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This evening, February 9, 2015, a handful of visitors from the land to the north asked an assistant (or “instructional” which I take to be

We arrived in Havana tonight, February 8, 2015, or year 56 of the revolution, 150 of us filling an entire airplane, a group of U.S.

By Nacionalistas On February 4th, 2015, activists from various anti-globalist and anti-imperialist Lithuanian organizations, including the National Workers Movement, gathered in front of the United States

Was the United States compelled to attack Afghanistan and Iraq by the events of September 11, 2001? A key to answering that rather enormous question

By Winslow Myers Escalating tensions in the Ukraine raise the concern that the “firebreak” between conventional and the tactical nuclear weapons potentially available to all

By John Reuwer, MD, Adjunct Professor, Conflict Resolution, Saint Michael’s College As a student and teacher of nonviolent action, I was disheartened last week to

By David Swanson Whether someone becomes addicted to drugs has much more to do with their childhood and their quality of life than with the

On May 24, 2015, 30 international women peacemakers from around the world will walk with Korean women, north and south, to call for an end

By Winslow Myers Ronald Reagan’s assertion back in 1984 that “a nuclear war cannot be won and should never be fought” seems to have become

By David Swanson Foreword to America’s Oldest Professions: Warring and Spying (available in Kindle version free this week.) One of the ways in which we

https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-raed-jarrar-obamas-budget-spends-58-of-discretionary-spending-on-military Raed Jarrar is Policy Impact Coordinator at the American Friends Service Committee. He discusses President Obama’s proposed budget. See http://www.afsc.org/media-kit/bios/raed-jarrar Total run time: 29:00

https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-joseph-hickman-on-deadly-human-experimentation-at-guantanamo-bay Joseph Hickman is the author of Murder at Camp Delta: A Staff Sergeant’s Pursuit of the Truth About Guantanamo Bay. He details the evidence

Nan Levinson’s new book is called War Is Not a Game: The New Antiwar Soldiers and the Movement They Built, but it left me wishing

Sherman statue anchors one southern corner of Central Park (with Columbus on a stick anchoring the other): Matthew Carr’s new book, Sherman’s Ghosts: Soldiers, Civilians,

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We are determined to build up public support and actions to make

From Javier Garate at WRI:  (https://www.facebook.com/groups/GJpeoples/permalink/1066190600074580/) The Korean Ministry of National Defense has declared that they will perform an “Administrative Execution” on Saturday, January 31st,

Back in October, I reported that, “A type of airplane, the A-10, deployed this month to the Middle East by the U.S. Air National Guard’s

By David Swanson In proposing that Congress Members boycott or walk out on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned speech to Congress, expected to push for

By David Swanson Shock and Awe is having a troubled adolescence. The U.S. government is killing children with flying robot death planes, keeping troops in

By Francine Mukwaya, UK Representative, Friends of the Congo On Monday, January 19th, Congolese citizens rose up to contest the latest maneuver by the government

Come  learn more about the bitter and largely misunderstood situation on the ground in Iraq and Syria as we hear from some of the most

Bahrain Watch, MENA Solidarity, Egypt Solidarity Initiative would like to invite you to a film screening and one day conference marking the 4th anniversary of

By John Feffer, TomDispatch Europe won the Cold War. Not long after the Berlin Wall fell a quarter of a century ago, the Soviet Union collapsed,

https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-brian-salvatore-on-armys-plan-for-biggest-open-air-burn-of-explosives-ever Dr. Brian A. Salvatore is a Professor of Chemistry at Louisiana State University Shreveport, where he has been on the faculty since 2003. Dr.

By Todd Miller and Gabriel M. Schivone, TomDispatch.com It was October 2012. Roei Elkabetz, a brigadier general for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), was explaining

THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR NONVIOLENT RESISTANCE ISSUES A CALL TO ACTION In times of great injustice and despair, we are called to act from a