Year: 2022 - Page 25 - Massachusetts Peace Action

The Pentagon Budget, Nuclear Weapons and Human Needs

March 29, 2022 Jonathan King

by Jonathan King and Richard Krushnic One of the most important determinants of our nation’s policies and actions is the federal budget. Each year Congress votes on the division of the Congressional Discretionary Budget among competing programs – Defense, Veterans Affairs, Health and Human Services, […]

Plague of War, Fog of War

March 28, 2022 Robert Cable

By Robert Cable For the Smedley Butler Brigade, Chapter Nine of Veterans for Peace, Greater Boston, Massachusetts, USA War is a plague, mass sickness of mankind, A Black Death born of fear-infected mind, Greed-sickened soul or hate-invaded heart. Such moral pathogens cause wars to start. […]

It’s Time to Take our Country Back from the War Companies!

March 28, 2022 Paul Shannon

by Paul Shannon Big Campaign contributions. 700 lobbyists. Militaristic think tanks. Government advisory boards. Hiring 1700 former Pentagon officials and stacking the government with their own people. These military contractors have numerous ways to determine Pentagon budgets, shape our foreign policy, create war fever, and […]

Vaccine Inequity is Apartheid and a Peace Issue

March 28, 2022 Catherine Henning

by Cate Henning With more than 3 billion people unvaccinated against COVID-19, the world is merely waiting for the next variant to mutate, spread, and kill. While 70% of people in wealthy countries are vaccinated, only 14% of people in low-income countries have received at […]

The Nuclear Question Resurfaces

March 28, 2022 Peter Kakos

The renowned Israeli poet, Yehuda Amichai, who survived many wars, observed that whenever he witnessed a home turned into a shell by rocket-fire, it had exposed the soul of those who called it home: their furniture strewn; family photos shattered, splayed across the […]

Serbian soccer fans ask for peace and note the history of US regime overthrows

Is the US Fighting for Democracy in Ukraine?

March 25, 2022 Jeff Klein

by Jeff Klein First published in the Dorchester People for Peace Update, March 25, 2022 As the Russian invasion of Ukraine enters its second month, the peace movement in the US and much of the world continues to demand a ceasefire and negotiations for the withdrawal […]

Every war ends with negotiations

March 23, 2022 Cole Harrison