Month: June 2022 - Page 2 - Massachusetts Peace Action

Getting Mobilized!

June 13, 2022 C. R. Spicer

by C.R. Spicer In twenty-one days, a chick hatches able to walk. Movement capacity is not a chicken or the egg scenario, and yet movements are run by people who can hit the ground running. Relationships are built in small acts. Peter Metz reached out […]

Fascism on the March: “Flag Day” in Jerusalem, May 29

June 13, 2022 Jeff Klein

by Jeff Klein JERUSALEM — I arrived in East Jerusalem by airport shuttle in the early afternoon of Sunday May 29. Preparations for the Flag March were already in full swing, with a massive Israeli security presence around and inside the Old City. My airport […]

South Korean President Yoon Embraces Biden’s New Cold War

June 13, 2022 Seung Hee Jeon

by Seung Hee Jeon During his campaign, U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden pledged to end “forever wars.” After taking office, in January 2021, during his first State of the Union address, he explained that his administration would be committed to “engaging our adversaries and our […]

Biden’s Cuba Policy Changes: Too Little, Too Slow

June 9, 2022 Catherine Henning

by Cate Henning For more than 60 years, the United States has been imposing sanctions on Cuba in an effort to suppress and defeat the Cuban Revolution and the country’s socialist government. This embargo restricts sales to Cuba from the United States and many other […]

NATO ships exercise with Romanian Navy in the Black Sea, 2019. Photo: NATO

The Ukraine War and the World’s Increasingly Dangerous Geopolitical Landscape

June 9, 2022 Joseph Gerson

by Joseph Gerson *First posted in Common Dreams* Russian President Vladimir Putin’s devastating and illegal invasion of Ukraine, launched in large measure to compensate for strategic vulnerabilities caused by NATO’s expansion, has triggered the most tumultuous and potentially dangerous transformation of the geopolitical disorder since […]

Defense Contractors Are Using Tax Dollars to Profit Off War in Ukraine

June 8, 2022 Jonathan King

by Jonathan King This article was originally published in Truthout. If United States taxpayers knew that half the income tax dollars they sent to the Internal Revenue Service every year was being spent on weapons, war and war preparation, political support for such programs might […]

Save the Pine Barrens

June 6, 2022 Hartman Deetz

by Hartman Deetz Editor’s note: The Save the Pine Barrens campaign is working to protect the Atlantic coastal pine barrens in Massachusetts from mining and industrial development by companies like A.D. Makepeace and Borrego Solar. The coastal pine barrens in Plymouth, Carver, and Wareham are […]