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Nuclear War Danger Breakout Reports

March 30, 2023 Catherine Henning

The 2023 “Reducing the Threat of Nuclear War” conference was held virtually on Saturday, January 21. This annual gathering is one of the major national conferences addressing this acute problem. The sub-theme this year was “The Social and Economic Costs of the Nuclear Weapons Buildup.” […]

Unending War, Undying Resistance: U.S. Militarization of Guatemala from the Internal Armed Conflict to the Present

March 29, 2023 Brian Garvey

This report was written by our friends at NISGUA, the Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala the entire report can be viewed here. The militarized repression that has taken place the last few years in places like El Estor, Guatemala, or Minneapolis, U.S, […]

Mel King, Peace Leader

March 29, 2023 Joseph Gerson

by Joseph Gerson and Cole Harrison Massachusetts Peace Action honors Mel King, leader of the peace and justice movement who died at his home on March 28. (Boston Globe obituary) We cannot win peace without the participation of large numbers of people from every walk […]

Australia agreed to purchase four Virginia-class submarines similar to the USS Indiana, pictured at Groton, Connecticut, September 25, 2020. (U.S. Navy Photo by John Narewski)

AUKUS Nuclear Submarines: Accelerating the Sleepwalking to War With China

March 23, 2023 Joseph Gerson

by Joseph Gerson The March 13 Biden-Albanese-Sunak summit in San Diego to demonstrate alliance solidarity and to sign the multi-billion AUKUS (Australia, United Kingdom, US) nuclear submarine deal accelerated the pace of the U.S. and China sleepwalking toward catastrophic war. Compounding the dangers that came […]

Freedom Monument in Baghdad, commissioned after the 1958 revolution by General Abd al-Karim Qasim and designed by architect Jawad Salim. Photo: Hammody.90/ Openverse

Reflections on the 2003 US Invasion of Iraq

March 18, 2023 Hayat Imam

by Hayat Imam At the 2004 White House Correspondents Ball, President George W. Bush mimed a massive search for Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), looking under tables and chairs and muttering to himself: “The WMD have got to be here somewhere…” The audience dutifully laughed, […]

Action Report: Activists Call on MA Reps to End the US war in Yemen

March 7, 2023 Brian Garvey

By Brian Garvey As part of a nationwide day of protests, backed by dozens of U.S. antiwar, youth, women’s, religious, Libertarian, progressive, and other groups, MAPA rallied in two locations on Wednesday March 1st, the Quincy office of Congressman Stephen Lynch and the Newton office […]

Raytheon’s Ukraine War Missile Defense Footprint

March 6, 2023 Richard Krushnic

by Richard Krushnic NATO’s main preoccupation these days is determining how well it can arm Ukraine without driving Russia into using tactical nuclear weapons—and how many red lines does it dare to cross while trying to crush Russia. The major red line that hasn’t been […]