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Massachusetts Peace Activists Lobby on Capitol Hill

April 16, 2025 Grace Cowell

by Grace Cowell Had I been told a few months ago that I would be celebrating my 20th birthday with the entire Massachusetts congressional delegation on Capitol Hill, I would not have believed it; however, I could not pass up the opportunity to travel to […]

Container ships in the Port of Los Angeles. Photo: Russ Allison Loar/ Flickr

China Tariffs – is this war by any other name?

April 16, 2025 Marcus Breen

by Marcus Breen There is an unfortunate tendency to believe that warfare involves violence, guns, bloodshed and nationalism generated by stupid leaders intent on domination. Thankfully, in non-violent warfare, only the last criterion applies to the tariff war imposed in the second week of March […]

In Mexico Industrial and Welfare Development Go Hand in Hand

April 9, 2025 Ellen Mass

by Ellen Mass This article is Part Four of a series on Mexico’s history and economic development. You can read Part One, Part Two, and Part Three. — While natural resources extraction increases by national and foreign companies, newly elected Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo maintains […]

The New Sentinel Intercontinental Missile: Dangerous, Costly and Unnecessary

April 8, 2025 Nancy Goldner

By Nancy Goldner, Jonathan King, and Richard Krushnic The world is awash in nuclear weapons with an astonishing overkill capacity. Just in the US, there are 400 land-based intercontinental missiles, hundreds of nuclear bombs mounted on B52 and B2 bombers, and 14 nuclear-powered and nuclear-armed submarines, […]

Hundreds of Thousands Take to the Streets: the Growing Social Rejection of War in the Middle East

April 8, 2025 Lila Li

by Lila Li On Saturday, March 22nd, Israel saw its largest protests since the war in Gaza began in October of 2023; over 100,000 Israelis marched in protest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s handling of the war, as well as his revived attempts to […]

Massachusetts Organizations and Activists Demand Sens. Warren and Markey Block Arms to Israel and Protect Student Protesters

April 2, 2025 Grace Cowell

by Grace Cowell March 18, 2025 resulted in one of the largest single-day death tolls of Israel’s vengeful quest against Palestinians over the past 17 months. Since then, Israel has resumed its ground invasion, killing over a thousand Palestinians, including hundreds of women, children, and […]

No to NATO, Yes to Peace!

April 2, 2025 Cole Harrison

Many people believe that NATO is a peace-loving, defensive alliance, but the opposite is true. During the past 30 years, NATO has fomented a vast arc of violence stretching from Libya to Afghanistan, leaving villages bombed, infrastructure destroyed, and countless dead. Originally formed as part […]