Major Danny Sjursen served as an officer in the US Army. He was deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan. He is the director of Eisenhower Media Network. He is a senior fellow at the Center ...
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 ...
A study of the first ten months of the Washington Post’s opinion columns in 2009 found that pro-war columns outnumbered antiwar columns by more than 10 to 1. (By FAIR) The Washington Post’s publication of ...
While claiming to “preserve peace,” NATO has a history of bombing civilians and committing war crimes. The three smartest words that Donald Trump uttered during his presidential campaign are “NATO is obsolete.” His adversary, Hillary Clinton, retorted that NATO ...
(By Nick Lehr, The Conversation) A decade ago, in October 2009, Barack Obama learned that he had won the Nobel Peace Prize. He was uncomfortable with the prize, saying that he didn’t feel that he ...
Sanders and Warren may not intend their criticisms of Russia and China to justify record Pentagon spending, but the military-industrial complex is seizing on it for precisely that purpose. Among the frontrunners in the Democratic ...
The Women’s March on the Pentagon is a week away. To help spread the word, we are publishing below a press release from organizers of the march. PRESS RELEASE: WOMEN’S MARCH ON THE PENTAGON In direct ...
Presidents and policy changes come and go, but behind the scenes it is business as usual, and the business of America, is war. It’s getting hard to remember what life before Trumpdom was like. The ...
Why protest nuclear weapons? Because more than 70 years after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which killed hundreds of thousands of civilians, instead of disarming and banning nuclear weapons ...
Politicians and businesses want you to think questioning war disrespects veterans like me. They’re wrong. (OtherWords, by Kevin Basl) “How do you motivate men and women to fight and die for a cause many of them don’t believe ...
U.S. exiting deal would bring ‘historic regret’ to the US, Iran’s Rouhani warned. (Common Dreams, by Andrea Germanos) President Donald Trump just announced that he’ll deliver his decision Tuesday on whether to withdraw the United States ...
“The victims of our government’s lethal actions deserve better, as does the American public in whose name the Trump administration is secretly killing people.” (Common Dreams by Jessica Corbett) The Trump administration on Tuesday flouted ...
A bride was among those killed at a wedding party, and at least 45 were wounded according to reports. (Common Dreams, by Julia Conley) Weeks after President Donald Trump thanked Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince for his ...
The Poor People’s Campaign offers an antidote to a poisoned and militarized culture that has perverted the national agenda. (Inequality.org) This piece is adapted from a speech given by Brock McIntosh at a mass meeting ...
“You’re so brave. I wish I could do that.” A personal account of war tax resistance. (National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee, Erica Leigh) It’s been almost ten years since I decided to start resisting ...
With call-in action and letters, groups ramp up pressure on lawmakers to back Sanders-led resolution. (Common Dreams, Andrea Germanos) Anti-war groups on Friday are urging their supporters to pick up the phone to tell U.S. senators ...
An analysis by FAIR found that a clear corporate media pro-war bias existed in articles that reported on Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s speech at Stanford University last January. According to a report by Fairness ...
On October 4 2017, four U.S. soldiers, who were part of a 12-man Special Forces team led by Green Berets, died in Niger. They were killed in an attack by about 50 armed terrorists with ties to ...
(National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee) Last month, war tax resister Randy Kehler was interviewed on Local Bias, a public access TV show in Massachusetts, by guest host Marian Kelner. Click here to watch the ...
Death Rate Is 31 Times Official Pentagon Figure (AntiWar.com, by Jason Ditz) It’s no real mystery that the Pentagon’s “official” civilian death toll from its airstrikes in places like Iraq is low, often insultingly low. ...
The first seven months of the Trump administration have already resulted in more civilian casualties than under the entirety of the Obama administration. (The Conversation, Steven Feldstein, Boise State University) When President Donald Trump took office ...
The F-35 cost: It’s become the most expensive defense program in world history, at around US$1.5 trillion before the fighter is phased out in 2070. (Michael P. Hughes, Francis Marion University) The F-35 was billed as ...
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