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Activists Protest Raytheon’s Nuclear Weapons

August 30, 2022 Maryellen Kurkulos

(Cambridge) Massachusetts Peace Action and the Raytheon Anti-war Campaign have joined forces to launch a new campaign focusing on how Raytheon Technologies, the weapons manufacturer with an extensive presence across Massachusetts, is playing an integral role in escalating the threat of nuclear war. As part of […]

Raytheon Campaign Demonstrates at the Run to Home Base

August 18, 2022 Paul Shannon

By Paul Shannon On Saturday, July 30th at Boston’s Fenway Park, the Raytheon Antiwar Campaign demonstrated at the Run to Home Base to highlight Raytheon Technologies’ hypocritical sponsorship of the charity event. A project of the Red Sox Foundation in partnership with Massachusetts General Hospital, […]

MAPA Hosts Panel of Experts in “Update on JCPOA”

August 18, 2022 Tanmayi Rayavaram

by Tanmayi Rayavaram Signed in 2015 by Iran and the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (plus Germany), the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), nicknamed “The Iran Nuclear Deal,” allows world powers to monitor Iran’s nuclear activity in exchange for economic sanctions […]

Raytheon Makes Nuclear War More Likely

August 15, 2022 Richard Krushnic

by: Richard Krushnic, Kathleen Malley-Morrison Raytheon Technologies is even more horrifying than you thought. Its complicity in decades of the slaughter of innocent Yemeni men, women, and children by producing the guided bomb used more than any weapon by the Saudis in Yemen may be […]

MAPA and the Raytheon Antiwar Campaign Protest Saudi Arabia at the U.S. Open

July 13, 2022 Brian Garvey

by Brian Garvey So what on Earth do Saudi Arabia and the war in Yemen have to do with professional golf and the U.S. Open? It has everything to do with “sportswashing”, the practice of using sports to improve a tarnished reputation, which is exactly […]

Observations from Jeff Klein in Aleppo and Damascus

July 4, 2022 Jeff Klein

by Jeff Klein From Aleppo: Contrary to what many of you believe, Aleppo was not “destroyed” by the Syrian government and the Russians. A substantial portion of the city was occupied after 2012 by armed opposition forces, mostly from coming from outside. There was never […]

Thank You for Your Service

June 14, 2022 Webb Nichols

by Webb Nichols “Thank you for your service” You say to me You may wonder why I grimace You meant to make me feel better What to do with “Thank you for your service” No one who has been to war wants […]