Tag: peace
Saving America and the world by slashing US military spending
Instead, we need to spend this huge totally wasted share of our national wealth on our own long neglected social needs and on saving this country and world from an increasingly obvious looming environmental catastrophe.
The new Congress needs to create a green planet at peace
We must transform our lethal energy system to one that sustains us, while creating genuine national and international security at peace with all of nature and humanity.
Bring the troops home, but also stop the bombing
Sustained advocacy toward the Trump administration and the new Congress by peace-loving Americans will be critical if we are to fulfill this resolution.
We can end the US war on Syria
The people were right, and the military was wrong. The war on Syria never should have happened and now must end.
US and Hungary only two nations to vote no on helping...
"While the vote does not represent a formal withdrawal from the Compact, it does send a signal that the wealthiest country the world intends to abdicate global leadership in working towards the Compact's objectives."
Peace activists’ best hope? The Sunrise Climate Movement
The Sunrise Movement, now mainly a climate movement, is a potentially an enormous Trojan horse for smuggling the climate-justice-and-peace agenda inside the halls of power.
Will Congress reclaim war powers and end US military involvement in...
"The Senate will be able, for the first time, to debate and vote on a check on Trump's war-making in Yemen"
Peacemakers, warmongers and fence sitters: Who represents you?
You can check out the differences between Democrats and Republicans, and see who are the real hawks and doves in each party.
Enough folded flags: Military families speak out against the Afghanistan War
A nation that doesn't remember the people sent to fight on its behalf has no business sending more.
Gandhi’s despair and the struggle for truth and love
So as humans are beckoned to extinction within the next few years, Gandhi would remind us that ‘The future depends on what we do in the present.’
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A First Lady in a New York Cell
One year later, Cilia Flores, the wife of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, languishes in a cell in New York City, having been dragged out of her room and kidnapped by U.S. forces on the Jan. 3 attack on Venezuela.
Why guns?
From personal power to autocracy in Donald Trump's America
Daniel Ellsberg speaks to us as the war on Iran continues
"We owe it to our troops, as well as to other potential victims of this war, to speak the truth about ourselves: what we believe, what we reject, and what we want.”
Homer nails uncivilized, all-devouring MAGA Trump brutality – and strategic aikido to return fire
As Polyphemus falls to the aikido of seeming weaklings, Trump underestimates top experts, battling Democrats, anti-oligarchy citizens and committed activists promoting prosperity for the many, even (yikes!) sharing the wealth.
Iranian American scholars denounce US-Israeli attack, warn regime change efforts will backfire
Far from leading to a popular uprising against the government, as President Trump has encouraged, the U.S.-Israeli attacks have forced Iranians to worry about their immediate safety from the bombs.