By David Swanson This Fourth of July, U.S. war makers will be drinking fermented grain, grilling dead flesh, traumatizing veterans with colorful explosions, and thanking
By Elizabeth Kucinich, The Hill This month, U.S. congressmen, including Reps. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) and Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), were refused entry into the Gaza Strip
By Samantha Nutt, TED Talks In some parts of the world, it’s easier to get an automatic rifle than a glass of clean drinking water.
By Kathy Kelly, Voices for Creative Nonviolence In the historic port city of Yalta, located on the Crimean Peninsula, we visited the site where
By Rivera Sun The name Helen Keller conjures up, for many people, a deaf-blind-mute girl learning to communicate via sign language. It is a scene
By Winslow Myers Everything on our small planet affects everything else. This interdependence is more a harsh reality than a New Age bromide. A diminishing
From: Democracy Now! One of the world’s longest conflicts appears to be nearing an end after more than 50 years of fighting. Today, Colombian government