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Peace Activists Conduct a Public Shaming of the University of Arkansas for its Links to a Prominent Nuclear Bomb Parts Supplier for the U.S. Government
On Friday, January 22nd, a group of peace activists held a rally on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville to protest a contract between...
Despite unprecedented U.S. military and economic pressure, North Korea has kept its economy stable and increased the power and scope of its nuclear deterrent, forcing Washington to temper its bellicosity and come to the table.
With the inauguration of a new administration in January 2021 following a year of decline for...
Two U.S. peace researchers, Michael T. Klare, professor emeritus of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College, and Joseph Gerson, president of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security, have launched a new organization, the Committee for a SANE U.S.-China policy that seeks to counter the U.S....
Amidst a deadly global pandemic, rising threat of climate change, and nuclear war, The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (The Bulletin) has set its 2021 clock at 100 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been to armaggedon.
In a press conference on Wednesday, January 27th, Rachel Bronson, the director...
Over Museveni's 35 years of rule, U.S. Presidents from Reagan to Trump still love him as much as they loved his even more murderous predecessor, Idi Amin, and for the same corrupt reasons
In March 1998, President Bill Clinton went to Africa, where he waxed lyrical about a "new generation"...
When Oliver Stone’s blockbuster film JFK premiered in 1991, it delivered a hugely embarrassing shock to academic historians, Democratic Party grandees, corporate media pundits and other respected purveyors of conventional wisdom.
That’s because, for the preceding 27 years following Kennedy’s assassination, all of them had been faithfully, if falsely, promulgating the myth...
The Sad Story of How a Once Progressive Nation Became an Outpost of the American Empire
“We perceive it as natural that once again we are on the way to war, part of our every day,” explained Vibeke Schou Tjalve, senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies.“People believe...
His two children could lose their father for the rest of their lives
Although important legal principles are at stake in the extradition trial of Julian Assange, for which a ruling will be handed down on January 4, it should not be forgotten that there are important human issues at...
Huge Military Budgets, Covert Operations, Drones and Assassinations—but hey, at least he didn’t start another major war
By any objective measure, Donald Trump has been one of the worst presidents in American history.
His administration exacerbated inequalities, fomented social divisions, encouraged nativist and white supremacist groups, gutted environmental protections, mishandled the...
How the U.S. has imposed puppet leaders in Afghanistan who have allied with the Taliban, advocated ethnic cleansing, and betrayed their people
During the 2020 election campaign, President-elect Joe Biden made it clear that if he won, he would support a sustained U.S. military footprint in Afghanistan of up to...