Originally posted at ConsortiumNews In this special report from the Syrian capital, Jeff Klein describes a people getting back on their feet after the defeat of jihadists in Ghouta, while explosives remain a part of daily life. In Damascus A loud and persistent booming woke […]
The peace and justice movement faces new and difficult conditions in the Trump presidency. Sharply increased military spending, escalated wars in the Middle East and Afghanistan, and threats against North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba, are coupled with increased anti-immigrant, anti-Arab, and anti-Muslim rhetoric and […]
The potential firing of Robert Mueller and/or Rod Rosenstein has focused a great deal of angst and hand-wringing on the looming potential for a constitutional crisis. Not nearly enough attention, on the other hand, has been paid to the one that is already upon us. […]
Rep. Katherine Clark pointedly declined to affirm the right of Palestinians to peacefully protest this week or to condemn Israeli military violence directed at Palestinian protesters in Gaza, even as Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey spoke out in favor of protesters’ rights, and after […]
Saturday’s suspected nerve gas attack on the Syrian rebel stronghold of Douma, leaving more than 40 dead and over a thousand injured, has drawn a stark and largely partisan divide between the doves and hawks in the American foreign policy establishment, and the situation has […]
On April 2nd, 2018, Cambridge City Counselor Quinton Zondervan’s resolution on the Oppressive Policies of the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman was adopted. The resolution criticizes the violent and warmongering policies that Saudi Arabia has used during its war in Yemen. The resolution went […]
An open letter to the leaders of USA, South Korea and North Korea, signed by Massachusetts Peace Action along with more than 100 US civil society groups, was released at the UN March 28 by Jackie Cabasso, Executive Director of Western States Legal Foundation. The letter expressed […]
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