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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

 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

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

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

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

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

By Alisher Nuraliyev in Astana Times: Eurasia & World NEW YORK – Kazakhstan believes the Astana platform, which recently demonstrated its usefulness in talks on

Remembering Past Wars . . . and Preventing the Next A century since World War I and a half-century since the Vietnam War, a group

Remembering Past Wars . . . and Preventing the Next An event to mark 100 years since the United States entered World War I, and

Remembering Past Wars . . . and Preventing the Next An event to mark 100 years since the United States entered World War I, and

By David Swanson This April 4th will be 100 years since the U.S. Senate voted to declare war on Germany and 50 since Martin Luther

by Greg Shupak, Jacobin. Being pro-refugee must also mean being antiwar.   The Mazraq refugee camp in Yemen. IRIN Photos / Flickr  As President Trump

Americans Also Want to Be Less Active in World Affairs by Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com. A new NBC News/Surveymonkey survey (PDF) was released today revealing that

By Henry Lowendorf, U.S. Peace Council New Haven, CT 2017 February 21 The resolution to cut the military budget to fund New Haven, CT, human

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Barry Hatton, AP, SFGate. Feb 21, 2017. LISBON, Portugal (AP) — A former CIA agent will be handed over to Italy in the coming days

By Ben Manski, CommonDreams. A general alarm has risen in response to the recently leaked draft memo from Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly

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https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-la-kauffman-on-direct-action L.A. Kauffman is the author of Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism. She has spent more than 30 years immersed in

By Tilman Ruff, Kyodo News. MELBOURNE, Feb. 21. Last week in New York, the first concrete step was taken to implement December’s overwhelming vote in

From Mike Madden (of St. Paul, Minnesota), Consortiumnews.com. As Democrats compete to become the new War Party – pushing for a dangerous confrontation with nuclear-armed

By David Swanson, Let’s Try Democracy. I read this article: “A Documentary You’ll Likely Never See,” and watched this preview. So, of course, I wanted

By Nicolas J S Davies, Consortiumnew.com. Exclusive: The Democrats’ rush to rebrand themselves as super-hawks is perhaps best illustrated by the once-dovish Rep. Alcee Hastings

By Ray McGovern, Consortiumnews.com. Exclusive: Mainstream U.S. media only wants stories of Russian perfidy, so when German intelligence cleared Moscow of suspected subversion of German democracy,

January/February 2017 BY CHUCK SEARCY, The VVA Veteran For most Americans, the Vietnam War ended in 1975. But for too many Vietnamese, the war didn’t

US Risks Nuclear War With Russia and China: What Everyone Deserves to Know By John Lewallen. The risk of “accidental” nuclear war involving the US,

By David Swanson For the past decade, the standard procedure for big coalition rallies and marches in Washington D.C. has been to gather together organizations

General Conference of the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean XXV Session Mexico City, 14 February 2017 The