Volunteer Spotlight: Patterson Deppen
This month’s volunteer spotlight features Patterson Deppen from New York, NY.
This month’s volunteer spotlight features Patterson Deppen from New York, NY.
At some point before the summer of 2018, an arms deal from the US to Saudi Arabia was sealed and delivered.
Canadian peace activists held fast to stop Trudeau government from buying new warplanes.
When you raise the topic of war they’ll sometimes mention how there used to be a Cold War and a danger of nuclear apocalypse “back in the 80s.”
So, we can have a world beyond war or we can have no world at all.
The brutal U.S.-backed, Canada-armed, Saudi-led war in Yemen has gone on for over six years. This war has killed almost a quarter of a million people, and Yemen today remains the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.
In one of the most gut-wrenching scenes from decades of Israeli attacks against Gaza, four children playing on a beach were murdered in 2014 by an Israeli drone strike.
I wish I were joking, even a little. Malcolm Gladwell’s book, The Bomber Mafia, maintains that Haywood Hansell was essentially Jesus tempted by the Devil when he refused to burn Japanese cities to the ground.
“Dig a hole, cover it with a couple of doors and then throw three feet of dirt on top… It’s the dirt that does it… If there are enough shovels to go around, everybody’s going to make it.”