Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Tag: peace

Mother’s Day pivots to peace

"No matter what you do it will never amount to anything but a single drop in a limitless ocean. What is an ocean but a multitude of drops.”

Trump signals ‘peace’ while expanding military footprint in Iran conflict

Contradictory statements from the White House coincide with troop deployments, market volatility, and renewed scrutiny of the United States’ military infrastructure across the Gulf.

Trump’s Board of Peace is a dystopia in motion

If any entity requires immediate disarmament and deradicalization, it is Trump and his so-called Executive Board.

The American peace movement we need today

We are aware of several promising ways in which peace groups are already grappling with the imperative of renewed activism and are contemplating action in cooperation with others to counter authoritarianism and protect U.S. democracy.

Lessons from the movement to stop the ‘war on terror’

Jeremy Varon’s new book, “Our Grief is Not a Cry for War,” honors the commitment and complexity of the movements to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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‘The Dark Side’: Dick Cheney’s legacy from Iraq invasion to US...

We speak with The Nation’s John Nichols, author of multiple books about Cheney, who says the neoconservative leader had a “very destructive” impact on the world.

Terms of surrender: The conspiracy to obstruct justice in Palestine

Normalization of the Israeli regime and its crimes must end. Genocide must be a red line. And Palestine must be free.

Gaza: Deal or no deal?

Prisoners have been released, the bombings have stopped. But Palestinians are no closer to determining their own future

When Maria Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize, ‘peace’ has...

Why Maria Corian Machada is a horrible Peace Prize choice by Venezuelan-American, Michelle Ellner.

The Wall Street Journal has many ways to deny genocide

Looking at how the paper does so enables us to not only refute their falsehoods, but also to gain insight into the tactics Gaza genocide denialists, and genocide deniers in general, employ.

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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?

The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.

Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press

The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues

Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...

What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?

Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...

A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.

Now you see them… now you don’t

Women leaders and Trump 2.0.