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Obamobedience
30 Aug 2012; posted by the editor - United States
By David Swanson
Virginia Senate candidate Tim Kaine spoke prior to Obama's speech on Wednesday in Charlottesville, Va. He had praise for anyone signing up to go to war in Afghanistan. "We can still put our positive thumbprint on that nation," he said, to wild cheers. Imagine the competition among the world's nations to get our thumbprint next! Imagine what it costs to get our assprint.Tags: US war27 August and the Strangest Dream
29 Aug 2012; posted by the editor - United States
By David Swanson
In a few places around the country groups are working to make 27 August a local or national holiday as a result of reading "When the World Outlawed War."Tags: Kellogg-Briand PactVeterans For Peace To Protest at RNC and DNC
23 Aug 2012; posted by the editor - United States
Veterans For Peace is to have members protesting at both the Republican National Convention in Tampa and the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte.
Tags: Veterans For Peace18 combat veterans a day commit suicide
22 Aug 2012; posted by the editor - United States
By Ann Wright
Seven months ago, in December, 2011, 24-year-old Brian Arredondo hanged himself in a shed in his mother's backyard. Brian was the brother of US Marine Corps Lance Corporal Alexander Arredondo, who was killed in Iraq in 2004. For seven years Brian had had difficulties dealing with the death of his brother.In Welcoming a Warmonger to Town
22 Aug 2012; posted by the editor - United States
By David Swanson
Wow, it's been a while, but protests of war makers in Charlottesville will be back big time next Wednesday. It seems like ages since we protested John Yoo, or even since our threatened protest of Dick Cheney scared him out of coming to town. But opportunity is knocking and a massive nonviolent protest is sure to answer.Tags: Barrack Obama, WarmongerMy Visit to a London Embassy Under Threat
20 Aug 2012; posted by the editor - Human Rights, United Kingdom, Ecuador
By Jeff Cohen
London—On Friday, I visited Ecuador's embassy here in the capital of the former British empire and saw a building surrounded by a phalanx of cops, with several of them at the front door. The embassy is in an upscale neighborhood near Harrods department store. The intimidating police presence was ordered by a Conservative government that waxes eloquent about the need to respect (British) embassies overseas.
Peaceful Action Urged on Iran Crisis
20 Aug 2012; posted by the editor - United States, Israel, Iran
By Leah Bolger
With the Non-Aligned Movement meeting this week in Tehran, Veterans For Peace is urging the organization of 120 nations not formally allied with any major power bloc to take steps to deter the Israeli-American threats of war against Iran over its nuclear enrichment program.You Say You Want a Revolution of Values?
20 Aug 2012; posted by the editor -
By David Swanson
I spoke this past weekend at the Kateri Peace Conference in upstate New York ( http://kateripeaceconference.org ) along with Kathy Kelly, John Horgan, Ellen Grady, James Ricks, Matt Southworth, Walt Chura, and many others. Watch for the video, because a terrific discussion took place around a series of questions posed by the event organizers. The following are some of the initial responses I had prepared beforehand.Tags: Kateri Peace ConferenceAssange Case Exposes the Hypocrisy of the British Government
19 Aug 2012; posted by the editor - United States, United Kingdom, Sweden, Ecuador
By Memet Uludag—Irish Anti War Movement
It was the year of 1998, the former Chilean military dictator, mass murderer and torturer Pinochet had arrived to UK, a country he called his “most favoured country in the world”. No wonder why he would choose Britain as his favourite place. He was kept there under a very comfortable house arrest, effectively under the protection of the British government. Court trials, endless diplomatic debates and meetings with his favourite person, Thatcher, kept Pinochet in Britain safe and well until he was allowed to return to Chile in 2000 and to die in his comfortable military hospital bed some years later.Tags: Julian Assange, political asylumDemilitarization 'Not a Dirty Word'
15 Aug 2012; posted by the editor - United States
by Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1997)
Human Security for Global Security: Demilitarization is not a dirty word, nonviolence is not inaction, and building sustainable peace is not for the faint of heart
The political, social and economic changes we all face are serious. Some might call the state of the world today chaos. The ongoing, dramatic changes in technology and communications are other elements adding to uncertainty and the feelings of insecurity that people around the globe are confronting. No one can predict the future but we can work hard to shape the outcomes.Tags: demilitarisationNBC's Celebrity Warriors: ...barely survived the first week!
14 Aug 2012; posted by the editor - Entertainment, United States
By David Swanson
If you sat through the two-hour debut of NBC's "Stars Earn Stripes" on Monday, you heard the promotion for next week's show: "They barely survived the first week!" And you thought to yourself: "Uh, no, that was meNine Nobel Peace Laureates Call on NBC to Cancel 'Stars Earn Stripes'
14 Aug 2012; posted by the editor - Entertainment, United States
War isn't entertainment and shouldn't be treated like it is
August 13, 2012
An Open Letter to Mr. Robert Greenblatt, Chairman of NBC Entertainment, General Wesley Clark (ret.), Producer Mark Burnett and others involved in "Stars Earn Stripes":
During the Olympics, touted as a time for comity and peace among nations, millions first learned that NBC would be premiering a new "reality" TV show. The commercials announcing "Stars Earn Stripes" were shown seemingly endlessly throughout the athletic competition, noting that its premier would be Monday, 13 August, following the end of the Olympic games.Tags: Stars Earn Stripes, NBCIsrael Likely to Strike Iran Before November?
14 Aug 2012; posted by the editor - Israel, Iran
By Ray McGovern
Israel's 'Bomb Iran' Timetable
More Washington insiders are coming to the conclusion that Israel's leaders are planning to attack Iran before the U.S. election in November in the expectation that American forces will be drawn in. There is widespread recognition that, without U.S. military involvement, an Israeli attack would be highly risky and, at best, only marginally successful.Why Afghanistan Can't Wait
07 Aug 2012; posted by the editor - United States, Afghanistan
by Kathy Kelly and Hakim
Two days ago, we spent three anxious hours in an outer waiting area of the "Non-Immigrant Visa" section of the U.S. consulate here in Kabul, Afghanistan, waiting for our young friends Ali and Abdulhai to return from a sojourn through the inner offices where they were being interviewed for visas to come speak to audiences in the United States.Tags: Afghan Peace VolunteersBeyond the Two-State Solution
07 Aug 2012; posted by the editor - Features
By David Swanson
Fast forward to 2048. The world is greatly changed, and in this year China invades France, occupying Paris and a good portion of the nation. The French are massacred, evicted, raped, chased, and terrorized. Towns are destroyed. Every town and village has its name changed to a Chinese name, and its prior existence erased from any history books produced from then forward.Sanctions: Diplomacy's Weapon of Mass Murder
07 Aug 2012; posted by the editor - United States, Iran, Japan
By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
In 1945, the United States of America dropped two atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagaski immediately killing 120,000 civilians. The final death toll of the horrendous bombings has been conservatively estimated at well over 200,000 men, women, and children. To this day, the world continues to be shocked and horrified by the visual images that captured the death and destruction caused by the bombs. The negative impact prompted America to devise a different weapon of mass murder—sanctions.Environmental Pillar calls for halt to all fracking activity in Ireland
03 Aug 2012; posted by the editor - Environment, Ireland
The Environmental Pillar has just published its policy on shale gas, calling for cessation of all fracking activities in Ireland. "The known impacts of fracking are so serious that the Government needs to act now to put a stop to all fracking activity in Ireland" said Michael Ewing speaking on behalf of the coalition of 27 national environmental organisations."
Tags: fracking, Environmental PillarHarry Truman and Memory of Mass Murder
01 Aug 2012; posted by the editor - United States, Japan
By David Swanson
Harry Truman spoke in the U.S. Senate on June 23, 1941: "If we see that Germany is winning," he said, "we ought to help Russia, and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible."Tags: Japan, Harry Truman
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