Either everything will change for the better or one or both of the twin dangers of environmental and nuclear apocalypse will change everything for the worse

Can we make opposing militarism mainstream, respectable, acceptable? Can we make warmongering marginal, shameful, despicable? We have to try

Nobody can say that if thousands followed his lead we wouldn’t have a world transformed. Nobody can say that he didn’t make a major difference, exposing injustice and changing public policy and culture for the better

The ability of the U.S. military to buy off other government agencies as needed is just one reason to move huge truckloads of funding out of it and into decent things

For better or worse, we’re all in the same boat. Making fun of the jackasses drilling holes in their end of the boat isn’t a recipe for survival. Asking boat-patch-haters to start patching up the holes is

While war monuments are being toppled, a war flag is being raised.

Moving money from militarism to other investments can be economically beneficial, and certainly all necessary steps to assist people in the transition would cost a small fraction of the money involved.

What if we need tremendous outrage over the reckless discarding of lives based on the number of lives, not the date on which they are lost or the location in which they are lost or their demographics or details?

A new collection of maps found here displays what militarism looks like in the world

This is a time to recognize what’s needed and what services are actually a service