A Tale of Two Marines

By David Swanson These two young men may have an infinite number of things in common, but the actions they took this week do not. One used a pro-war ceremony at a professional basketball game to reject the celebration of […]

Did A North Korean Nuclear EMP Bomb Threat Lead to Peace Talks With President Trump?

By John Lewallen, avoidingnuclearwar.com A Deadly Game of Nuclear Chicken On March 17, 2017, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson stood in the stark, empty building on the 38th Parallel that divides North from South Korea and touched off one […]

Russia: Moscow to respond in kind if US leaves nuke treaty

Another Amazing Coincidence: Man Trained to Mass Murder Commits Mass Murder

By David Swanson, November 8, 2018 The suspect in today’s mass shooting (well, the biggest one I’ve heard of thus far this morning; the day is young) is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. Another mass shooter in Florida last week […]

Fear, Hate and Violence: The Human Cost of US Sanctions on Iran

By Alan Knight with with Shahrzad Khayatian, October 13, 2018 On August 23, 2018 the street price of 1 US$ in Iran was 110,000 Rial. Three months earlier the street price was 30,000 Rial.  In other words, the oranges you paid […]

Weaponised AI Is Coming. Are Algorithmic Forever Wars Our Future?

By Ben Tarnoff, October 11. 2018, The Guardian. The US military is creating a more automated form of warfare – one that will greatly increase its capacity to wage war everywhere forever. Last month marked the 17th anniversary of 9/11. […]

Nobel Peace Prize 2018: A Teachable Moment

Abolishing war as a prerequisite to reducing violence against women Global Campaign for PEACEducation, October 11, 2018 The Global Campaign for Peace Education congratulates 2018 Nobel Peace Prize recipients Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad, who are recognized for their courageous […]