Tag: peace
Are big donors neutralizing peace movement activism?
Peace-washing the anti-war movement and limiting criticism of Biden and Dems.
Progressives welcome ‘incredibly encouraging news’ of planned US withdrawal from Afghanistan
"Let's make sure the U.S. does not continue to fight there via other means—CIA, contractors, airwars, drones."
Enough with the brinksmanship! Let’s give peace a f**king chance
The world’s been going to s**t for too long...
The decline and fall of the American Empire
Will our leaders squander America's only hope for a successful transformation from a decadent and declining empire to a dynamic and prosperous post-imperial future?
Time to grow up: Ending divisions creating peace
It's time for humanity to come of age, to reject all that divides us, to unite and create a space in which peace and harmony can ring out across the world.
FDR’s last speech
FDR’s extraordinarily articulate plea for peace stands out as a beacon for all time.
War zone America?
Military families — most so much more than mine — have already suffered for far too long without watching our own country become a new war zone.
Banned from protesting in the nation’s capital for five years back...
Back in October 1967, I was one of hundreds arrested and beaten on the Mall of the Pentagon during a night-long sit down in front of armed U.S. troops.
‘Right now is the moment to decide if you are pro-peace...
"Congress now has a moral and legal obligation to reassert its power to stop this war and protect innocent people from horrific consequences."
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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!
So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.