Presentation of Black Alliance for Peace at 2017 Black Is Back Ballot & the Bullet Conference
by Netfa Freeman, November 10, 2017 From Archive.org This audio file is the presentation by Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) representative Netfa Freeman at the November 5, 2017
11 Nobel Peace Laureate with Pope Francis to Call for Nuclear Disarmament
From PeacePeople, November 10, 2017 On Friday 10th November, 2017 Pope Francis will grant a Papal Audience to Religious and Political Dignitaries from around the World,
Labour Badly Needs to Adopt Corbyn’s View of War and Peace
by John Rees, November 4, 2017 From Stop The War Coalition Zombie foreign policy now dominates the ministries of the Western powers. Out-of-date Cold War
Free Julian Assange!
Peoples’ Committee to Free Julian Assange Demonstration to Demand Immediate Release of Wikileaks Founder Saturday, November 18, 2017, 11:30 AM EST Embassy of The United
Top 10 Ways to Stop Trump Nuking Anybody
By David Swanson, November 15, 2017, Let’s Try Democracy. On Tuesday the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing on whether Trump can just up
Pandering to the Military Won’t Save NFL Players From Racist Backlash
The proud tradition of athlete activists has always included a critique of US militarism. By Dave Zirin, Novenber 13, 2017, The Nation. NFL public-relations flak
Time for Truth and Reconciliation for the US and Russia
By Alice Slater NATO’s recent provocative decision to build up its military forces across Europe by sending four new multinational battalions to Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia
Talk Nation Radio: War Stories
The late Eduardo Galeano’s forthcoming book, Hunter of Stories, has five or ten sentences on each page — each page a tiny story, their combination
“They Want To Know If Trump’s Crazy”
by Susan Glasser, November 13, 2017 From Politico “They want to know if he’s crazy,” said Suzanne DiMaggio, “or if this is just an act.”
U.S. Mass Shooters Are Disproportionately Veterans
UPDATE: Thank you to Paul Ryder for sending news report that moves Seattle Cafe Shooting to the Veterans list. That makes 29 of 82 or
How colonial violence came home: the ugly truth of the first world war
by Pankaj Mishra, November 12, 2017 From The Guardian ‘Today on the Western Front,” the German sociologist Max Weber wrote in September 1917, there “stands
Troopaganda Eats Its Own Tail
By David Swanson First they tell you what to think the wars are for. They’re for protection from evil enemies, for spreading democracy and human
Why I Love Terrorists
By Prince Ea. It seems like wherever we go we can’t escape conversation, media, or general fear of terrorists. In this video I share why
On Armistice Day, Let’s Celebrate Peace
By Kathy Kelly, November 10, 2017, The Progressive. Wilfred Owen, an English poet who was killed in action exactly one week before the Armistice that
WAR STORIES
By David Swanson, World Beyond War HUNTER OF STORIES The late Eduardo Galeano’s forthcoming book, Hunter of Stories, has five or ten sentences on
Did Al Qaeda Dupe Trump on Syrian Attack?
by Robert Parry, November 9, 2017 From Consortium News A new United Nations-sponsored report on the April 4 sarin incident in an Al Qaeda-controlled town in Syria
Rep. John Lewis on the Cost of War and H.R. 1
Congressman John Lewis (D-GA) proposes an amendment to delay tax cuts in H.R. 1 until the United States has withdrawn from all wars and eliminates
A New Armistice Day
by David Swanson, November 8, 2017 Exactly at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, 99 years ago, people across Europe
The Decay of the US-Korea Relationship
by Emanuel Pastreich, November 8, 2017 Watching the speeches of President Donald Trump and President Moon Jae-in in Seoul over the last few days gave
The Day I First Picketed the White House―and Why It Wasn’t a Bad Idea
By Lawrence Wittner, November 7, 2017. The reckless threats of nuclear war flung back and forth between the North Korean and U.S. governments remind me
Talk Nation Radio: Nick Buxton on Climate Chaos and Militarism
This week on Talk Nation Radio: Climate chaos and militarism. We’re joined by Nick Buxton, who is the co-editor of an important book called The
Tokyo Inter Labor Rally Against Trump/Abe’s War On N. Korea, Privatization & Union Busting
by Labor Video Project, November 6th, 2017, indybay.org. Thousands of workers and youth from Japan and around the world participated in an international rally against
Japanese Stand Up against Abe and Trump’s Korea War Agenda
By Joseph Essertier, November 6, 2017. Tokyo — Two fairly large protests were held here yesterday (Sunday, November 5)—one a rally organized by labor unions
As Trump Visits Asia, Civil Society in the U.S., South Korea, and Japan Call for Bold Shift in Policy to Avert War in Korea
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, November 6, 2017 Contact: Christine Ahn (310) 482-9333 Jackie Cabasso (510) 306-0119 HONOLULU — Today, hundreds of national civil society organizations
Disarmament Instead of Armament
October 24, 2017, abruesten.jetzt. As agreed in the NATO, the federal government plans to nearly double the armament expenditure to two percent of Germany’s economic
$elling War and Pentagon Expansion in Asia-Pacific
By Bruce K. Gagnon, November 5, 2017, Organizing Notes. Trump touched down in Hawaii on his way to Asia. He was met with protests there
Is the U.S. the Largest Purveyor of Genocide on the Planet?
American policy has deadly consequences for people all over the world. By Jeff Bachmann , October 30, 2017, AlterNet It has been nearly 70
How to Respond When Someone Uses a Vehicle as a Weapon of Terror
by Patrick T. Hiller The use of vehicles as weapons to kill civilians has sparked global fear and attention. Such attacks can be carried out
Tens of thousands rally in Tokyo against Abe’s push to rewrite Article 9
From The Japan Times, November 3, 2017 Tens of thousands of people staged a rally in central Tokyo on Friday to protest Prime Minister Shinzo