Monday, May 18, 2026

Tag: war

Space Force’s blabbermouth-in-chief

The odds are our commander-in-chief has just given a case of the jitters to the entire defensive—and offensive—apparatus of the nuclear world.

Over there is now over here

The world, in other words, has turned upside down.

COVID-19 and the parallel nuclear war and climate change threats

We can create a new and better world—but we must fully commit ourselves to it and work for it, “pressing, making changes.”

Pivot to peace must replace US pivot to war with China

People need to promote and work toward peace as a top priority as the risk of conflict escalates.

V-E Day plus 75

The “new times” upon which the nation has now embarked will pose their own distinctive challenges, as the Covid-19 pandemic makes unmistakably clear.

Trump must choose between a global ceasefire and America’s long lost...

Like his predecessors from Truman to Obama, Trump has been caught in the trap of America’s blind, deluded militarism.

Beware the Pentagon’s pandemic profiteers

Hasn’t the military-industrial complex taken enough of our money?

Meet the new generation of tax resisters refusing to pay for...

In an age of never-ending wars, climate change and an escalating pandemic, it is now being explored by millenials and younger people.

UN ceasefire defines war as a non-essential activity

War is a luxury that the Secretary General says we must manage without for a while.

We have met the enemy and it’s a tiny virus

Hundreds of billions of bucks for arms, nothing for hospital beds, medical tests, masks and ventilators.

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The fuel to my revolutionary optimism

As distant as it may seem, I am only two generations removed from the 1948 Catastrophe of Palestine, where over 750,000 Palestinians were displaced from their land, and thousands were massacred.

Amazon deforestation falls to eight-year low as scientists warn gains remain fragile

Researchers credit stronger enforcement and environmental protections in Brazil while warning that fires, illegal logging, and political threats continue to endanger the rainforest.