“In the absence of popular movements strong enough to rip down marble idols and generate public shame, U.S. history lessons omit everything they can and carefully mold anything so large that it cannot be avoided. ...
Donald Trump claims he’s ending the “era of endless wars.” But over the course of his first term, he has come closer to starting new wars than ending the wars he inherited. (Jacobin) On June ...
Abby Martin’s new documentary, “Afghanistan War Exposed: An Imperial Conspiracy,” is a tour de force, a must watch for every American seeking a holistic understanding of American’s longest-running war. (Mintpress News) The perpetual occupation of ...
(David Swanson) The past month’s activism has changed a great deal. One thing it’s helped with is brushing aside the tired old argument over whether government should be big or small. In its place we ...
(David Swanson) By peace journalist Salem Bin Sahel from Yemen (@pjyemen on Instagram) and Terese Teoh from Singapore (@aletterforpeace), World BEYOND War, June 19, 2020 These letters are in Arabic here. Yemen war: Letter from a ...
The U.S. military’s budget, like so many police department budgets, is bloated, and diverts our tax dollars into forces of domination and violence. Now is the time to question our spending priorities at the local ...
Needless to say, this is the best bill introduced into Congress in decades. (David Swanson) Here’s the text of a new bill in Congress: PDF. Here’s a petition from Code Pink promoting it. Needless to say, this ...
“For those paying close attention to the 2019 election, there was never any doubt that the OAS’ claims of fraud were bogus.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) More than seven months after claims of fraudulent ...
(David Swanson) Already we’ve seen, as a result of people taking to the streets in the United States: Four policemen indicted. More racist monuments dismantled. Some minimal and inconsistent limit on what the New York Times editorial ...
The U.S. walking out of the Open Skies agreement is a clear signal that it seeks global dominance. As other countries are unlikely to surrender, we are back to hair-trigger nuclear alerts and the Doomsday ...
The war on Vietnam plays an infinitely larger role in history in the common understanding of a typical U.S. citizen than does what the U.S. government did to Indonesia in 1965-1966. But if you read ...
![U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo joins President Donald J. Trump for a working lunch with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc in Hanoi, Vietnam, on February 27, 2019. [State Department photo by Ron Przysucha/ Public Domain]](https://citizentruth.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/trump-bolton-pompeo-288x180.jpg "Who Are the Secret Puppet-Masters Behind Trump’s War on Iran? 12")
As with George W. Bush’s false WMD claims about Iraq in 2003, Trump’s real goal is not nuclear non-proliferation but regime change. (Common Dreams) On May 6th, President Trump vetoed a war powers bill specifying that ...
(World Beyond War) I’m adding Christian Sorensen’s new book, Understanding the War Industry, to the list of books I think will convince you to help abolish war and militaries. See the list below. Wars are ...
The first oil tanker that came from Iran’s Bandar Abbas port into the Caribbean is called Fortune. The tanker entered Venezuelan waters on May 24 and was then escorted by the Venezuelan Navy and Air Force ...
Dan Kovalik’s new book, No More War: How the West Violates International Law by Using “Humanitarian” Intervention to Advance Economic and Strategic Interests — which I am adding to my list of books you should read on ...
Biden and policy advisers around him have re-tooled the basic Trump and American foreign policy with slightly friendlier language As America reaches 100,000 coronavirus deaths, President Trump is taking a golf trip and most states ...
(David Swanson) John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man and this TED Talk, has a new book called Touching the Jaguar. You can pre-order it here and get an online workshop and other bonus materials that I haven’t ...
The U.S. government is certainly in the running for worst handling of coronavirus on earth. Where did this grotesque incompetence and indifference to human lives come from so suddenly? What if it was always there? ...
Why the Bouficha Appeal stands for the aspirations of people who want an end to militarized violence on earth. On March 15, 1950, the World Peace Council sent out the Stockholm Appeal, a short text ...
The Trump administration has quietly ramped up a vicious bombing—and covert raiding—campaign in Somalia amid a global coronavirus pandemic. Neither the White House nor the Pentagon has provided any explanation for the deadly escalation of a war that ...
On April 1, Admiral Philip Davidson—the head of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command—told the U.S. Congress that he would like $20 billion to create a robust military cordon that runs from California to Japan and down ...
(David Swanson) In September 2018, I wrote an article about four women who were running for Congress in four separate districts, each speaking against wars and militarism in highly unusual ways. They later all won their ...
Unless Democrats begin to take advantage of the liability Guaidó represents and push back against Trump’s regime change efforts, there seems to be little hope of improving U.S.–Venezuela relations, regardless of who wins the presidency ...
“What we need is not a little tweaking. We need the revolution of values that many tried to find an approximation of in Bernie Sanders. We need a society that empowers and rewards kindness instead ...
The Trump administration immediately denied all involvement, “it has nothing to do with our government,” the president said yesterday. But as the dust settled, the mercenaries immediately began implicating each other – and the U.S. ...
In the early morning hours of Sunday, May 3, speedboats left the Colombian coastlines and headed toward Venezuela. These boats had no authorization to cross the maritime border. They landed on the Venezuelan coastline at ...
(World BEYOND War) A new collection of maps found here displays what militarism looks like in the world. Here’s a brief guide to using and understanding them. Across the top are 10 drop-down menus on these ...
One year since his audacious coup attempt failed spectacularly, Guaidó is once again trying to overthrow the government of Nicolas Maduro. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) Exactly one year since his audacious coup attempt failed ...
While much of the corporate press has blamed Russia and China for the sudden failure of multiple longstanding nuclear treaties, experts put the blame on squarely on the Trump administration. (By: Alan MacLeod, Mintpress News) ...
Israel is not a poor country. It is certainly not the poorest in the world. So why is it the top recipient of US military “aid?” (DavidSwanson.org) —Did you know that the U.S. government has ...
“In the face of both COVID-19 and the climate crisis, we urgently need to shift from a culture of war to a culture of care.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) A new report examining the ...
On April’s Fools Day, U.S. President Donald Trump gave a press conference where he announced a new “counter-narcotics effort” by U.S. Southern Command. “We’re deploying additional Navy destroyers, combat ships, aircrafts and helicopters, Coast Guard ...
“The bottom line is that the Taliban (and Pakistan, which mentors it) would see that the political ascendance of the Taliban in Kabul, whenever it is due, happens with international legitimacy.” In an extraordinary statement ...
“While the world is consumed with the terrifying coronavirus pandemic, on March 19 the Trump administration will be marking the 17th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq by ramping up the conflict there.” While ...
As foreign countries battle for their vested interests, innocent Syrians will continue to suffer. Russia and Turkey have fueled war crimes in Syria, as an independent report from the United Nations (U.N.), -founded commission recently ...
A stronger, more committed and more determined global peace movement could tame the U.S. war machine. February 15 marked the day, 17 years ago, when global demonstrations against the pending Iraq invasion were so massive ...
“The United States is doing a 180 on the near-global consensus to ban the abhorrent and inhumane use of landmines.” (By: Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) The Trump administration announced Friday that it was officially rolling ...
Iran is threatening to be only the second country – North Korea being the first – to withdraw from the landmark 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. On Monday, January 20, Iran’s Foreign Minister announced that they ...
Trump’s blunders have placed us back on the path to a truly catastrophic war, with barricades of lies blocking every off-ramp. The U.S. assassination of General Qassem Soleimani has not yet plunged us into a ...
The U.S. is building a new generation of nuclear weapons and dismantling nuclear arms control treaties, increasing the threat of nuclear war. The decade ends with two major threats to humanity: global warming leading to a ...
“All is well! Missiles launched from Iran at two military bases located in Iraq. Assessment of casualties & damages taking place now. So far, so good! We have the most powerful and well equipped military ...
“Our missiles are big, powerful, accurate, lethal and fast. Under construction are many hypersonic missiles. The fact that we have this great military and equipment, however, does not mean we have to use it.” Trump ...
The only real limit on how the next president employs drone strikes appears to be whatever rules they choose to set for themselves. President Trump’s decision to kill Iranian General Qasem Soleimani on January 2 ...
“Big-name defense stocks are rising…” Defense companies Lockheed Martin and Raytheon scored huge Pentagon contracts in anticipation of military conflict with Iran following the Trump administration’s assassination of Iran’s most powerful general late Thursday. Lockheed ...
Less than two weeks prior to the U.S.’ controversial killing of Iranian General Qassim Suleimani, Iran joined Russia and China for four days of joint naval exercises. In the wake of the assassination of Iranian ...
Endless war is always good for one thing – defense industry profits. Defense stocks soared on Friday after the Ayatollah vowed revenge for the Trump administration’s assassination of Iran’s most powerful general late Thursday, as ...
Today Iran’s “martyrs” are being mourned by millions across the Islamic world – the last men to have fallen to what is being framed as a holy struggle between western imperialism and free men. If ...
Assange is being kept in solitary confinement 23 hours per day, often sedated, in Britain’s notorious Belmarsh Prison. (By: Alan MacLeod, Mintpress News) Julian Assange is dying inside Belmarsh Prison in London. Those are his ...
Despite heightened militarization and oppressive tactics by states, people across the world refused to give in and fought back for their rights to life and dignity. (By Anish R, Umer Beigh and Abhijan Choudhury, Peoples Dispatch) Under ...
Lies are an integral part of national security operations. They seek credibility for government policy. They mislead adversaries, cover up mistakes and failures. (By Gordon Adams, The Conversation) The Washington Post has, after more than ...
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