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Tell the U.S. Congress: No More Weapons to Anywhere

While U.S. weapons shipments to Israel violate numerous laws, so do its arms shipments elsewhere — and nowhere is there a moral case for them. The weapons business accounts for over a half million deaths per year on average, as…

Culture as a weapon of peace

In the current context marked by senseless wars that inflict suffering and destruction on innocent populations, the need to break the silence through art has emerged. This need gave rise to the idea of a musical documentary that chronicles the…

Captured Catastrophe: Preserving Hiroshima’s Atomic Bomb Visual Legacy

The Visual archives of Hiroshima atomic bombing consists of 1,532 photographs and two films recorded in Hiroshima between August 6 and the end of December 1945 by citizens directly affected by the atomic bombing, as well as by photographers from…

New military prison sentence for three Israeli conscientious objectors

The three Israeli conscientious objectors Itamar Greenberg, Yuval Moav and Oryan Mueller were sentenced to a second term in military prison for their refusal to serve in the IDF and to take part in the destruction of Gaza. Greenberg and…

On the Need to Dismantle the Settler-Colonial Bloc at the UN

WEOG, the UN grouping anchored by the Anglo countries, Israel, and European states, wields disproportionate power to undermine human rights and international law. What do two South Pacific countries, two North American countries, one country in the Middle East, and…

NATO: Not A Tenable Option

Remarks on Canada-Wide Peace & Justice Network webinar on August 28, 2024 When NATO gathered in Washington D.C. several weeks ago, we held a counter-summit and a rally, did a bunch of interviews, wrote a bunch of articles, etc. All the videos…

Who Wants to Kill and Die for the American Empire?

The Associated Press reports that many of the recruits drafted under Ukraine’s new conscription law lack the motivation and military indoctrination required to actually aim their weapons and fire at Russian soldiers. By Nicolas J. S Davies “Some people don’t want to…

Holding the Press and White House Accountable: Solomon’s Afterword on the Gaza War

In Norman Solomon’s new Afterword in the paperback edition of his book War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine, the author excoriates the White House for arming a genocide with assistance from a negligent…

Anti-war protests in Germany against government military intervention in Russia-Ukraine conflict

Large anti-war demonstrations were held across Germany this weekend against the government’s military intervention in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Demonstrators gathered to express their opposition to the German government’s military and diplomatic policies and to call for a…

The stakes in the global conflict: whether or not to perpetuate US imperialism

A global conflict is underway. It proceeds surreptitiously, step by step, by doses, like a poison. From one episode to the next, it gets worse. It is not yet a full-scale war, but it is approaching it at an accelerating…

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