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Defeating Terrorism - Theirs and Ours
28 Nov 2015; posted by the editor - Features

By Nicolas Davies
“...at the very moment the number one nation has perfected the science of killing, it has become an impractical instrument of political domination.” - Richard Barnet, Roots of War, 1972
France and Russia’s military responses to mass murders in Paris and Egypt echo the United States’ response to mass murders in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania in 2001. As Oxford University researcher Lydia Wilson told Democracy Now on November 17th, Islamic State (IS) is “seemingly delighted” by this warlike response to its latest atrocities.

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Global Warming's Unacknowledged Threat-The Pentagon
25 Nov 2015; posted by the editor - Environment, International

By Gar Smith / Environmentalists Against War
During the 15 November Democratic Presidential Debate, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders sounded an alarm that “climate change is directly related to the growth of terrorism”. Citing a CIA study, Sanders warned that countries around the world are “going to be struggling over limited amounts of water, limited amounts of land to grow their crops and you’re going to see all kinds of international conflict”.

Tags: anti-war, climate change

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Limits of Liberal War Opposition
24 Nov 2015; posted by the editor - United States

By David Swanson
Robert Reich’s website is full of proposals for how to oppose plutocracy, raise the minimum wage, reverse the trend toward greater inequality of wealth, etc. His focus on domestic economic policy is done in the traditional bizarre manner of U.S. liberals in which virtually no mention is ever made of the 54% of the federal discretionary budget that gets dumped into militarism.

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5 Things to Do About ISIS, or Can an American Without a Gun "Do Something"?
19 Nov 2015; posted by the editor - Interviews

By David Swanson
Toward the end of altering our idea of what counts as “doing something”, I offer this composite representation of numerous media interviews I’ve done.

Tags: anti-war, David Swanson

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Culture of Peace Best Alternative to Terrorism
17 Nov 2015; posted by the editor - International

By David Adams, World Beyond War
As the culture of war, which has dominated human civilization for 5,000 years, begins to crumble, its contradictions become more evident. This is especially so in the matter of terrorism.

Tags: anti-war, nuclear terrorism

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On Aggression as a First Choice: Is There Another Way?
14 Nov 2015; posted by the editor - Features

By Herbert J. Hoffman, Ph.D., Member VFP National, Maine and New Mexico
It was my senior year in high school—many years ago—and I was seated, along with many of my football teammates, on the auditorium stage. It was a pre-game rally before 1500 classmates and teachers. The auditorium was filled with energy. The main speaker was a much revered former outstanding athlete at Central High School. A man in his 50’s, he spoke with passion about the upcoming football game. It was exciting! However, I found myself feeling revulsion as he concluded his speech by saying, “Go out there and Kill, Kill, Kill!”, repeating the last three words numerous times as the audience joined in.

Tags: anti-war

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Peace Advocate Climbs U.S. Navy Satellite Dish in Sicily
11 Nov 2015; posted by the editor - United States, Italy

By David Swanson
On the morning of Armistice Day, 11 November 2015, longtime peace activist Turi Vaccaro climbed to where you see him in the photo. He brought a hammer and made this a Plowshares action by hammering on the enormous satellite dish, an instrument of U.S. warfare communications.

Tags: Armistice Day, anti-war, Sicily

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