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The last known survivor of no-man’s-land football died on July 22nd, 2001, aged 106. THE ECONOMIST OLD soldiers, they say, never die, they only fade

A Christmas truce letter is here. And here’s a script that turns the above letter into a play that can be performed on Christmas by

Here’s an account of the Christmas Truce from a book written by someone who was there: Bullets & Billets, by Bruce Bairnsfather via Project Guttenberg

O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum, Du kannst mir sehr gefallen! The news had come out in the First World War The bloody Red Baron was flying

My name is Francis Tolliver, I come from Liverpool. Two years ago the war was waiting for me after school. To Belgium and to Flanders,

Oh, the snowflakes fell in silence Over Belleau Wood that night For a Christmas truce had been declared By both sides of the fight As

The Christmas Truce By Aaron Shepard Printed in Australia’s School Magazine, Apr. 2001   For more treats and resources, visit Aaron Shepard at www.aaronshep.com  

As construction finishes on six new helipads, demonstrations to remove the military are reaching a fever pitch. By Lisa Torio, The Nation hree weeks ago, on

  By Ann Wright Governments go to pretty low tricks to silent dissent–curtailing ones travel to neighboring countries and now stopping social security checks. First,

  By John Carl Baker, Bulletin of the Atomic Sciences With Donald Trump set to ascend to the presidency, many in the disarmament and nonproliferation

By John LaForge, Peace Voice Federal District Judge Miles Lord, who died Dec. 10 at age 97, could have given me 10 years once. Instead,

By Kathy Kelly, Voices for Creative Nonviolence Since the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, I’ve given daily thought to the

By Norman Solomon, RootsAction This week began with a mass email from the head of the Democratic National Committee, who declared: “By now, Americans know

By David Swanson A new large photo book has just been published called Un-American: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II. People who

The West Suburban (Chicago, Ill., U.S.) Faith-Based Peace Coalition is once again sponsoring a Peace Essay Contest with a $1,000.00 award to the winner, $300

By Judith Mohling, Colorado Daily On the one hand, the world may be heading toward the Trumpian dream of profit and the planet be damned.

By Sam Knight, District Sentinel Lawyers for Yemeni men suing the US government, for killing two relatives in drone strikes, made their case on Tuesday

  Democracy Now: At least one child dies every 10 minutes in Yemen. That’s the conclusion of a report just published by the U.N. children’s

Can These Islands Survive America’s Military Pivot To Asia? The Mariana Islands are still littered with dangerous debris left over from World War II but

MARK YOUR CALENDARS – PLAN TO COME January 31st, 2017 – 7:30 pm – St. Michael Parish Hall 196 Main St.  North Andover, MA  01845

  By Tito Justin, VOA JUBA — President Salva Kiir has asked the South Sudanese to forgive him for past mistakes. The president made the

By Rachel Gilmer, AlterNet Editor’s note: This testimony was presented at the People’s Tribunal on the Iraq War, which took place December 1-2 in Washington D.C.

A Convergence For Peace in the Nevada Desert Join us April 23-29th at Creech Air Force Base, Indian Springs, Nevada for the 3rd Annual national mobilization of

Though America’s roiling wars and conflicts in the Greater Middle East get significant attention, key decisions when it comes to the global role of U.S.

REPRIEVE A Yemeni civilian who lost two innocent relatives to a 2012 covert drone strike has written to President Obama to ask for an apology