Month: November 2025

Correlation is Not Causation: Debunking Trump’s Tylenol Myth

November 19, 2025 Janira Skrbkova

by Jeanne Trubek Does Tylenol cause autism? Do vaccines? Do they really prevent diseases? Is melatonin bad for your heart? All of these questions have been in the news, whether last week or years ago. How do we make sense of them? The gold standard […]

Massachusetts Should Divest from Armageddon

November 19, 2025 Cole Harrison

by Cole Harrison Testimony Presented to the Joint Committee on Financial Services In support of An Act Promoting Responsible Investment (H.1264/ S.767) November 18, 2025 Thank you, co-chairs, for convening this hearing. I am Cole Harrison, administrative director of Massachusetts Peace Action. Peace Action was […]

oys salvaging a destroyed building in the Gaza Strip

Tlaib, Pressley, McGovern Introduce Genocide Resolution

November 14, 2025 Sam Levine

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (MI-12), alongside 20 other Members of Congress (including MA Reps. Pressley and McGovern), introduced H.Res.876 – Recognizing the Genocide of the Palestinian People in Gaza. This resolution officially recognizes that the Israeli government has committed the crime of […]

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November 13, 2025 Merri Ansara

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“U.S. Politics Stops at the Water’s Edge” is Tragically True

November 12, 2025 John Blumenstiel

by John Blumenstiel Disclaimer: All views expressed are those of the author. We have consistent bipartisan agreement for perpetual global war and it is now coming home to roost. Exhibit A: Ukraine. The roots of the conflict lie in long-term bipartisan animosity toward first the […]

The U.S. & China: Competition, Conflagration, Or Coexistence

November 10, 2025 Joseph Gerson

by Joseph Gerson (Originally published in Pressenza) Humanity finds itself in the inherent conflict between rising and declining powers that has often, as in World Wars I and II, culminated in catastrophic wars. The U.S.-Chinese trade war undermines both powers’ economies and simultaneously jeopardizes the […]

Anti War Banner at Protest About Palestine. Photo: Seyma D./ Pexels

Israel Tightens its Stranglehold on all of Palestine

November 3, 2025 Nancy Murray

by Nancy Murray The situation in Gaza is increasingly dismal under a “ceasefire” which hardly merits the name. More than two hundred Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since the truce began on Oct. 10, many for straying too close to the mostly unmarked […]