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“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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

“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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Academic Neta Crawford warns that if Donald Trump follows through on his threats of war, emissions will soar and the planet will pay the price  Carbon footprint of Israel’s war on Gaza exceeds that of many entire countries  Revealed: Nato rearmament could increase emissions by 200m tonnes a year The …

An 18th century white slaver’s rulebook has, unsurprisingly, failed to serve the interests of a modern, multi-racial democracy. We can do better. People increasingly ask if we are in a Constitutional crisis, but we are past that. We have undergone a regime change, and are operating outside the bounds of …