"Flag Day Has Been Canceled!"
If that headline sounds a bit like "God Is Dead" to you, you just might be from the United States. Only what the people who live in this one country of the American hemisphere call "an American"...
View ArticleBarbarism, civilization and modern politics: PTSD as a Political Football in...
By John Grant If our wars were to make killers of all combat soldiers, rather than men who have killed, civilian life would be endangered for generations or, in fact, made impossible.read more
View ArticleAs Police Killings of Minorities Mount, Attacks on Police Like the One in...
By Dave Lindorff The tragedy that is America has deepened with the news that several people on Thursday organized a military-style sniper attack targeting police in Dallas during a protest...
View ArticleOn forgetting and forgiving: Killing and Our Current American Crisis
By John Grant Kill one person, it’s called murder.Kill 100,000, it’s called foreign policy. - A popular bumper stickerread more
View ArticleBest Speech a U.S. President Ever Gave
In planning an upcoming conference and nonviolent action aimed at challenging the institution of war, with the conference to be held at American University, I can't help but be drawn to the speech a...
View ArticleMisusing a quote about peace: Obama Calls for Peace and Comity at Home, But...
By Dave Lindorff President Barack Obama made an eloquent plea for sanity and peace following the latest deadly assault on police officers -- this time a gunman with an assault rifle...
View Article750 Sanders Delegates in Convention Walk-Out as Green Party’s Jill Stein...
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View ArticleThe world is at war because it has lost peace (Pope Francis)
But it’s not just the world that has lost peace. I lost my peace. read more
View ArticleYes, There Is an Antiwar Movement
By David SwansonThe demise of the antiwar movement has been greatly exaggerated. Working on planning a series of events in Washington, D.C., next month, and related events around the world, I'm finding...
View ArticleNot just toilet lids Pentagon Money Pit: Unaccountable Army Spending of $6.5...
By Dave Lindorff What if the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services were to report that $6.5 billion in spending by that federal agency was unaccounted for and untraceable?...
View Article#NoWar2016 Events Planned for Washington, D.C.
A major conference presenting alternatives to permanent war has been planned for September 23-25 at American University in Washington, D.C.Main webpage:http://worldbeyondwar.org/nowar2016Events on the...
View ArticleWhy We Must Go to the Pentagon on September 26, 2016
A call to action from the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance (NCNR):As people of conscience and nonviolence we go to the Pentagon, the seat of the United States military might, to call for an...
View ArticleWar Is Never Just: The End of "Just War" Theory
Several weeks back I was invited to speak this coming October at a U.S. university on ending war and making peace. As I often do, I asked whether the organizers couldn't try to find a supporter of war...
View ArticleActing on Bill Ayers' Radical Manifesto
Bill Ayers' short new book, Demand the Impossible: A Radical Manifesto, is different from the typical liberal view of a better world in two ways. First, its goals are a bit grander, more inspiring....
View ArticleTurn the Pentagon into a Hospital
The United States government recently gave more than a million dollars to the family of one victim it had killed in one of its wars. The victim happened to be Italian. If you were to find all the Iraqi...
View ArticleDamned Nations, Cursed Arms Trade
Samantha Nutt has spent decades working on humanitarian aid in war zones. Her book, Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies, and Aid, is rich in wisdom drawn from experience. But more powerful and pointed,...
View ArticleUpcoming Debate on "Is War Necessary." Please Come.
Is War Necessary?A DebateDavid Swanson (War Is A Lie) vs. Roger Bergman ("There are just wars.")Oct. 5, 7:00 p.m., McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael's College.Campus Road, Colchester, Vermont 05439...
View ArticleRenewable Revolutionary Railroad Renaissance
The forthcoming book from creative activist and kayaktivist extraordinaire Bill Moyer and his Backbone Campaign colleagues should remake the United States and limit the oncoming onslaught of climate...
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