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VIDEO: Afghanistan Valentine’s Day Webinar hosted by Grannies for Peace
U.S. Sanctions Starve Afghans: End this Continuing War.
U.S. Sanctions Starve Afghans: End this Continuing War.
Despite the horrors and despair of the past century, there have always been those who have borne witness to and resisted them. And therein lies our history and our hope. Such a person was Frank Showler, who we lost last Thursday at the age of 102.
When I suggest not stealing billions of dollars from Afghanistan, and thereby not causing mass starvation and death, otherwise intelligent and informed people tell me that human rights demands that theft.
The February 2022 Volunteer Spotlight features Sean Reynolds, a former co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence who is currently volunteering with the WBW events team.
The African Union is condemning a wave of coups in Africa, where military forces have seized power over the past 18 months in Mali, Chad, Guinea, Sudan and, most recently, in January, Burkina Faso. Several were led by U.S.-trained officers as part of a growing U.S. military presence in the region under the guise of counterterrorism.
What if they only consulted the same geniuses who told them to value the filibuster and bipartisan harmony over the lives of struggling people?
Washington’s response to Russia’s December security proposals augurs well for an eventual peaceful denouement on Ukraine.
I’ve been looking at Smedley a little differently after reading Jonathan Katz’s new book, Gangsters of Capitalism.
Militarism has infiltrated the world, but we are the generation who can remedy the harm it has inflicted. We can liberate us all.