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Stark Contradiction at Root of US-China Conflict
Which has the greater claim on the support of decent humans everywhere? The 1.4 billion Chinese dreamers or a tiny US governing elite?
Whales Could Save the World’s Climate, Unless the Military Destroys Them First
The U.S. military is the single largest consumer of petroleum products in the world and the largest emitter of greenhouse gases.
Evidence Implicates British State in Northern Ireland Murders
New report shows that throughout the 30-year conflict in Northern Ireland the British military and police, waged a “dirty war.”
Bury My Heart with Leonard Peltier
An innocent man, locked up behind bars for 44 years, Peltier is now America’s longest-held political prisoner. Take these actions today…
America Is Reaping What It Sowed in Ukraine
After decades of U.S. military disasters based on such one-sided narratives, Americans should know better by now.
Navy Unwilling to Release Report on Red Hill Water Contamination
Hawaii’s Governor gets wishy-washy about permanent shut down of jet fuel tanks contaminating Oahu’s drinking water.
Pundits Claim Criticizing US-Russia Policy Makes You An Agent
What is going on with the outright asserters that Fox News host Tucker Carlson is literally an agent of the Russian government?
North Korea: Victim of the US Military-Industrial Complex
The media’s portrayal ignores the long, sorry history of failed negotiations between the US and North Korea.
Message from Mazin Qumsiyeh and the Dalai Lama
I am proud to count among my friends so many who had shed zionism, white supremacy, selfishness/greed, or other self-destructive habits.
Who Is Really Causing the Crisis at the Russia/Ukraine Border?
Lifelong peace and justice activist Bruce Gagnon lays out the truth behind who is causing the crisis at the Russia/Ukraine border.
Failing Tonkin Gulf Test on Ukraine
Deja vu all over again, as everyone in Official Washington is pounding their chests and talking tough, as they are now on Russia and Ukraine.
For God’s Sake Boys, STOP THIS WAR SHIT!!!
We’ve seen this before. The U.S. creates a situation, digs in its heels and makes ultimatums—and tens of thousands die.
Ukraine: Stripping Away the Bullshit
Threats and counterthreats fly between Washington and Moscow: Is the world on the brink of war? Who is the aggressor and who is to blame?
World to United States: Join the Treaty!
Activists marked the coming into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons by demanding that the U.S. join the pact.
Guantánamo: Shut It Down!
Vietnam War veteran looks back at the history of American exceptionalism on the anniversary of the opening of the U.S. prison at Guantanamo.
Veterans For Peace Issues Its Own Nuclear Posture Review
Veterans For Peace has released its own assessment of the current global threat of nuclear war, ahead of the Biden Admin’s review.
‘Somehow This Madness Must Cease’
t was appropriate today, as we mark the national holiday for Martin Luther King Jr.'s...
There’s More to Martin Luther King Jr. Than ‘I Have a Dream’
From GOOD Magazine (2013) based on a lesson by Craig Gordon on the Oakland Unified School District Urban Dreams website and...
Show Me an Old Rebel
Do not show me a young rebel, whose eyes are bright and whose tail is bushy. Young rebels are fine and good, but they are...
Poem (I lived in the first century of world wars)
I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane, The newspapers would arrive with...
Portrait of a Young G.I. as an Artist
Emerging from their war -- a time and a place where strangers wanted him dead and his elders preferred him dancing on a string...
The Ministry of Fear
Well, as Kavanagh said, we have lived In important places. The lonely scarp Of St Columb’s College, where I billeted For six...
Mother Earth: Her Whales
An owl winks in the shadows A lizard lifts on tiptoe, breathing hard Young male sparrow stretches up his neck, big head,...
Veterans’ Healthcare for Mental and Environmental Illnesses Under Attack
Not content with gutting welfare programs, conservatives are now targeting former soldiers, who are often poor or working class.
Japanese Antiwar Resistance During WWII
The resistance against the increasing militarism, exacerbated by deprivation and misery, has been underreported.
What War With Russia Would Look Like
Wendy Sherman aims to lecture the Russians on the cost of hubris. Instead she may be set to lead all down a path of ruin.
Why Russia Is Crazy
Russia’s December 2021 demands are described by numerous news articles, but the list of demands itself is found in very few places.
The U.S. Makes a Mockery of Treaties and International Law
The U.S. claims it operates under a “rules-based order”—but the term is not the same international law recognized by the rest of the world.
Editorial: Recognizing the Terrorists, States That Lie and Deceive
Truth is the only weapon we have that can directly counter the lies that are driving us to war and environmental destruction.
Native American Bear (Mato): Gift to Mother Earth and Her People
Like a mother bear protects her young, leaders who possess bear medicine stand up for what is right and fight for what is good and true.
Covid Colonizes the Future
The future does not look bright, regarding the health of the human species. What it looks like is, well, lots of people dying from covid.
Chuck Kaufman: A Great Man Has Left Us
He had one goal in life: to dismantle the US war machine before it dismantled more of us. His example lives on in many of us.
The Dead and the Living: Britain’s Dirty War in Northern Ireland
“It’s always there in minute detail. I can see that night in my head as clearly as I can see you now. I can see the ditch on fire.”
Give Nature a Seat at the Governing Table
An oak tree that “owns itself” has become emblematic of a newly energized, transformative legal concept: Rights of Nature.
The January 6 Anniversary, Julian Assange and the Erosion of Democracy
The invasion of the Capitol was an assault on democracy. So too is Biden’s continued persecution of Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange.
Teaching, Learning While Creating Theater in the U.S. Prisons
Chris Hedges discusses his book “Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison.” “God ‘Caged’ in Jersey,” he declares.
Climate Crisis at the Top of the World
By 2050, the key drivers of major climate change will be feedback loops at both ends of the temperature spectrum.
The Struggles of Ofer Cassif, an Anti-Zionist in Israel’s Knesset
“The fact that I am a Jew myself drove them crazy… If you are an Israeli Jew you must support Israel and the crimes it commits.” – Ofer Cassif
The Italian Communist Whose Radical Children’s Books Shaped a Generation
Cherished by generations of readers, his irreverent fairy tales encouraged children to question authority and think for themselves.
New Year’s Prediction: U.S. Cold War on China Will End in Ten Years
The RAND Corp. has fallen victim to their own propaganda, that the Chinese government is oppressive and people yearn to be free from it.
America’s Foreign Policy Death Spiral
Never has a new “national security” policy paradigm of cooperative internationalism been more desperately needed.
Dissenting POWs: The Forgotten Story
POW Gene Wilber called for an immediate U.S. troop withdrawal “so that the Vietnamese can solve their own problems.”
World War I: The 1914 Christmas Truce
After discovering their commonalities, lower-class conscripts from both sides soon found it difficult to “hate the enemy.”
Editorial: Is Political Art a Contradiction?
Can a political belief be expressed in art form without diluting the power of the political idea? These are issues we grapple with.
Wildfire Surge of Omicron Confirms: Healthcare for Profit More Deadly
The U.S. has had the most COVID-19 deaths, while China has been able to break the chain of infection each time there has been an outbreak.
bell hooks, We Will Always Rage On With You
On the passing of bell hooks — the Black feminist, the cultural critic, the philosopher, the gadfly, the storyteller, the love warrior.
The US Empire’s Slow But Determined Execution of Julian Assange
The journalist and Wikileaks founder committed the greatest sin. He exposed the imperial project as a criminal enterprise.
Why We Must Defend Julian Assange
Julian Assange is one of the political prisoners that the US claims not to have and it’s disheartening the way many have abandoned him.
New York Times Airstrikes Reporting Ignores Daniel Hale
The influential news organization should give the whistleblower proper credit and call for Biden to immediately pardon him.
Honduras Getting Rid of Regime Washington Could No Longer Support
For the first time ever, the United States seems to be hoping that a socialist government in Latin America will succeed.
Susan Schnall for Agent Orange Relief on Law and Disorder Radio
Susan Schnall, a Navy nurse during the Vietnam War, is co-coordinator of the Vietnam Agent Orange Relief and Responsibility Campaign.
Assange and the Assurances of ‘Civilized’ Torturers
In persisting with having Wikileaks’ Julian Assange extradited from the UK, the US continues to expose its own systemic crimes.
Will Julian Assange Be Extradited?
Interview with Max Blumenthal, Nils Melzer and Kristinn Harfnsson on the latest in the extralegal prosecution of Julian Assange.
The Judicial Kidnapping of Julian Assange
What is at stake is both a courageous man’s life and the conquest of our intellects and sense of right and wrong: indeed our very humanity.
CIA Hijacks UK Judiciary for Vengeance on Julian Assange
Are the CIA and its contractors able to bully not only the U.S. Department of Justice, but also the UK judiciary?
After World War II, Tens of Thousands of U.S. Soldiers Mutinied and Won
Troops flexed their political muscle, directly challenged their commanders with a demand to return home and won.
Fabiola Letelier del Solar: Portrait of an Indispensable Woman
Attorney Fabiola Letelier del Solar has stood up to aggression and repression for decades, making her more feared than fearful.
1.5 Million Bolivians March for Democracy, President Arce’s Government
President Luis Arce thanked Bolivian citizens for their support, pledged to continue working to rebuild country and economy with the people.
Doug Rawlings on Peace, Poetry, and a New Generation of Vets
“I don’t want to pretend it’s mystical, but in a sense it is — I don’t know where a poem comes from,” shared VFP Maine president.