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World Peace and Justice Conference Gathers Online During Pandemic

May 26, 2020 Joseph Gerson

Calls on Nations to: Abolish Nuclear Weapons; Resist and Reverse the Climate Crisis; Work for Social & Economic Justice by Joseph Gerson It’s not often that organizations as diverse as the Poor People’s Campaign, the International Trade Union Confederation, […]

Coronavirus and Other US Health Threats? Fund Public Health Not Foreign Wars

May 23, 2020 Jonathan King

by Heather Gray and Jonathan King Originally published in Counterpunch How is it that in the richest nation on Earth we don’t have enough masks, gowns, virus tests, and ventilators to serve our front-line healthcare providers in this coronavirus pandemic? Part of the answer is […]

President Donald J. Trump, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping . (Photo: Patrick Semansky,Liu Bin, AP)

China, COVID-19, and the 2020 Presidential Election

May 21, 2020 Cole Harrison

by Duncan McFarland First published in the “CCDS Mobilizer” In 1950 the anti-communist right led by Senator Joseph McCarthy attacked progressives in the government over “Who lost China?” In 2020, will a major issue in the presidential election campaign be “Who’s soft on China?” Regardless, […]

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 […]

Israel must not be allowed to annex West Bank land with impunity

May 21, 2020 Jeff Klein

by Jeff Klein The Israeli government is getting ready to formally annex large swaths of the occupied West Bank, apparently with the assent of the Trump administration. This action would culminate decades of settlement building, land seizures and dispossession of Palestinians in the territories where […]

Organizing for Peace in a Time of Pandemic and Uprising

May 20, 2020 Coleman Harrison

by Cole Harrison Our nation, and the world, has been plunged into a life and death struggle with a deadly virus, and then has been rocked by the biggest mass movement for justice since 1968. For 20 years, we’ve engaged in seemingly endless wars on […]

Protecting Public Health Requires COVID-19 Treatments to Be Patent Free

May 20, 2020 Jonathan King

Originally published in Truthout The U.S. biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries are furiously mobilizing to develop vaccines and drug therapies against COVID-19, as rapidly as possible. As of May 12, more than 1,400 clinical trials were underway to evaluate potential COVID-19 drugs and vaccines. Unfortunately, the fully […]