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The New Mandate on Defense

January 15, 2013

BARNEY FRANK - There were so many encouraging signs for liberals in the election results this year that one of the most significant has been overlooked.

Tags: Barney Frank, budget, military, military spending, Ron Paul
Posted in Analysis, January 2013 | No Comments »

Those Who Say “I Support the Troops” Should Just Stop, Out of Respect for the Troops

January 11, 2013

MICHAEL MOORE - I don't support the troops, America, and neither do you.

Tags: Afghanistan veterans, homeless veterans, Iraq veterans, Michael Moore, military, military rape, military suicides, Support the Troops
Posted in Analysis, January 2013 | No Comments »

Repeal the Second Amendment

January 5, 2013

TOM HASTINGS - I'm a peace person, as are my friends. I am striving to be nonviolent and have tried to learn nonviolence for years. I can point to alternatives to guns, I can argue against them, and that's about it. What we need -- what would dramatically change our national discourse on this...

Tags: Constitution, guns, military, Nonviolent, peace, Second Amendment, Tom H. Hastings
Posted in Analysis, January 2013 | No Comments »

How to Build a Peaceful Future for Our Children

January 1, 2013

LAURA FINLEY - The root problem underlying the Sandy Hook mass shooting tragedy is that the U.S. is a violent, militaristic culture that, in virtually every institution, demonstrates violence as a means of solving problems.

Tags: guns, Laura Finley, media, military, public schools, Sandy Hook Elementary, violence
Posted in Analysis, January 2013 | No Comments »

Here’s How to Cut the Military Budget

December 16, 2012

RANDY SCHUTT - ilitary spending (inflation-adjusted) has nearly doubled in the past 12 years, from $361.3 billion in FY2000 to $610.9 billion in FY2012. This massive increase has taken place during a time when the United States has the most powerful military ever in history and when we have no significant military enemies. The...

Tags: culture of endless money, David Stockman, military, military spending, national defense, Randy Schutt, Robert Gates, Ronald Reagan
Posted in Analysis, December 2012 | No Comments »

U.S. Has Responsibility to Help Make Peace in Gaza

December 14, 2012

DAVID MCREYNOLDS - We should be reminded, in looking at anything involving Netanyahu, that we are not dealing with an "ordinary" head of state, but with a man of the far right. His late father was an open racist whose comments about the Palestinians are fully the equal of the Nazi views of...

Tags: AIPAC, David McReynolds, Hamas, Hezbollah, military, Morsi, Netanyahu, Prime Minister Abbas, Sheldon Adelson, Shin Bet
Posted in Analysis, December 2012 | No Comments »

Message from Sen. Merkley About Military Spending

December 6, 2012

JEFF MERKLEY - This letter is a reply from Sen. Jeff Merkley to PeaceWorker Editor Peter Bergel in response to Bergel’s request that Merkley support major cuts to the military budget during the upcoming “fiscal cliff” debate, rather than allow cuts to social security, medicare, or other remaining components of the safety net. Let’s...

Tags: Department of Defense, fiscal cliff, medicare, military, PeaceWorker, Peter Bergel, safety net, Sen. Jeff Merkley, social security
Posted in December 2012, What's Happening In the Movement | No Comments »

Millions of Unexploded Bombs Lie in Waters off U.S. Coast, Researchers Say

October 17, 2012

ALLISON BARRIE - Lurking (and leaking) beneath the world's oceans are an estimated 200 million pounds of unexploded and potentially dangerous explosives -- from bombs to missiles to mustard gas. Texas A&M oceanographers William Bryant and Niall Slowey documented two such dumpsites in the Gulf of Mexico recently. They conservatively guess that at least...

Tags: Allison Barrie, bombs, chemical munitions, chemical warfare material, chemical weapons, coastal artillery batteries, Department of Defense, discarded military munitions, DMM, gas rigs, International Dialogue on Underwater Munitions, Marine Protection, military, mustard gas, Niall Slowey, oil rigs, Research, Sanctuaries Act, seafloor, terrorism, Texas A&M, toxic chemical, weapons advancements, William Bryant
Posted in Big Picture, October 2012 | No Comments »

10,000 Americans Thank Italy for Convicting CIA Agents

October 11, 2012

DAVID SWANSON - Almost 10,000 Americans have sent messages to the Italian Embassy in Washington thanking Italy's high court for upholding the conviction of 23 Americans (22 CIA officers and one military official) for the offense of kidnapping a man off the street in Milan on February 17, 2003, and shipping him to Egypt...

Tags: 2003, 23 convicts, Abu Omar, CIA, CIA operatives, David Swanson, Egypt, Egyptian, Exceptionalism, February 17, George W. Bush, Italian, Italy, Julian Assange, Milan, military, Mitt Romney, President Obama, Republican Party, Richard B. Cheney, RootsAction.org, Sweden, torturer, U.S. Army, U.S. government, U.S. Justice Department, U.S. president, United States, Vicenza, Washington, Wikileaks
Posted in Analysis, October 2012 | No Comments »

How Hawkish Are Americans?

October 3, 2012

LAWRENCE S. WITTNER - In the midst of a nationwide election campaign in which many politicians trumpet their support for the buildup and employment of U.S. military power around the world, the American public’s disagreement with such measures is quite remarkable. Indeed, many signs point to the fact that most Americans want to avoid...

Tags: 2002, 2012, 2014, activist, Afghanistan, Albany, alliances, American, anti-military, Chicago Council, China, diplomacy, Dr. Lawrence S. Wittner, economic aid, election campaign, foreign policy, Global Affairs, government, greenhouse gas emissions, International Criminal Court, international treaties, Iran, Iraq, isolationist, June, May, military, military spending, Millennium, North Korean, nuclear facilities, nuclear test, nuclear weapons, Politicians, President George W. Bush, South Korea, SUNY, Tennessee, U.S., U.S. Senate, UN, United Nations, United States, wars, Working for Peace and Justice
Posted in Analysis, October 2012 | No Comments »

Republican Small Government Aspirations Exposed

September 17, 2012

LAWRENCE WITTNER - The Republican Party has stood up with remarkable consistency for the post-9/11 U.S. government policies of widespread surveillance, indefinite detention without trial, torture, and extraordinary rendition. It has also supported government subsidies for religious institutions, government restrictions on immigration and free passage across international boundaries, government denial of collective bargaining rights...

Tags: ACLU, Afghanistan, Bradley Manning, civil liberties, El Salvador, environmental regulations, George H. W. Bush, GOP, Grenada, Iran, Iraq, jingoism, Julian Assange, Kuwait, Lawrence S. Wittner, Libya, military, Mitt Romney, Nicaragua, Panama, public education, public health, racial minorities, Randolph Bourne, Republican Party, Ron Paul, statism, the Balkans, U.S. Representative, welfare services, widespread surveillance, Wikileaks
Posted in Analysis, September 2012 | No Comments »

Peace and Feminism: Understanding the Connection

September 7, 2012

ERIN NIEMELA - About a week ago I had the unfortunate experience of being followed off a bus on a dark corner. The man who followed me made it clear that he intended harm – even growling at me as I hastened into a nearby open market. The experience was benign compared...

Tags: 1996, 2012, Aida Paskeviciute, American peace movement, and hungry, April, bra-burning, butch, Cold War, conflict resolution, Daniel Tosh, David Cortright, Elin Bjarnegård, Erik Melander, Erin Niemela, feminazis, feminism, Fortune, hairy, Helena Swanwick, International Studies Association, Joan K. Buschman, July, legislative branch, lesbian, Mahatma Gandhi, man-eating, Marissa Mayer, military, modern warfare, Patrick M. Regan, peace, Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas, Political Psychology, Silvo Lenart, U.S. citizen, United States Census Bureau
Posted in Analysis, September 2012 | 3 Comments »

Nine Nobel Peace Laureates Call on NBC to Cancel “Stars Earn Stripes”

August 24, 2012

ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU - “Stars Earn Stripes” is not just another reality show. Hosted by retired four-star general Wesley Clark, the program pairs minor celebrities with US military personnel and puts them through simulated military training, including some live fire drills and helicopter drops. The official NBC website for the show...

Tags: Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Betty Williams, Dr. Shirin Ebadi, Jody Williams, Mairead Maguire, military, Military training, Olympics, President José Ramos-Horta, President Oscar Arias Sanchez, Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Stars Earn Stripes, U.S. Armed Forces, war
Posted in August 2012, What's Happening In the Movement | 1 Comment »

How to Divest from Armageddon

June 1, 2012

PATRICK HILLER - In 1951 the U.S. gs partovernment’s Civil Defense Branch produced the film Duck and Cover. ... Even at that time the usefulness of the proposed duck-and-cover maneuver in the face of the utter annihilation arising from a nuclear blast was questioned.

Tags: budget, economy, military, military spending, nuclear weapons, Patrick T. Hiller, peace, Pentagon, taxes, war
Posted in Analysis, June 2012 | 1 Comment »

Judge Blocks Controversial NDAA

May 23, 2012

ADAM KLASFELD - A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction to block provisions of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act that would allow the military to indefinitely detain anyone it accuses of knowingly or unknowingly supporting terrorism.

Tags: Adam Klasfeld, AUMF, civil liberties, First Amendment, freedom, Freedom Seven, Homeland battlefield provisions, military, National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA, terrorism, war
Posted in Big Picture, May 2012 | 1 Comment »

U.S.-Afghan Strategic Partnership: Where Are the Voices of Afghan Citizens?

May 9, 2012

ERIN E NIEMELA - As the NATO summit approaches in May, throngs of peace protestors are expected to descend on Chicago to pressure the U.S.-led, 28-nation military alliance for an end to the war in Afghanistan. But for some activists, it will be too late to protest the greatest threat to a peaceful Afghanistan:...

Tags: Afghan Defense Minister, Afghanistan, Erin Niemela, General Abdul Rahim Wardak, General John R. Allen, military, military spending, Strategic Partnership Agreement, war
Posted in Big Picture, Editorials, May 2012 | 2 Comments »

Backward Glance and Some Advice for Dick Cheney

April 25, 2012

CRAIG CLINE - Former Vice President Dick Cheney is the fortunate beneficiary of a heart transplant. I hope his new heart has more compassion than his old one did.

Tags: Craig Cline, Dick Cheney, economic justice, economy, freedom, Halliburton, heart transplant, military, military spending, Obama, terrorism, war, war profiteer
Posted in April 2012, Letters | 1 Comment »

Thinking the Unthinkable on Iran

April 13, 2012

EDITOR'S NOTE - This article adds to the peace movement’s usual analysis, which views control of oil supplies as the driving force behind U.S. policy toward Iran, the notion that nuclear nonproliferation might actually be the prime objective. Whether or not you believe that nonproliferation is the most important aspect, it is reasonable to...

Tags: Iraq, Israel, jonathan schell, middle east, military, nuclear power, nuclear weapons, Obama, war
Posted in Analysis, April 2012, Big Picture | No Comments »

Congress Needs to Hear No Iran War Message NOW

April 5, 2012

REBECCA GRIFFIN - Tell your representative and senators to oppose bills that bring us closer to war with Iran, and to support diplomacy.

Tags: Afghanistan, Congress, freedom, Iraq, military, peace, Rebecca Griffin, war
Posted in April 2012, What's Happening In the Movement | No Comments »

Audit: U.S. Defense Department Can’t Account for Billions for Iraq

February 3, 2012

JOSH LEVS - The U.S. Defense Department cannot account for about $2 billion it was given to cover Iraq-related expenses and is not providing Iraq with a complete list of U.S.-funded reconstruction projects, according to two new government audits.

Tags: budget, Department of Defense, Iraq, lost millions, middle east, military, negligence, reconstruction, spending
Posted in Big Picture, February 2012 | 1 Comment »

Charlottesville, Va., City Council Passes Resolution Opposing War on Iran

January 24, 2012

DAVID SWANSON - The City Council of Charlottesville, Virginia, home of Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, and the University of Virginia, passed on Tuesday evening, January 17, 2012, a resolution believed to be a first in the country, opposing the launching of a war on Iran, as well as calling for an end to current...

Tags: activism, domestic policy, Iran, military, oil, peace, renewable energy, war
Posted in Big Picture, January 2012 | No Comments »

NDAA: Congress Signed Its Own Arrest Warrants

January 12, 2012

NAOMI WOLF - I never thought I would have to write this: but - incredibly - Congress has now passed the National Defense Appropriations Act, with Amendment 1031, which allows for the military detention of American citizens. The amendment is so loosely worded that any American citizen could be held without due process.

Tags: arrests, Bill of Rights, Congress, defense, ethics, Guantanamo, homeland security, human rights, military, morals, parliament, rules
Posted in Big Picture, January 2012 | 1 Comment »

How About Sending Social Services to Occupy Encampments Instead of Police?

December 5, 2011

MICHAEL LERNER - Call Mayor Bloomberg of NYC, Mayor Jean Quan of Oakland, or whoever is your mayor and suggest that they support the Occupy movement by providing encouragement to social workers, teachers, clergy and others to go down to the Occupy encampments and volunteer time and energy to help those who badly need...

Tags: encampents, freedom of speech, military, Occupy, pepper spray, police, rights, taxes, unfair treatment, Wall St.
Posted in Big Picture, December 2011 | 1 Comment »

A 51st State for Armed Robotic Drones

November 5, 2011

DAVID SWANSON - Weaponized UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), also known as drones, have their own caucus in Congress, and the Pentagon’s plan is to give them their own state as well.

Tags: condemning land, drones, environmental destruction, government abuse, land, military, testing, UAV
Posted in Big Picture, November 2011 | No Comments »

Libya and Beyond: How Did We Get There and What Happens Next?

August 29, 2011

REP. DENNIS KUCINICH - Libyan rebels have entered Tripoli. As gun battles break out across the city, it is timely to enter into a discussion as to how the rebels arrived there. It is time to review the curious role of NATO and the future of U.S. interventionism.

Tags: Afghanistan, budget, junta, liberty, Libya, military, NATO, profiteers, rebels, US involvement
Posted in Analysis, August 2011 | No Comments »

Schrader Requests Obama to Withdraw from Iraq Now

August 5, 2011

REP. KURT SCHRADER - Rep. Kurt Schrader joined 94 other members of the House in sending the following letter to President Barack Obama urging him to remove all U.S. troops by this year’s end. – Ed.

Tags: civilian contractors, Congress, Iraq, military, peace, US intervention, war, withdrawal
Posted in August 2011, Big Picture | No Comments »

Mexicans Use Nonviolence to Address War on Drugs

June 8, 2011

PATRICK T. HILLER - A new, citizen-driven nonviolent reality is emerging in the escalated war on drugs in Mexico.

Tags: border, citizenship, corruption, drug cartels, immigration, Mexico, military
Posted in Analysis, June 2011, Opinion | No Comments »

The Search for War Never Ends in DC

June 6, 2011

NORMAN SOLOMON - In times of war, U.S. presidents have often talked about yearning for peace. But the last decade has brought a gradual shift in the rhetorical zeitgeist while a tacit assumption has taken hold -- war must go on, one way or another.

Tags: Afghanistan, budget, humanitarian, military, peace, terrorism, war
Posted in Analysis, June 2011, Opinion | No Comments »

Defense Cuts? Military Cuts? Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off!

May 15, 2011

DAVID SWANSON - The New York Times has posted seven super-short columns on how to cut the U.S. military. All seven seem to support cutting the military in one way or another. That's excellent, and I don't mean to complain, but . . . .

Tags: benefits, budget cuts, health care, military, pension, Pentagon, retirement, spending, war
Posted in Analysis, May 2011 | 1 Comment »

Leave Iraq On Time With Dignity

May 9, 2011

LAWRENCE J. KORB - Like jilted lovers, the U.S. military and many of those who got U.S. into the senseless invasion of Iraq have been pressing the Iraqi government to change its mind about removing all U.S. troops by the December 2011 deadline.

Tags: casualties, defense, dignity, Iraq, military, pride, safety, self-governing Iraq, war, withdrawal
Posted in Analysis, May 2011 | No Comments »

Our Security is Threatened and We Don’t Have Time for War

February 5, 2010

PETER BERGEL: The government and the Pentagon are right. Our national security is definitely at risk. Afghanistan? Iraq? Al Qaeda? Small potatoes. Yemen? Iran? Even smaller. Nope, the big threats are not military. Nor can they be addressed by the military.

Tags: fascism, global warming, military, national security, Peter Bergel, Vision, war
Posted in Editorials, Feb 2010, Opinion | 1 Comment »

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