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For many centuries, the powerful have helped control their working poor by elevating some of the oppressed to wield the whip. The Romans had the Vigiles, poor men and often ex-slaves who patrolled the streets and fought fires; the Nazis…

What does the nuclear weapons industry talk about when they’re together? I spent three days with 530 government officials, politicians, and corporate contractors in a hotel basement to find out. Part I of this piece, “Articles of Faith,” described some…

What does the nuclear weapons industry talk about when they’re together? I spent three days with 530 government officials, politicians, and corporate contractors in a hotel basement to find out. The nutshell: They talk about “deterrence” as if there is…

Malcolm X was assassinated 58 years ago, on February 21st, 1965, standing at the podium before a crowd in Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom. His wife Betty Shabazz, pregnant with twins, and his four daughters, aged 6, 4, 2 and five months,…

When a cartoonist was recently denounced and canceled for racist remarks, Jon Schwarz pointed out that his resentment at black people for not being grateful for what white people do for them echoed similar resentment over the years for the ingratitude of…

In a rare show of bipartisanship, Republican and Democratic House members put on a united front as they probed how to respond to the perceived growing threat of China. The inaugural hearing of the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the…

There’s something irrational about President Biden’s knee-jerk dismissal of China’s 12-point peace proposal titled “China’s Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis.” By Medea Benjamin, Marcy Winograd, Wei Yu “Not rational” is how Biden described the plan that…

Mayan communities from the Yucatan Peninsula will denounce the abuses and violations of their rights as peoples and the environment caused by the imposition of the Mayan Train at the International Tribunal for the Rights of Nature, which will take…

We are not at the 1-year anniversary of the war, as the Western governments and media claim. This is the 9-year anniversary of the war.  And that makes a big difference. By Jeffrey D. Sachs, Other News, March 1, 2023 The…

First published by Peace and Planet News. We’ve seen an amazing level of bipartisan support!” For what initiative do we hear this rare statement echoed about Congress today? The 15th Annual Nuclear Deterrence Summit, held once again at the Hyatt…