Harvey Wasserman, David Swanson, Bob Fitrakis Bernie Sanders’ common sense proposals for dealing with universal health care, college tuition, restoring the infrastructure, confronting poverty