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by Ajamu Baraka, November 21, 2017 From The Dissident Voice We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of

By David Swanson, November 22, 2017, Let’s Try Democracy. Childish oversimplification seems to be spreading throughout public discourse. Maybe it’s the character limits on tweets.

by Michelle Shephard, November 19, 2017 From The Toronto Star These are the stark facts, and the only simple ones, about the situation in Yemen:

by Michael T. Klare, November 19, 2017 From TomDispatch Maybe you thought America’s nuclear arsenal, with its thousands of city-busting, potentially civilization-destroying thermonuclear warheads, was

By Roger Ehrlich, November 9, 2017 From News & Observer Ninety-nine years ago, at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month,

From Russia Times, November 20, 2017 US government’s demand that RT America register as a foreign agent was greeted by loud silence from human rights

By Roger Ehrlich, November 09, 2017, The News & Observer. Ninety-nine years ago, at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month,

by Associated Press, November 18, 2017 Hundreds of people formed a human chain between the United States and North Korean embassies in downtown Berlin during

by Nicolas J S Davies, November 20, 2017 Sixteen years into our seemingly endless state of war since September 11th, a significant body of research is

by Glen T. Martin, President, WCPA, November 20, 2017 Thinkers and activists from India and a number of other counties assembled at O.P. Jindal Global

By David Swanson, November 19, 2017, Let’s Try Democracy. What the hell do I mean I’m against Thanksgiving? Can’t I find something worse to be

Exclusive: The Iraq WMD fiasco wasn’t the only time political pressure twisted U.S. intelligence judgments. In 2007, Israel sold the CIA on a dubious claim

By Marc Pilisuk,  Oct, 24, 2017 During  time of mourning or fear of grave existential threats, the human psyche is quite capable of denying and

by Netfa Freeman, November 10, 2017 From Archive.org This audio file is the presentation by Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) representative Netfa Freeman at the November 5, 2017

From PeacePeople, November 10, 2017 On Friday 10th November, 2017 Pope Francis will grant a Papal Audience to  Religious and Political Dignitaries from around the World,

by John Rees, November 4, 2017 From Stop The War Coalition Zombie foreign policy now dominates the ministries of the Western powers. Out-of-date Cold War

Peoples’ Committee to Free Julian Assange Demonstration to Demand Immediate Release of Wikileaks Founder Saturday, November 18, 2017,   11:30 AM EST Embassy of The United

By David Swanson, November 15, 2017, Let’s Try Democracy. On Tuesday the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing on whether Trump can just up

The proud tradition of athlete activists has always included a critique of US militarism. By Dave Zirin, Novenber 13, 2017, The Nation. NFL public-relations flak

By Alice Slater NATO’s recent provocative decision to build up its military forces across Europe by sending four new multinational battalions to Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia

The late Eduardo Galeano’s forthcoming book, Hunter of Stories, has five or ten sentences on each page — each page a tiny story, their combination

by Susan Glasser, November 13, 2017 From Politico “They want to know if he’s crazy,” said Suzanne DiMaggio, “or if this is just an act.”

UPDATE: Thank you to Paul Ryder for sending news report that moves Seattle Cafe Shooting to the Veterans list. That makes 29 of 82 or

by Pankaj Mishra, November 12, 2017 From The Guardian ‘Today on the Western Front,” the German sociologist Max Weber wrote in September 1917, there “stands

By David Swanson First they tell you what to think the wars are for. They’re for protection from evil enemies, for spreading democracy and human

By David Swanson, World Beyond War   HUNTER OF STORIES The late Eduardo Galeano’s forthcoming book, Hunter of Stories, has five or ten sentences on

by Robert Parry, November 9, 2017 From Consortium News A new United Nations-sponsored report on the April 4 sarin incident in an Al Qaeda-controlled town in Syria