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Getting to where we are today

January 16, 2022 Doe West

by Rev Dr Doe West When I was just a young teen, Reverend Dr Martin Luther King helped shape my whole life by his “I have a dream” speech (August, 1963), when he said: “Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we […]

The W76-2 warhead, deployed during the Trump administration, will be launched aboard Trident II D5 missiles. Their guidance system was developed by Draper Labs of Cambridge, MA. (Ronald Gutridge/U.S. Navy)

The Nuclear Posture Review and the New P5 Statement

January 11, 2022 Steve Gallant

by Steve Gallant Possibly as early as this month, we will see the results of the Biden Administrations Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), which sets nuclear strategic policy for the US. Deliberations are behind closed doors. Bad signs so far include the removal of a presumed […]

A pro-Palestinian protest in midtown Manhattan amid the Israeli assault on Gaza, May 11, 2021. (Screen capture by the Times of Israel/Twitter)

The Politics of Israel and Palestine in the US: The State of Play in Congress and Beyond

January 7, 2022 Jeff Klein

by Jeff Klein The start of a new year is a good time to assess the possibilities of change in US policy toward Israel and Palestine. Almost 75 years since its foundation and the expulsion of 750,000 Arab residents in what Palestinians call the Nakba […]

Garrett Connelly of Greenfield and Nan Davies of Amherst held a sign in remembrance of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August on the Greenfield Commons, calling for a ban on nuclear weapons. Greenfield Recorder/ Ella Adams photo

High Time To Change The World’s Course

December 23, 2021 Peter Kakos

by Rev. Peter Kakos Originally published in the Daily Hampshire Gazette Among the most endearing aspects of the story of Christmas- and a favorite image on holiday-cards- is the appearance of an angel to shepherds on the lower plains of Bethlehem, “watching their sheep by […]

How the US Government Segregated America

December 18, 2021 Patricia Hynes

by H. Patricia Hynes Originally published in Common Dreams For many years, I worked in Boston public housing with teams of residents, community organizations, public housing staff and other professors on reducing and removing the many asthma triggers that caused the highest rates of asthma […]

Senate and Biden approve $650 million in Raytheon Missiles to Saudi Arabia

December 16, 2021 Brian Garvey

by Brian Garvey Joe Biden said he would stop selling weapons to Saudi Arabia. He didn’t. On December 7th the entire US Senate weighed in, exposing their positions on the US-Saudi alliance and the war in Yemen. Considering a privileged Joint Resolution of Disapproval (SJRes31) […]

Veteran suicide, PTSD, and moral injury? Blame Raytheon

December 14, 2021 Kathie Malley-Morrison

by Kathie Malley-Morrison [We] have to ask ourselves: Why are deadly weapons being sold to those who plan to inflict untold suffering on individuals and society? Sadly, the answer, as we all know, is simply for money: money that is drenched in blood, often innocent […]