The war in Yemen has entered its sixth, devastating year. Over 100,000 people have died and millions are on the brink of famine. The United States government is complicit in this war; millions worth of arms have been sold to the Saudi coalition since the start of the war, US planes have helped refuel Saudi planes and directed the bombings.
Nicolas “Sandy” Davies is a freelance writer, a researcher for CODEPINK and the author of Blood On Our Hands: the American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq.
Did you ever wonder whether Western culture focuses on destroying rather than preventing cancer, and talks about it with all the language of a war against an enemy, just because that’s how this culture does things, or whether the approach to cancer was actually created by people waging a real war?
A Hawke’s Bay peace advocate says the sight of 100 soldiers marching down Dannevirke’s main street as part of a charter parade earlier in December was “inappropriate” so close to Christmas.
Early this morning, protesters from Extinction Rebellion Bristol and Christian Climate Action blocked access to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) site at Abbey Wood near Bristol.
The militarized counterterrorism policy Biden has supported in the past—based on airstrikes, special operations and the use of proxy forces—is precisely what keeps USA’s conflicts raging.
Note that many of these items are U.S.-specific, and one is particularly for Ohio. The video included here was with the Columbus (Ohio) Free Press. But many of these are steps needed everywhere on earth.
A coalition in Portland, Oregon, U.S., is continuing to build a campaign to demilitarize police.
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