By Medea Benjamin and Alice Slater, January 8, 2019 A deafening chorus of negative grumbling from the left, right, and center of the US political spectrum in response to Trump’s decision to remove US troops from Syria and halve their […]
By David Swanson Bernie Sanders has added the existence of foreign policy onto the bottom of emails like the one below, after having posted a video of himself quoting the usual Eisenhower quotes on military spending. These changes match the […]
By Lindsay Koshgarian From Other Words, December 24, 2018 In this season of (hoped for) peace and goodwill, it’s worth looking for things our divided country can agree on. And since all of us want to be able to trust government […]
Dave Lindorff is an investigative reporter who writes for the Nation, London Review of Books, Salon and Tarbell.org. He is founder of the collectively run journalists’ news site thiscantbehappening.net. Lindorff has just published an articled called “Exclusive: The Pentagon’s Massive Accounting […]
By Miriam Pemberton, November 28, 2018 From Defense One This moment, after the midterm elections and before the partisan wars get fully back into gear, is the right time to take note of efforts to reach across America’s political divide. […]
October 23, 2018 by David Swanson Nicolas J. S. Davies writes about U.S. foreign policy, war and militarism for Consortium News and other outlets. He has been working as a researcher with CODEPINK, and co-authored its report on “War Profiteers: […]
By Eleanor, ArtKillingApathy It’s a pretty boring drive. My friends in Sweden always engage their rose-colored paradigms when I talk about driving in the US. They think it’s like Thelma and Louise or that Johnny Depp commercial where he’s driving […]
Things Congress Could Do for Peace, From Easiest to Hardest
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When talking about how to fund useful projects, or talking about the federal budget or the U.S. economy, talk as if U.S. military spending exists. With 67 percent of federal discretionary spending …Yesterday's Militarism in the Media webinar. We maxed out Zoom's meeting room with 100 people! Next time we'll upgrade our capacity. Thanks to all who participated! www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh3xlrfAhhYMilitarism in the Media: On January 15, 2019, 100 participants joined our webinar featuring experts Rose Dyson and Jeff Cohen discussing the role of the medi...
Talk Nation Radio: Rob Kajiwara on U.S. Bases on Okinawa
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Rob Kajiwara is an Okinawan-Hawaian singer-songwriter and visual artist. In 2017, he was made a cultural ambassador for his ancestral village of Nakagusuku, Okinawa. In 2018 he was also made a cult…Top 10 Reasons Not to Love NATO
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The New York Times loves NATO, but should you? Judging by comments in social media and the real world, millions of people in the United States have gone from having little or no opinion on NATO, or…How can we make the best case for shifting from war to peace? Take War Abolition 101 to brush up on your talking points. worldbeyondwar.org/downloads/war-abolition-101-online-course-registration/
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