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Alarmed by the threat of a nuclear war between the U.S. and North Korea, concerned U.S. peace groups have come together to send an open

by Matthew Hoh, October 24, 2017, CounterPunch. These CIA teams in Afghanistan are not just reminiscent of the Operation Phoenix program in Vietnam, the death

by Robert Fantina, October 25, 2017 from WarIsACrime.org As the United States gears up for its annual mourning orgy for dead U.S. soldiers, there are

The  has emerged from more than a decade of work by grassroots community and religious leaders, organizations and movements fighting to end systemic racism, poverty,

by Sarah Friedmann, October 24, 2017 from Bustle A new poll conducted by the Military Times revealed that U.S. military troops rate white nationalism a bigger national security threat than

by Mark B. Fancher from Black Agenda Report, October 18, 2017 “The Trump administration is talking about a potential imminent U.S. military action to hit

by Annie Windholz, October 26 2017 from Popular Resistance On October 21st CODEPINK launched a #DivestFromWar campaign in Washington D.C. at the Divest from the War

By Pat Elder, October 25, 2017. By all accounts, La David was a good man. His friends remember him as a “reliable dad and husband.”

By David Swanson, October 25, 2017, Let’s Try Democracy. Robert Burns and Matthew Pennington of the Associated Press tell us: “U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis

By John LaForge, October 25, 2017. This year’s Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) for its successful

October 25, 2017 WHEREAS, in 2005, the AFL-CIO Convention passed a historic resolution calling for the rapid withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, and an

By David Swanson, October 24, 2017, Let’s Try Democracy. Even as some Democrats are at long last growing frustrated with the lack of actual evidence

By David Swanson, October 23, 2017, Let’s Try Democracy. Let’s read a New York Times editorial from Monday: “The United States has been at war

When he talks about “the best” Americans, John Kelly means dead Americans—specifically, fallen soldiers.

October 21, 2017 From Sputnik News On Wednesday, the US State Department issued a Syria Travel Warning, where it wrote that the Islamic State (commonly

by Tiffany Westry Womack From UAB News  Peace scholars, educators and activists from around the world will gather that the University of Alabama at Birmingham from Oct.

by David Swanson NBC29 WVIR Charlottesville, VA News, Sports and WeatherA new petition, signed by over 8,000 people and just sent to Charlottesville’s City Council,

Much of India’s media spurns a scoop about the son of PM Modi’s right-hand man. Plus, NFL as platform for race politics. From Al Jazeera,

Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s PBS series, “The Vietnam War,” deserves an Oscar for its depiction of the gore of war and the criminality of the warmakers. But it also deserves to be critiqued for its portrayal of the anti-war movement …

Special Report: It turns out that Hillary Clinton was partly correct: President Trump is a “puppet,” but his puppet master isn’t Russian President Putin but

By Farhang Jahanpour, October 16, 2017 From Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research. As was expected, President Trump has decertified Iran’s compliance with the

Sunday, October 15, 2017, Organizing Notes. Economic conversion, defense conversion, or arms conversion, is a technical, economic and political process for moving from military to

by David Swanson, October 15, 2017 From Let’s Try Democracy. Larry Flynt, Your grounds for impeachment #s 2 through 6 (plus that of the paragraph

By Staff, www.veteransforpeace.org October 14th, 2017 Veterans For Peace calls on all members and all peace-loving people to take a stand for peace this Armistice