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Our five organizations, CODEPINK, Environmentalists Against War, Just World Educational, Traprock Center for Peace & Justice, and World Beyond War, invite citizens and organizations around the

By No Trump Military Parade, March 1, 2018, Popular Resistance. Peace and Justice Groups Say, “There will be more opponents than supporters if the military parade

By David Swanson, March 1, 2018. Remarks at Saint Mary’s Hall, San Antonio, Texas, March 1, 2018 Accompanying Powerpoint. Thank you for inviting me. What

By Bruce Fein, March 1, 2018 From The American Conservative On Wednesday, in a show of bipartisan unity against unauthorized wars of choice, Senators Mike

By William D. Hartung, TomDispatch, February 28, 2018. What company gets the most money from the U.S. government? The answer: the weapons maker Lockheed Martin.

A legislative committee appears to favor the $60 million in incentives but delays a vote on the 16th day of an activist’s liquid-only diet. By

By Pat Elder, February 27, 2018. A young Nikolas Cruz, the Parkland shooter, posted the image shown (above left) on his Instagram account. The date

By Maj. Danny Sjursen, February 22, 2018, from truthdig. I would at times feel that learning to read had been a curse rather than a

By David Swanson, February 26, 2018.  The Charlottesville Daily Progress has published a version of an editorial by the Richmond Times Dispatch that points the

By Robert Anschuetz, February 26, 2018 As I watched President Trump’s first State of the Union address at the end of January, I found myself strangely

By David Swanson, February 25 2018 From Let’s Try Democracy The power of mass demonstrations to mobilize activism and move those in positions of power

By Gar Smith From the Berkeley Daily Planet (October 21, 2016) Filmmaker Craig Atkinson’s dad was a Detroit-area cop for 29 years and a member

By Barbara Zaha Nearly a century ago, Gandhi advised, “The future depends on what you do today.” Clearly, the wisdom of those words reflects throughout

From democracynow.org, February 21, 2018. Part 1. Dozens of students who survived last week’s school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida have

Kathy Kelly: Video with transcript – February 20, 2018.  Kathy Kelly, on Feb 15 2018, addresses NY’s “Stony Point Center” outlining the history of

By David Swanson, February 23, 2018. I asked my Facebook page which high school teacher they’d least like to have had a gun in their

by Donnal Walter, February 22, 2018 In a recent Facebook post I suggested that the ‘right to keep and bear arms’ is somehow not on

By David Swanson, World Beyond War World Beyond War has been raising funds for and renting billboards in opposition to war. We’ve run into censorship

By Terry Crawford-Browne, February 18, 2018 Afro-pessimists were astounded when in 1994 South Africa triumphed relatively peacefully over apartheid. The world had expected a racial

From the Afro-Middle East Centre, February 19, 2018 At the establishment of the African Union (AU) in May 2001, discourses about human security and counter

By Terry Crawford-Browne, February 19, 2018 Sanctions against apartheid South Africa are, in the opinion of the writer, the only instance when sanctions have achieved

By David Swanson, February 17, 2018 Dear Taliban, Thank you for your letter to the American people. As one person in the United States I

By Pat Elder, February 16, 2018 Nikolas Cruz, the south Florida shooter, was enrolled in the Army’s Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (JROTC) program as

By David Swanson, February 15, 2018 35% of U.S. mass shooters are military veterans, as compared with 14.76% in the general population for the same

By David Swanson, February 14, 2018 Anna Baltzer’s amazing book Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories has been updated over the years,