This is what austerity looks like
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Nation of Change . It is growing insecurity that drives fear, and the elites’ use that fear to divide
Charlottesville to Vote on Opposing Trump Budget
By David Swanson, Let’s Try Democracy. We Did It! Now’s Our Chance! Everybody out to oppose war at the next meeting! At the March 6,
Stuxnet Goes To North Korea
By Dan Wright, Shadow Proof. In 2010, the world first learned about a malicious computer worm that had been wrecking Iran’s nuclear facilities by making
Contacts with Russian Embassy
By Jack Matlock. Our press seems to be in a feeding frenzy regarding contacts that President Trump’s supporters had with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak and
ACTION ALERT from the ODESSA SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN
Stop Government Repression Against Anti-Fascists in Odessa! Free Alexander Kushnarev! It’s been nearly three years since the brutal massacre of 46 mostly young progressives by
Pivot Toward War: 25th Annual Space Organizing Conference
25th Annual Space Organizing Conference & Protest April 7-9 Huntsville, Alabama Join us for the Global Network’s 25th anniversary Space Organizing Conference and Protest at
US lawmaker calls for probe into possible $418M arms sale to Kenya
By Cristina Corbin, FoxNews.com. IOMAX builds the Archangel, pictured here, by converting crop dusters into weaponized planes with high-tech surveillance equipment. (IOMAX) A North Carolina
U.S. Experts Say North Korean Government is NOT Irrational and Call for Talks
By Ann Wright Why are discussions for a peace treaty with North Korea not an option to resolve the extraordinarily dangerous tensions on the Korean
DRONE RESISTERS ACQUITTED!
Four drone resisters, James Ricks, Daniel Burns, Brian Hynes, and Ed Kinane, from the 2015 big books action were found innocent of all charges
How Wealthy Donors Drive Aggressive Foreign Policy
By Sean McElwee, Brian Schaffner and Jesse Rhodes, The Nation. As the influence of high-dollar donors grows, so too will our bellicosity. A nuclear-powered United States
Our Causes Are Connected, Our Movements Should Be Too
By David Swanson Global corporations and international government alliances are pushing war, environmental destruction, economic exploitation, defunding of schools and housing, hateful divisive ideologies, and
Has Van Jones Lost His Mind, Or Are Sane People Missing the Point?
By David Swanson, Let’s Try Democracy. A rational and moral person might think of the recent U.S. raid in Yemen this way. Here’s one small
Israel’s Anti-Semitism Smears Backfire
By Ann Wright, Consortium News. In Rome, Israeli Embassy and Jewish Community Association Use Anti-Semitism to Cancel Ann Wright’s Talk on Gaza at Rome City
Drone Protesters Arrested on Tuesday
Report from Toby Blomé, War Is A Crime.org. Anti-Drone Activists Blocked Gate to Beale AFB with Life-Sized Figures of Drone Victims Four Arrested While “Putting
A Sample Local Resolution to Resist and Overcome — and How to Pass It
Related posts. Sample U.S. resolution on Gaza 2024. Passing local resolutions in favor of moving funding from militarism to human and environmental needs is useful
Trump reverses ‘costly, failed war’ rhetoric; gives Pentagon a raise
President Donald Trump aims to increase the Pentagon’s budget by $54 billion, as part of a push to rebuild America’s “depleted military.” Trump also promised
Remembering Reykjavik: A Nuclear History Lesson for Trump and Putin
By Vladimir Dvorkin, Carnegie Moscow Center. Over thirty years ago, in October 1986, the leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union met for
Peace Science Digest, Vol 2, Issue 1
Peace Science Digest. Peace and Conflict Studies (henceforth: Peace Science) has emerged as an academic discipline with its own graduate programs, handbooks, research tools, theories,
This Is Not Your Grandparents’ Resistance
By David Swanson, Let’s Try Democracy. I want to disagree, in part, with a recent recommendation that John Steinbeck’s The Moon Is Down be used
Talk Nation Radio: Michael Kazin on the Peace Activists Who Warned Against World War I
https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-michael-kazin-on-the-peace-activists-who-warned-against-world-war-i Michael Kazin is a professor of history at Georgetown University and editor of Dissent, a magazine of politics and culture which has been published
How ‘New Cold Warriors’ Cornered Trump
By Gareth Porter, Consortium News. Exclusive: The U.S. intelligence community’s extraordinary campaign of leaks claiming improper ties between President Trump’s team and Russia seeks to
Trump Can Prove He’s Not A Putin Puppet By Blowing Up The World
By Norman Solomon, Huffington Post. The incessant goading and denunciations of Trump as a Kremlin flunky are escalating massive pressure on him to prove otherwise.
The Choice Trump’s Budget Creates
By David Swanson Trump proposes to increase U.S. military spending by $54 billion, and to take that $54 billion out of the other portions of
Trump – Putin could rescue the world – and win the Nobel Peace Prize
By Fredrik S. Heffermehl, Public Intelligence Blog. Fredrik S. Heffermehl Donald Trump has promised to repair America´s infrastructure and to lower taxes. We all know
Why Should Trump―or Anyone―Be Able to Launch a Nuclear War?
By Lawrence Wittner, Peace Voice. The accession of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency brings us face-to-face with a question that many have tried to
Petition Delivered to Foreign Ministers Supporting Nuclear-Free Zones
Message Delivered to Foreign Ministers of the Latin American and Caribbean States assembled February 14, 2017 in Mexico City Congratulations! We look forward to your
Can Canada Get Out of the War Business?
By David Swanson Canada is becoming a major weapons dealer, a reliable accomplice in U.S. wars, and a true believer in “humanitarian” armed peacekeeping as
Open Guantanamo!
By David Swanson, Let’s Try Democracy. Antes des morirme quiero echar mis versos del alma. Open Guantanamo to human rights inspectors. Open its files to
Kazakhstan offers ‘Astana platform’ as venue to resolve conflicts beyond Syria
By Alisher Nuraliyev in Astana Times: Eurasia & World NEW YORK – Kazakhstan believes the Astana platform, which recently demonstrated its usefulness in talks on