By Brett Wilkins, July 18, 2019 From Common Dreams Five of the 24 men sentenced last week by an Italian court to life in prison for their roles in a brutal and bloody U.S.-backed Cold War campaign against South American dissidents graduated […]
By David Swanson, July 10, 2019 By “the Obama wars” I don’t mean some overgrown infants on television screaming racist insults or pretending that opposing racism requires cheering for Obama. I mean: the widespread indiscriminate murder of human beings with […]
By Lois Lindstrom, June 29, 2019 “War Is A Lie” by David Swanson is a thorough refutation of every major argument used to justify wars, drawing on evidence from numerous past wars, with a focus on those that have been […]
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J S Davies, June 17, 2019 From Common Dreams While the mystery of who is responsible for sabotaging the two tankers in the Gulf of Oman remains unsolved, it is clear that the Trump administration […]
From TomDispatch, June 13, 2019 It’s been almost 18 years of “infinite” war, carnage, the mass displacement of peoples, the destruction of cities… you know the story. We all do… kinda… but most of the time it’s a story without them. You seldom hear their voices. They are rarely attended […]
By David Swanson, June 3, 2019 No matter how many times one presents the facts to people at real-world events, or through online media, progressive radio, and non-US television networks, there is simply no stopping virtually everyone in the United States believing the most ludicrous myths […]
Ross Caputi is a PhD student in History at UMass and a coauthor of the critically important new book The Sacking of Fallujah: A People’s History. Ross Caputi’s experience as a U.S. Marine in Fallujah in 2004 compelled him to speak […]
Danny Haiphong is an activist, journalist, and scholar. For the last five years, Haiphong has been a weekly contributor to Black Agenda Report. His articles have also appeared in The American Herald Tribune, MintPressNews, and CounterPunch. His work was featured in former Congresswoman and Green […]
By David Swanson, May 13, 2019 They say the last sip of a drink is mostly backwash. The last understanding of a war should be that every speck of it is backwash in the sense used by Ellen N. La […]
By David Swanson, May 9, 2019 Two months ago, I heard a story. You heard it too, if you went anywhere near a television or a newspaper in the United States. The government of Venezuela needed to be overthrown because […]
Will The Real Gene Sharp Please Step Forward?
Will The Real Gene Sharp Please Step Forward?
In a recent interview with Jacobin, lawyer and political activist Marcie Smith expands on an essay she wrote earlier this year calling Gene Sharp — the late founder of nonviolent theory — “one of the most important Cold War defense intellectuals the U.S. has produced.” Unfortunately, the int...Thank you to CODEPINK: Women For Peace for sharing. We must address the connection between the war machine and the climate crisis today #climatecrisis
Don't "Make War" on Climate Change
We can’t save a burning planet with the same militarist paradigms that have repeatedly set it on fire.On This Day: This date marks the annual observance of the United Nations’ Nelson Mandela International Day.
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Should Britain recognise a sovereign Palestine now? Event report
The discussion centred on these questions:
1. Can Britain recognise a Palestinian state alongside Israel?
2. Should we?
3. Will we?
4. What good (if at all) would it do?
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Should Britain recognise a sovereign Palestine now? Event report - World Beyond War . . .
By The Balfour Project, July 14, 2019 Talk by Sir Vincent Fean at recent Meretz UK Event Meretz UK hosted an event on 7th July in London’s Jewish Community centre JW3, to discuss the prospects, advantages and likely outcomes of …Encouraging news ...
It’s our right to boycott for justice
#BDS is a nonviolent struggle demanding Israel respect the rights of the Palestinian people. Tell Congress to respect the First Amendment and stop dishonest attacks on our #RightToBoycott. Tell Congress to oppose H.Res.246 and cosponsor historic H.Res.496
