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Sir! No Sir! in 50-Minute Version
This is a shortened 50-minute version of Sir! No Sir!, one of the great antiwar films about GI resistance during the Viet Nam...
Dr. Martin Luther King’s Prophetic Warning: Denouncing the Merchants of Death
We all have a choice to hold ourselves accountable in the face of Dr. King's warning that we are approaching spiritual death....
Judgment Day for the Merchants of Death
Intervening in this surging, greed-driven, incredibly lethal mess, an international panel of 10 jurors offers 13 recommendations for action.
Change the Conversation from Doomsday to Peace Day
First published by World BEYOND War he Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, with the advice of Albert...
Vietnam: The Other Side
A 9-minute video with Vietnamese and American veterans from that war presents in a nutshell what we did in Viet Nam and how wrong it was.
Three Reasons to Vote Against the Nomination of Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense
Why I will Protest the Nomination of Fox News commentator and Trump’s Buddy Pete Hegseth to be Secretary of Defense
1987: The Great Workers’ Struggle in South Korea
Involving over a million workers, the strikes and militant tactics won significant gains in pay and conditions.
Why Jimmy Carter Pardoned Draft Resisters
To say “Jimmy Carter pardoned war resisters” is a bit like saying that “Abe Lincoln freed the slaves.” Grassroots movements laid the table.
Genocide in Gaza: Western Moral Collapse in the Age of Hyper-Imperialism
Author Vijay Prashad argues that the global North has heightened its reliance upon force to insist on obedience.
Intolerable Opinions in the Time of Genocide
John Lilburne was an unconquerable revolutionary and courageous radical for justice, the 17th-century equivalent of Julian Assange.
Spent 26 Christmases in Prison, and Not One Has Been Merry
I have endured 26 Christmases behind bars. This year is no different. No family gathering. No Christmas meal. No gifts from my loved ones. No visits.
GIs Talk About What VFP Means to Them
t’s not unusual to be somewhere representing Veterans For Peace and meet a veteran who didn’t know...
Don’t Deify Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter may have done good works out of office, but in power he fomented a series of domestic and foreign policy disasters.
Saving the Savior Tree
Like the Christmas tree, the olive tree is a savior tree—but one that doesn’t just light up for a season. It lights the way for generations.
Amazing Peace
Into this climate of fear and apprehension, Christmas enters/Streaming lights of joy, ringing bells of hope/And singing carols of forgiveness.
Is the Catholic Church Okay with Biden’s Genocide?
In a “Hail Mary Pass,”, Will the Pope Use the Threat of Excommunication to End the Biden Administration’s Complicity in Genocide in their meeting on January 10?
How Fascism Came
America’s democracy was destroyed by the two ruling parties who sold us out to corporations, militarists and billionaires. Now we pay the price.
Ireland hears the call of Palestine, but is it free to answer?
Today, Ireland is a country reckoning with the cost and consequences of abandoning its ideals for economic gain.
Veterans For Peace: Pete Hegseth Is a Terrible Choice
The national veterans organization is calling on senators to vote NO on Pete Hegseth for U.S. Defense Secretary.
Organized Oblivion
Gaza is destroyed. It will not, at least for the Palestinians, be rebuilt. Those who lived there will spend their lives, like...
Nina-Clara Schnall
The world lost someone special this past November. Nina Schnall left us all too soon at only 54 years of age.
The World Knows Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza
Now, there can be no reset buttons. Rather, the global momentum of Palestine’s liberation will accelerate in the coming months and years.
Genuine Solidarity Is Not Conditional: Gaza and Unity around Palestine
While many solidarity groups, despite their differences, have always found margins for unity around Palestine, many did not.
The Trillion-Dollar Blob
America has a bellicose, bullying, immature leadership that thinks military might is the answer to everything
Israel Expands Invasion of Syria, Launching Massive Airstrikes After Assad’s Fall
What went unmentioned in Biden’s celebration of the fall of Assad was the role the U.S. played in the Syrian civil war.
What Now?
My only consolation, if one can call it that, is realizing that just about everyone I know and care about is feeling as distraught as I am.
Solutionary Rail’s Time Has Come
The promise of globalization, deregulation, and the financialization of everything has failed to make life better for most people.
Susan Abulhawa’s Powerful Address at the Oxford Union
We’re not here to debate whether Israel is an apartheid or genocidal state. This debate is ultimately about the worth of Palestinian lives.
Trump’s Cabinet Picks Are Agents of Contempt, Rage and Vengeance
With them, Trump will tear down any person or institution that tried to restrain his worst impulses or hold him accountable.
Out of the Footlocker
During that school year, I learned one pivotal fact: Racial discrimination against black people was considered normal in Wilmington.
Iraqi Abu Ghraib Torture Victims Win $42 Million in Lawsuit Against US Contractor
It is the first time that a U.S. defense contractor has ever been successfully sued for managing a torture program.
Biden Declares “National Emergency” because of the Threat posed by Nicaragua
What “unusual and extraordinary threat” does Nicaragua pose to a country with 50 times its population and the world’s biggest military budget?
‘What You Need To Know’: Impressions of an IDF Reservist in Gaza
The writer is a reserve Israeli soldier who took part in the ground manoeuvres in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip over the past year.
Democrats in A Collective State Of Panic
Joe Biden is escalating conflict in the Ukraine proxy war against Russia and endangering the whole world in the process.
The Entire History of Zionism’s Injustices, In One Bedouin Village
In Israeli-Jewish discourse, the destruction of a Bedouin community barely raises eyebrows, let alone makes headlines.
People’s Arms Embargo’ at Travis Air Force Base
For 90 minutes, they showed banners such as “Stop Arms for War Crimes” and “Stop Travis: No US Weapons for Genocide.”
Christ in the Rubble: A Liturgy of Lament
As Israel continues its genocidal assault on Gaza, Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac’s Christmas sermon from 2023 is more relevant than ever.
Gaza: The Horror Was Not What I Expected
“I felt I was a voyeur, a tourist, a spectator. I felt disgust and disbelief. And I felt an absence within me that I cannot articulate.”
‘People’s Arms Embargo’ at Travis Air Force Base
Seventy-five protesters gathered at Travis Air Force Base to briefly interrupt the shipment of weapons to Israel from this air base.
Who Is Authorizing Biden’s Nuclear Brinkmanship While The President’s Brain Is Missing?
People who say you get more conservative as you get older are just projecting their own personal shittiness onto everyone else.
Statement From Iranian Vice President Javad Zarif
Some will call it propaganda. I just urge folks to listen and move toward ending the horrid slaughter, and wars.
Immigrant Prisons: All About Profit
Amplifying these stories is one of the strongest actions we can take to keep the focus on the human impact behind the profits.
Dear Kamala
It’s Sunday, November 10. Five days since your shocking loss of the election. These are the headlines at al-Jazeera this morning
In Our Name
Many who call America their home are deeply horrified by the relentless and pervasive mass murder of the people who call Gaza their home.
Veterans For Peace Brings Renowned Anti-War Activist Ann Wright to Milwaukee, Calls For Armistice in Gaza
Her anti-war activism has taken her to Washington, D.C., Gaza, Israel, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Yemen, Cuba and North and South Korea.
The Democrats Deserved to Lose 1,000 Times Over
Predictably, the Democrats hemorrhaged working-class support and managed to lose ground in virtually every part of their base.
Bill Targeting Pro-Palestinian Non-Profits Up for Another Vote This Week
The legislation would empower the Treasury secretary to designate groups as “terrorist-supporting organizations” without presenting evidence.
Every Viable Resistance
Massive strikes and boycotts could be the most effective tactic we have to stop the genocide in Gaza and the march toward WW3.
Making the Unseen Visible
Many of the effects of nuclear fallout and radiation have been intentionally hidden by governments around the world.
Jacob Darwin Hamblin and Linda Marie Richards| Fall 2024 Edition
Biden’s Legacy Is Genocide, War, And Nuclear Brinkmanship
This is the legacy that Democrats were forced to spend the last election cycle pretending is great and awesome. It’s no wonder they lost.
If Only Everyone Understood That The US Deliberately Provoked This War
It’s about as monstrous a thing as you could possibly come up with. Yet here it is, still unfolding in all its blood-spattered glory.
Why Trump Won
The Democratic Party has moved so far to the right that it now proudly considers the Cheney clan to be some its most important allies.
Voting is Not Harm Reduction
The cost of citizenship has always been our sovereignty, the conditions of citizenship have always been in service to white supremacy.
How To Go On In A World Full Of Cruelty
Even in the ugliness, there is immense beauty. Even in the grief. Even in the anger. Even in the waves of sadness. Beauty is always present.
The Unspeakable Crime
couple of weeks ago a silent procession walked through Eureka, California, streets, dressed in...
Why I Will Not Vote for the Democratic Party’s Presidential Candidate
Supporting the Democratic Party and its candidate gives them a mandate for the genocide in Gaza and the plans for war against Iran.
My Conversion to Peace Activist
I retired blissfully ignorant of politics and foreign affairs, at least partially due to being shielded from the effects of my nation’s wars.
‘Haunted by Our Genocide From Half a World Away’
The most important lesson I learned is that America has been in an endless cycle of violence abroad, for pretty much ever.
The New Nuclear Push: New Package, Same Lies
Safe-energy activists on Long Island are now concerned that the area might again be targeted for nuclear power plants.
We, Israelis, Call For Global Sanctions on Israel
More than 3,300 Israelis have signed this open letter asking the world to use ‘every possible sanction’ to ‘save us from ourselves.’