A former Salvadoran army colonel who served as a government security minister has been sentenced to 133 years in prison after being found guilty of the murder of five Spanish Jesuits who died in one of the infamous atrocities of El Salvador’s 12-year civil war.
Now is the time to link the Black Lives Matter Movement with the Peace and Justice Movement, to shout “Demilitarize” “Defund the Police” but also “Defund the Military” as protesters march at the intersection between militarism at home and militarism abroad.
As the United States marks 19 years since the September 11 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, a new report finds at least 37 million people in eight countries have been displaced since the start of the so-called global war on terrorism since 2001.
The prioritising of a money-spinning cash crop over essential food production has also left once self-sufficient Afghanistan completely dependent on other nations for basic essentials.
By David Vine, September 9, 2020 From Investigative Reporting Workshop The wars the U.S. government has fought since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, have
The Nuclear Free Future Foundation, based in Munich, Germany, has announced the 2020 winners of the Nuclear Free Future Award.
Dr. Vladimir Kozin authored an appeal to the nine nuclear armed nations to completely disarm by 2045 or sooner. The appeal as of today, September 3rd, 2020, after only two weeks has 8,600 signatures and has been endorsed by dozens and dozens of NGOs Peace, anti-war and anti-nuclear organizations around the world.
In Europe civil air traffic is expected to drop by 60% this year compared to 2019, due to Covid-19 restrictions, putting more than 7 million jobs at risk. On the other hand, military air traffic is growing.
“It is deeply frustrating that New Zealand First MP and Defence Minister Ron Mark insisted on sending the NZ Navy into an area which entails risk to public health, to prop up the United States’ continuing global aggression,” said Valerie Morse, member of the Cancel RIMPAC Coalition Aotearoa.
