Banning Bombs and Ending Wars at Home and Abroad
By M. Flowers | June 6, 2017, Reposted June 6, 2017 from Clearing the Fog Radio. The United States is now in its 17th year
Brad Pitt Does Stanley McChrystal: When Netflix’ War Movie Stops Being Funny
By David Swanson | June 5 2017 Reposted June 5, 2017 from Let’s Try Democracy. The new movie, War Machine, on Netflix starring Brad Pitt
After a Terrorist Attack, Spain Rejected Its Hawks. Will Britain?
Spanish voters turned against the incumbent conservative party after the 2004 Madrid bombings. By Sam Husseini, June 5, 2017 Reposted June 5, 2017 from The
Dangerous Discourse: When Progressives Sound Like Demagogues
By Norman Solomon | June 5, 2017. The Trump administration has already done enormous harm to the United States and the planet. Along the way,
The Declaration of Peace
By Kent Drummond Shifferd These are self-evident truths: That all humans are a single family living on a fragile and endangered planet whose life support
Netflix’s War Machine: A hard-hitting attack on America’s military madness
By Joanne Laurier , May 30, 2017. Reposted June 3, 2017 from World Socialist Website. Written and directed by David Michôd The Netflix satire War
A Portrait of the CIA in Prison
By David Swanson, June 3, 2017. Reposted June 3, 2017 from Let’s Try Democracy. John Kiriakou’s Doing Time Like a Spy: How the CIA Taught
Stop the Saudi Arabia Arms Sales
Please join this important conference call to help prevent a further humanitarian disaster from happening in Yemen and stop the U.S. from selling arms to
“Veterans for Peace” Confront President Trump About Endless Wars
On Tuesday morning, May 30, 2017, a contingent of antiwar protesters in the hundreds, gathered for a rally, at 11am, at the Lincoln Memorial in
Ghosts of Vietnam Era Inform American Leaders in 2017 as They Plan Billion-Year War
By John Stanton | June 1, 2017. Reposted June 1, 2017 from The Smirking Chimp. “US CENTCOM commanders announced today that they intend to maintain
Ending the Nuclear Nightmare
World Beyond War presents a discussion with Ellen Thomas about her 5,000 mile tour, promoting a nuclear-free future. This program was recorded by Chicago Access
Observations and Impressions from Russia
By Rick Sterling | May 30, 2017 . Reposted May 31, 2017 from: Dissident Voice. Introduction For over two weeks this May, a delegation of
War Monuments Are Killing Us
Remarks at Lincoln Memorial, May 30, 2017 By David Swanson, Let’s Try Democracy. Washington, D.C., and much of the rest of the United States,
What will it take to ban the bomb?
By Frida Berrigan | May 30, 2017, Waging Nonviolence. When I was a young teenager, I would venture down to the basement where my father
North Korea blasts South for ‘nuclear bomb-dropping’ drill with U.S. B-1B strategic bomber
by Jesse Johnson, The Japan Times. A pair of U.S. B-1B strategic bombers conduct joint drills with Air Self-Defense Force F-15s in airspace over the
Talk Nation Radio: Charlotte Dennett on Origins of U.S. Obsession with Middle East
https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-charlotte-dennett-on-origins-of-us-obsession-with-middle-east. Charlotte Dennett is an attorney, author, and investigative journalist. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, she became a roving correspondent for The Middle East Sketch in
Block NATO 2017: 140 Arrests
PopularResistance.org. One hundred and fifty nonviolent activists, amongst whom are activists from Agir pour la Paix, are currently disturbing the access to the NATO Summit
Russia Calls House Bill an “Act of War.” Will the Senate Block H.R. 1644?
By Gar Smith Top Russian officials are concerned that a bill passed by the US Congress will do more than increase sanctions on North Korea.
Remembering Past Wars, at the San Francisco Public Library
Adam Hochschild Daniel Ellsberg Jackie Cabasso David Hartsough A century since World War I and a half-century since Vietnam, a group of authors discuss new
Commentary: Take torture off agenda
Consider ending violence in a nonviolent way By Kristin Y. Christman, Commentary According to President Donald Trump, people who are tortured deserve it. Trump’s initial
Thousands March Saying “NO to NATO” and “Make Peace Great Again”
By Ann Wright. Around 15,000 activists from around Europe and North America marched through the streets of Brussels on May 24, 2017 in opposition to
Canada is uncomfortably allied with the torturers of the new Iraq
Warning: This column contains graphic descriptions of violence that some readers might find disturbing By Neil Macdonald, CBC News . Under Saddam Hussein, the minority
The only real way to stop atrocities like the Manchester attack is to end the wars which allow extremism to grow
To end these wars, there needs to be political compromise between main players like Iran and Saudi Arabia, and Donald Trump’s belligerent rhetoric this week
U.S. Increases Nuclear Energy Spending as It Fights Global Weapons Ban
David Swanson of World Beyond War says the Trump administration is increasing nuclear energy spending while seeking to thwart a landmark global campaign for a
We’re Dealing With a New Type of War Lie
By David Swanson, Let’s Try Democracy. When the U.S. public was told that Spain had blown up the Maine, or Vietnam had returned fire, or
#foreverhumanbeings Rolling Fast
WAT has initiated a rolling fast during Ramadan and beyond to lift up the stories of the 41 men detained at Guantanamo Bay Prison. Starting
A Call to Mobilize the Nation over the Next 18 Months
By Rev. John Dear, Campaign Nonviolence. While the media and the nation sit transfixed over the Trump scandals and attacks on democracy, those of us
The Basques In Spain: Positive Peace?
By Johan Galtung, www.transcend.org. Spain is in a process that will take some time, from “España: Una, Grande, Libre” to “España: Una Comunidad de naciones“—“Spain:
The Emperor Visits the Provinces
By Miko Peled. Reception for Trump w Israel heads of state in Tel-Aviv airport Israel breathes a sigh of relief as trump leaves the region with
