Shutdown or no shutdown, not a single war, base-construction project, or war ship has been halted in its course, and the National…
You Really Can’t Imagine a Third Possibility
If any of these wars can be ended, we need to rapidly build on that success to end more wars, and more wars, and the funding of the preparations for wars
Former Bernie Sanders delegates to the 2016 Democratic National Convention have voted to reactivate the independent Bernie Delegates Network
Wars and the preparations for more wars consume a huge amount of oil.
If you won’t address the training of murderers, and you won’t ban guns, and you won’t stop destroying the earth’s climate, what’s left is madness
One should not sell bombs to a government that abuses human rights, which means murders a man without using one of the…
Despite war famously being the means of Americans learning geography, few can even identify Afghanistan on a map. What else have we failed to learn?
Preventing War and Promoting Peace: A Guide for Health Professionals is a valuable new book edited by William Wiist and Shelley White
We need monuments to movements and moments and causes and accomplishments and principles, not to individuals
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