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US/Canadian delegation to Nicaragua visits the Foreign Ministry, October 2021

Nicaragua through My Own Eyes

November 15, 2021 Yoav Elinevsky

by Yoav Elinevsky The country and people I saw in October 2021 were not what is presented about Nicaragua by the US government and the mainstream media. The Nicaraguans my delegation met with–from officials to workers–expressed pride in the country’s socio-economic achievements during the past […]

Armistice Day Parade, 2015, Boston - Veterans for Peace/ Smedley Butler Brigade photo

Armistice Day reflections

November 11, 2021 Jim Anderson

by Jim Anderson Reminiscing out loud heading towards yet another eleventh hour on the eleventh day of another eleventh month… big deal!? Yes yes Armistice Day is a big deal, and so is Veterans Day, which by the way are one and the same. Armistice […]

Making Another World Possible with the Nuclear Ban Treaty

November 8, 2021 Sofia Rose Wolman

As planetary dynamics interact with the COVID-19 pandemic, social, political, economic, internal, and relational dynamics have been laid bare and found wanting. We have collectively witnessed and experienced glaring inequities and precarities in the institutions and structures that govern, shape, and claim authority over our […]

The Pentagon and too many of our national leaders have yet to learn the lessons of Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq. (Photo: CodePink/CC)

Alternatives to the Pentagon’s China Nightmares

November 6, 2021 Joseph Gerson

by Joseph Gerson Originally published in Common Dreams I’m embarrassed for my friends when they make mistakes, not that I haven’t made a few myself. Recently when the Pentagon issued its terrorizing annual report on China warning that by 2030 China’s People’s Liberation Army could […]

Stand with the 6 Palestinian Human Rights NGOs

November 4, 2021 Cole Harrison

Build Back Better? Or Double Down on Disaster?

November 2, 2021 Nick Rabb

by Nick Rabb We have entered a new era of climate catastrophe. Whereas the major problems of the past were denial and delay, the current political terrain is one where it is no longer tenable to deny the crisis itself. Now, the emerging battle is […]

Eco-Fear: Mental Health in the Age of the Climate Crisis

November 2, 2021 Zoe Stevenson

by Zoe Stevenson Human beings today face climate challenges on an incomprehensibly enormous scale. Given the gravity of the situation we’re in, the guilt we carry about our part in creating it, and infuriating, long-standing government inaction, it’s no surprise that feelings of hopelessness and […]