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By Kathy Kelly Before the 2003 Shock and Awe bombing in Iraq, a group of activists living in Baghdad would regularly go to city sites

By David Swanson The world’s two big nuclear militaries are in the same war now in Syria and, if not on opposite sides exactly, certainly

https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-maria-santelli-on-conscience-and-war  Maria Santelli is Executive Director of the Center on Conscience & War, a 75-year old organization founded to provide technical and community support to

During the 2003 Shock and Awe bombing on Iraq, and afterwards, anti-war campaigners with Voices for Creative Nonviolence were encouraging people around the country to

Life is a very jumbled mixture. The pain of it, if you’re awake and thinking, brings into your mind the happiest moments you can remember

By Winslow Myers Another mass shooting in the U.S.; Russia attacking whomever it thinks most threatens Assad; the carnage across vast swaths of the Middle

In a letter to Secretary Carter, Secretary Kerry and CIA Director Brennan, the bipartisan group of Senators urge U.S. officials to cease unsuccessful program and

Hope you are well. You and your colleagues/friends are invited to a free public meeting at the House of Lords on Monday 9th November from 6:30pm

Americans may find Syria a bit confusing. David Petraeus, sainted hero, has proposed arming al Qaeda, organized devil. Vladimir Putin, reincarnated Hitler, is bombing either

By NicolasDavies – WarIsACrime.org To listen to the Republican candidates’ debate last week, one would think that President Obama had slashed the U.S. military budget

Campaigners aim to prosecute British state On 1st October campaigners will begin a new and ambitious project to institute a citizen’s prosecution of the Government

By David Swanson When I wrote War Is A Lie in 2010 (second edition coming April 5th!) it was a condemnation of war, but not

Stop Drones Surveillance & Killing No Missile Defense No to NATO End Corporate Domination of Foreign/Military Policy Convert the Military Industrial Complex Deal with climate

That little smoke-filled room where our despair and paranoia incline us to imagine a small number of evil people run the world clearly forgot to

https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-an-actually-great-candidate  Mike Ferner is a candidate for mayor of Toledo, Ohio. See http://www.mikeferner.com Mike Ferner grew up in rural Ohio, working on farms much of

Via Stop The War Coalition Explosion from Saudi airstrike on Sanaa, Yemen. Letter to The Guardian signed by Mark Rylance, Charlotte Church, Len McCluskey, Caroline

By David Swanson The United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals don’t just ignore the fact that development isn’t sustainable; they revel in it. One of

By Joy First The voices of the people are not being heard as we are increasingly denied access to our government officials.  For many, we

After 25,000 people asked, Senator Bernie Sanders added a few words to his presidential campaign website about the 96% of humanity he’d been ignoring. He

By Alice Slater The stirring condemnation of nuclear weapons by Pope Francis today at the United Nations and his call for their prohibition and complete

 During this year’s competition for Miss Italy, contestants were asked what historical epoch they might like to have lived in and why. The first young

By David Rothauser Sixty –eight years ago they gave peace and nobody listened. In 1947 a peace constitution was born, but nobody noticed. Sixty-eight years

I lack patience. I admit it. There’s my confession. I couldn’t sit through the Pope’s slow and plodding and polite speech to Congress, waiting for

Q. AND A. WITH FRANCIS A. BOYLE ON BIOWARFARE By Sherwood Ross Francis A. Boyle is a leading American professor, practitioner and advocate of international

As documented in Douglas Blackmon’s book, Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, the institution