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by David Vine | May 17, 2017 from TomDispatch Much outrage has been expressed in recent weeks over President Donald Trump’s invitation for a White

“…This I believe to be the privilege and the burden of all of us who deem ourselves bound by allegiances and loyalties which are broader

By David Swanson Just back from a week in Moscow, I feel obliged to point out a few things about it. Most people there still

By David Swanson Vladimir Posner, who spent his youth in the United States, France, and the Soviet Union, and who cohosted a show with Phil

By David Swanson As I was heading off to visit Russia, a friend told me of a friend who knew a Russian school teacher. I

by Bruce K. Gagnon, May 14, 2017, Space4Peace. The recent big victory for South Korean President-elect Moon Jae-in has many people wondering what will happen

By David Swanson Photo by Daily Progress. While I’ve been in Russia trying to make friends, back home in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, a group of

By David Swanson Dmitri Babich has worked as a journalist in Russia since 1989, for newspapers, news agencies, radio, and television. He says that he

Я понимаю, что войны и милитаризм скорее уменьшают нашу безопасность, чем защищают нас, что они убивают, калечат и уродуют взрослых, детей и младенцев, наносят серьёзный

By David Swanson I’ve been in Moscow some days now and have yet to meet an oligarch (although perhaps they don’t identify themselves). I have

By David Swanson I suppose the list is lengthy and includes dancing, comedy, karaoke singing, vodka drinking, monument building, diplomacy, novel writing, and thousands of

By Дэвид Суонсон (David Swanson) On Friday in Moscow I and a group from the United States met with former president of the Soviet Union

By David Swanson, May 12, 2017, Let’s Try Democracy. I attended a meeting in Moscow on Friday with Vladimir Kozin, longtime member of Russia’s foreign

By David Swanson, May 12, 2017, Let’s Try Democracy Now. On Wednesday, I flew out of a New York airport around which armed soldiers in

Officials criticise Trump’s decision to arm YPG units in battle for Raqqa against ISIL as US tries to reassure Ankara. Media with Conscience. The Kurdish

By Robert C. Koehler, Common Wonders. For a journalist — especially one covering government and politics — the most suspicious, least trustworthy word in the

The U.S. mainstream media voiced moral outrage when Russian warplanes killed civilians in Aleppo but has gone silent as U.S. warplanes slaughter innocents in Mosul

https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-hyun-lee-on-prospects-for-peace-in-korea. Hyun Lee is a New York City-based writer and activist. She is a member of the Solidarity Committee for Democracy and Peace in Korea.

By Bruce K. Gagnon, www.space4peace.blogspot.co.uk The unwelcome US deployment of the THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) missile defense (MD) system in Seongju, South Korea

In 2011 David Hookes explored the ethical and legal implications of the growing use of armed, unmanned planes in the ‘war against terrorism’ . By Dr.

Precision Munitions Are Costly, and Used in Growing Numbers by Jason Ditz, January 06, 2017, AntiWar.com. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein has

Authorities in Hanover defuse two bombs, while a third requires special equipment to be neutralised. German authorities are under pressure to remove unexploded WWII bombs

How a growing technology gap between the U.S. and its nuclear-armed rivals could lead to the unraveling of arms control agreements – and even nuclear

By David Swanson As of this writing, 7,269 people in the United States, and rising steadily, have posted messages of friendship to the people of

A protest rally and press conference are scheduled for 6:00 pm, Tuesday, May 9, 2017 at the entrance of the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space