From Jewish Voice for Peace: Right now, Palestinians, Israelis and all of us with family on the ground are terrified for loved ones. We grieve the lives of those already lost and remain committed to a future where every life is precious, and all people live in freedom...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Here’s a reminder of a stark reality: When President Joe Biden finally ended the disastrous Afghan War in 2021, the Pentagon war budget went up by roughly $50 billion. The Afghan War was costing America almost...
Answer to a Close Friend on Palestine Dear Miriam, Sorry, this is as brief as I can make it. I was nine years old (1948) when there was HUGE celebration in the Bronx at founding of the state of Israel. No one told me that Arabs had lived on that land for centuries and...
Around 50 people staged a peaceful sit-in at the Washington DC office of Bernie Sanders on Wednesday to request that the Senator from Vermont discontinue his support for the war in Ukraine. Nearly a dozen of them left in handcuffs. “He knows diplomacy is the right...
The Fellowship of Reconciliation is horrified at the new war that has just broken out in Israel/Palestine. FOR, a pacifist organization since its conception in 1914 in Europe and 1915 in the United States, condemns the initiation of this latest stage of violent...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Did you know the Russia-Ukraine War is a great “investment” for the United States? A terrific opportunity to kill lots of Russians and to destroy lots of their military equipment at a relatively cheap cost to...
While reading the latest news of the war in Ukraine today, I was reminded of a song by Emma’s Revolution. The name of the song is Who Lies? It asks four fundamental questions that can be applied to just about any war: “Who Lies? Who Dies? Who Pays? Who Profits? ...
Both US and UK weapons storehouses are nearly bare. Takes a lot of firepower to keep the Russo Ukraine war going in perpetuity. So many hundreds of thousands must die to protect US European dominance. What to do? While the UK will simply stop sending weapons they...
From Due Dissidence: Keaton Weiss and Russell Dobular report on the arrests of Code Pink activists ordered by Senator Bernie Sanders' staffers. Code Pink was on Capitol Hill yesterday trying to lobby members of Congress to support a negotiated peace and end US...
A report published Wednesday revealed that the vast majority of four-star U.S. military officers who have retired over the past five years went to work for the arms industry, a revolving door that drives soaring profits and near-record military spending. The report –...
