When it comes to our nation’s military affairs, ignorance is not bliss.  What’s remarkable then, given the permanent state of war in which we find ourselves, is how many Americans seem content not to know. There are many reasons for this state of affairs.  Our civilian leaders encourage us to... » read this article

Come Home, America a national network of Americans from across the political spectrum is forming on the 7th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq to oppose U.S. war and Empire. “After 7 years of the Iraq war, 8 years of war in Afghanistan and in the midst of a ‘Long... » read this article

FORT FRANCES, ONTARIO: Gene Stoltzfus 1940-2010 – PRESENTE! Wednesday, 10 March, Christian Peacemaker Team’s founding director Gene Stoltzfus died of a heart attack in Fort Frances, Ontario while bicycling near his home on the first spring-like day of the year. He is survived by his wife Dorothy Friesen and many... » read this article

The event on the House floor Wednesday afternoon was monumental - the first major Congressional debate about US military operations in Afghanistan since lawmakers authorized the invasion of that country in autumn 2001. But, as Rep. Patrick Kennedy noted with disgust on Wednesday, the House press gallery was nearly empty.... » read this article

Enough is enough! It’s time we up the ante and demand that our voices be heard and heeded. It’s time that the logical and rational voices of reason get a Peace of the Action. While the wars in Central Asia and the Middle East rage hotter and hotter, and while... » read this article

Thomas Cleaver writes: I met many memorable individuals who stopped by the Oleo Strut coffeehouse in Killeen to see for themselves what was going on with the GI antiwar movement. One such was Professor Howard Zinn, the author of A People's History of the United States, who stopped by one... » read this article

“I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they're doing. I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine... » read this article

Media critic Norman Solomon and the Media Education Foundation have released a documentary titled “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death.” The film is based on Solomon’s book of the same name. War Made Easy exposes a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin... » read this article

Statement of the Socialist Equality Party (Canada) 23 January 2010 Demonstrations and rallies are being held in cities across Canada this Saturday to protest against the minority Conservative government’s two-month shutdown of parliament. While the protest movement against prorogation was initiated from outside the political establishment and its official “left... » read this article

Bulletin:  U.S. Supreme Court ruling today could bring back the death penalty for Mumia Abu-Jamal, Activist, Intellectual and Political Prisoner NO DEATH PENALTY FOR MUMIA! ALL OUT FOR 1/20 EMERGENCY DEMO! TOMORROW, WED, Jan. 20, 4 PM-7 PM, HARLEM STATE OFFICE BLDG, 125TH & 7TH "All you pen devils knew... » read this article

Video below provided by RT News:         Human Rights Attorneys and Activists Hold Rally, March and Briefing to Demand Closure of Base and Oppose Preventive Detention in U.S. January 11, 2010, Washington, D.C. – To mark the beginning of the ninth year of detention without charge or trial at... » read this article

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Abby Tomlinson voted for President Barack Obama, hoping that he would help end the war in Iraq quickly. But the Lubbock woman said she’s disappointed in what the "peace" candidate has accomplished along those lines, nearly a year after taking office. Two wars continue. The Iraqi war may soon wind... » read this article

On Sat., Dec. 12, 2009, Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) was one of the featured speakers at the emergency End-the-U.S.-Wars rally. See for background:  http://www.enduswars.org/ The event was held in Lafayette Park, opposite the White House. Rep. Kucinich has acted as the conscience of the House of Representatives in opposing... » read this article

Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, responds to the claim of some Barack Obama supporters that the left is being too hard on the president. -------------------------- AT A reception I attended the other day a progressive acquaintance came up to me and said the left "must stop... » read this article

On Sat., Dec. 12, 2009, ex-Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) was one of the speakers at the emergency “End-the-U.S.-Wars” rally. See for background: http://www.enduswars.org/ The event was held in Lafayette Park, directly opposite the White House. Rep. McKinney ran for President of the United States in the 2008 election on the... » read this article

Following months of Pentagon and ruling class pressure to expand the U.S. war in Central Asia, President Barack Obama formally announced he had already issued orders to send some 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan when he addressed West Point Army officers and the country on Dec. 1. His task was... » read this article

The current escalation of the Afghanistan war comes at a new political moment. Unemployment is over 10%. Cities and towns are slashing basic services right and left. People are losing health care in droves, nothing is being done about the foreclosure crisis, and the U.S. is going to Copenhagen empty... » read this article

5 December 2009 European foreign ministers meeting in Brussels for a two-day conference have signaled that they will do all they can to back the military surge in Afghanistan announced this week by US President Barack Obama. In so doing, they are defying the clear will of their populations, which... » read this article

Forty years ago today, black-and-white photographs of slaughtered women, children and old men in a Vietnamese village shocked the world -- or that portion of the world willing to believe American soldiers could gun down unarmed peasants and leave them to die in streets and ditches. The Plain Dealer, in... » read this article