Friday, March 29, 2024

Preparing for the Next Memorial Day

In the aftermath of the Memorial Day military parades and with a new administration looming on the horizon, a critical task for the coming year is to build a renewed, more vibrant, interracial, and multi-generational peace movement that will pressure the next administration.

As conflict with Iran escalates, path to peace can be found

"It is the job of the peace movement and all those who seek stability and justice in the world to work toward this outcome."

Mulligan in Afghanistan

Trump applies the rules of his golf game to foreign policy.

The US war in Iraq: 15 years and counting … the dead and displaced

Fifteen years after the calamitous invasion of Iraq, those who precipitated the war still walk free.
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How America’s perpetual warfare abroad is fueling an increase in white supremacist violence in...

“If you look for instance at the surges in Ku Klux Klan membership, they align more consistently with the return of veterans from combat and the aftermath of war than they do with anti-immigration, populism, economic hardship or any of the other factors that historians have typically used to explain them."

With Afghanistan withdrawal underway, new report reveals costs of post-9/11 wars for US allies

“Americans do not fully understand, do not acknowledge, the sacrifices that allies made in Afghanistan,” said the report’s author.

Bernie calls for vote in Senate for No War Against Iran Act

“We must end our endless wars.”

When all the world’s a war…

And all the men and women merely soldiers.

In historic vote, Senate comes together to end military support of unauthorized Saudi-led war...

"I hope … we send a loud and powerful message by passing this resolution. That we’re going to bring peace to that country and that the United States Congress is going to reassert its constitutional authority to be the body that makes war not the president."

Report shows how military industrial complex sets media narrative on Ukraine

A recent report from the Quincy Institute (6/1/23) demonstrates just how much influence war profiteers have on the national discourse.