While the U.S. wages war abroad—bombing Iran, escalating conflict, and staging a spectacle of power for political gain—a different kind of war is being waged here at home. This war at home is quieter but no less destructive. The casualties are not in distant deserts or foreign cities. They are our …
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The West’s Reckless Militarization and the New International Order
The unprovoked criminal aggression of Israel and its US and European patrons against the Islamic Republic of Iran is a predatory war against the sovereignty of the nations of the majority world and the self-determination of their peoples. Of course, first of all it is an existential war for the …
Read More »Anti-War Advocates Demand Trump ‘Return to Diplomatic Path’ After Illegal Strikes on Iran
“President Trump has attacked Iran based on the same type of false information put forward by those who consistently seek to drag our nation into unnecessary and catastrophic wars,” said one critic. Anti-nuclear groups and progressives in U.S. Congress were among those condemning President Donald Trump’s bombing of three nuclear …
Read More »Oppression Breeds Resistance, Organization Sustains It
Defeating the war on Black/African people requires solidarity with all who are oppressed. And resistance against our common enemy. As community defenders, organizers, and residents resisted Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Los Angeles this past weekend, the state has responded by calling in the FBI and Border Patrol SWAT …
Read More »Faltering Negotiations Point to the Need for a Wider, Stronger Paradigm for Peace
If the year 2025 had started on a note of at least some limited hope for bringing peace to a deeply troubled world, the subsequent months have led to a steady diminishing and erosion of these hopes. Even diminished hopes for salvaging some kind of peace agreements in difficult situations …
Read More »Global Network Statement On Golden Dome
Donald Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ proposal is a continuation of Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative. Trump calls it a ‘layered defense shield, safeguarding the American homeland with unwavering precision, ensuring the security and resilience of our nation’. Trump shared few specifics in the May 20 news conference, saying “Golden Dome will …
Read More »‘A Declaration of War’: Trump Sends National Guard to LA Over Anti-ICE Protests
“The Trump administration’s baseless deployment of the National Guard is plainly retaliation against California, a stronghold for immigrant communities,” one advocate said. U.S. President Donald Trump deployed 2,000 National Guard members in response to protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity in Los Angeles over the weekend, as Secretary of Defense Pete …
Read More »Trinity of Terror: Arms Control Between the US, Russia, and China
While nuclear crises between the “Big Three” can still be managed, preventing an arms race will be much more difficult. The rise of China as a prospective strategic nuclear superpower increases the challenge of maintaining deterrence stability and implementing nuclear arms control over the world’s most dangerous weapons. In light …
Read More »The West’s Self-Destructive Peace and Conflict Illiteracy
War-Preparation and militarism are now the main factors that keep the West together – and will make it fall faster. The Western world has lost its consciousness, perception, and instruments of conflict analysis, resolution, peace-making, and reconciliation. They’ve been squeezed out by militarism’s kakistocrats – a political science term that means …
Read More »Under Primacy, Weapons Sales Will Always Supersede Human Rights
Executive Summary The U.S. government’s expressed commitment to human rights is routinely undermined by its actual commitment to maintaining America’s global military primacy. Since the 1970s, Washington has cast itself as a defender of global human rights, when Congress passed laws to bar the U.S. from providing security assistance to human rights …
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