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Rally at Raytheon Cambridge office, October 2018

Tell Raytheon to Cease and Desist From the Development of Nuclear Weapons

July 29, 2020 Nicholas Smaldone

On August 6th, 2020, the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, peace activists will gather outside Raytheon BBN Technologies at 9 am to deliver a cease and desist letter to demand the company to stop developing nuclear weapons. Sign the cease and desist letter […]

IRAQ: Occupation, Governance, Protests

July 29, 2020 Valentine Moghadam

The 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq by U.S. and British forces was a momentous event for Iraq, the region, and the world. Since then, Iraq has experienced political instability, corruption, deteriorating public services, economic decline, Da’esh (Islamic State/ISIS) terrorism, and several protest waves (e.g., […]

Our Disaster: Why the United States bears responsibility for Yemen’s humanitarian crisis

June 1, 2020 Kathy Kelly

An entire generation of Yemeni children has suffered the traumas of war, many of them orphaned, maimed, malnourished, or displaced. The United Nations reports a death toll of 100,000 people in that nation’s ongoing war, with an additional 131,000 people dying from hunger, disease, and a lack of medical […]

Raytheon Wins Contract for New Missile that Makes Nuclear War More Likely

May 21, 2020 Richard Krushnic

by Richard Krushnic The enormously dangerous and expensive upgrading of the US nuclear triad is moving full steam ahead under the Trump Administration. The speed with which contracts are being awarded and work begun on new weapons systems will make it harder for any future […]

8 of 9 Massachusetts Reps. call for continued Iran arms embargo

May 6, 2020 Cole Harrison

We deplore the support of 8 of 9 members of Massachusetts’ House delegation on a very counterproductive letter supporting the Adminstration’s goal to extend the UN’s arms embargo on Iran. Read the letter here. Unfortunately, Reps. Jim McGovern, Katherine Clark, Joe Kennedy III, Richard Neal, Lori […]

Protesters challenge Raytheon support of JFK Library Space Celebration

Why Raytheon?

April 20, 2020 Paul Shannon

“Our work is still to insure peace, paradoxically through developing the world’s most powerful weapons systems…and these works are wonderful works indeed.” —General Electric chairman, Fred Borch, 1964 “Together, we’re advancing defense strategy, protecting people and infrastructure through proven solutions that make that world a […]

Afghanistan Papers Released: Where is the Outrage?

February 7, 2020 Eric Speer

by Eric Speer

Thousands of papers that the Washington Post sued the government for, then released last December, show that the official narrative behind the Afghanistan War, the longest in US history, has been a constant lie. Some 2,400 American soldiers have been killed and more than 20,000 wounded in the conflict. General Douglas Lute, Afghan War czar for Presidents Bush and Obama, is quoted as saying the US “didn’t have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking.” Yet, the Afghanistan Papers have not provoked nearly the same outrage as the 1971 Pentagon Papers that exposed US government lies about the Vietnam War. Where is the outrage?

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