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Tax Day: The America I wish my Taxes paid for

April 17, 2024 Patricia Hynes

by H. Patricia Hynes This article was originally published in Informed Comment. Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – In June 2023 Amanda Jones, an African American who had recently given birth to her second daughter Miranda, died from pregnancy-related causes. Her state, Georgia, ranks among […]

Biden Is Quietly Funding Nuclear Weapons Upgrades That Could Imperil the Planet

April 10, 2024 Jonathan King and Richard Krushnic

By Jonathan King & Richard Krushnic This article was originally published in Truthout. President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech failed to discuss a critical matter — the administration’s funding for the upgrading of all three legs of the nuclear weapons triad: Intercontinental Ballistic […]

MAPA Voices: Palestinian Poets’ Resolution by Carolyn Cushing

April 2, 2024 Carolyn Cushing

WHEREAS, the house / next door no longer / stands. It’s lying like an old carpet / on the floor of the earth, / trampled by missiles, fat slippers / flying off legless feet; and WHEREAS, every time we leave the house, / it’s suicide. […]

As Gaza’s Death Toll Rises, Biden’s Poll Numbers Fall

April 2, 2024 Kathie Malley-Morrison

by Kathleen Malley-Morrison The Peace Advocate is running a series of opinion pieces about the 2024 elections. We encourage our members and supporters to submit their analyses. We welcome different points of view. – The Editors The cruel and devastating genocide–and ecocide–imposed on Gaza by […]

Oppenheimer: Sins of Omission

April 2, 2024 Craig Simpson

by Craig Simpson Three days after the Oscar sweep of the Oppenheimer bio movie, Massachusetts Peace Action held a webinar with another side of the story. Oppenheimer the film is not an anti-nuclear weapons film. It is a film about a White male scientist who, […]

What is the Way Forward for the Russia-Ukraine War? Understanding our Differences and Potential Common Ground

March 26, 2024 Anicca Juraschka Sullivan

By Anicca Juraschka Sullivan “Negotiation is never a surrender,” Pope Francis stated in an interview on Saturday, March 9, calling on both Russia and Ukraine to “have the courage of raising the white flag” and to find a diplomatic solution to end the war in […]

The Biden Doctrine

March 26, 2024 Hoffmann the Organizer

by Hoffmann the Organizer In a recent lead editorial in the New York Times, Thomas Friedman boldly labels the governing philosophy of the era we’re living in: “The Biden Doctrine.” In that piece he limits the scope of this doctrine to the Middle East, hailing […]