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Revealing the Carnage of Gaza to Suburban America

November 20, 2024 Randy Wurster

By Randy Wurster For 13 months, Palestinians have broadcast their most tragic and vulnerable moments. Every day, there is a new wave of heartrending videos of Palestinians suffering unimaginably violent deaths while their loved ones experience devastating grief. Yet, rarely does the butchery in Gaza […]

Challenging the Military’s Recruitment in our Schools

November 21, 2023 Nancy Goldner

by Nancy Goldner and Rosemary Kean When the No Child Left Behind Act was passed in 2002, US military recruiters gained access to American high schools on a basis equivalent to recruiters for colleges and civilian employers. The Act also mandated that the contact information […]

Leading Biomedical Scientists Say Research Suffers While Pentagon Budget Grows

September 27, 2023 Jonathan King

by Jonathan King When the Covid 19 pandemic engulfed our country, many couldn’t understand how the richest, most scientifically advanced nation in the world could be so unprepared. Our Fund Healthcare Not Warfare working group understood that, in addition to the lack of a coherent […]

The Multiplying Horror of Cluster Munitions Use in Ukraine

August 21, 2023 Richard Krushnic

by Richard Krushnic and Jacqueline King In a dismaying intensification of the Ukraine war, President Biden announced in early July that the US would begin sending cluster munitions to Ukraine. The decision met with widespread domestic and international opprobrium, including statements against cluster munitions by […]

When the Military Owns the Ocean

August 18, 2023 Leo Middleton

By Leo Middleton When the submersible vessel known as the Titan, owned by the Oceangate company, imploded with five people on board on its way to exploring the wreckage of the Titanic off the coast of Newfoundland in June, the deadly accident was met with […]

Three Days Inside the Doomsday Machine: The 2023 Deterrence Summit

April 14, 2023 Vicki Elson

by Vicki Elson This article was originally published as a three-part series on Pressenza. What does the nuclear weapons industry talk about when they’re together? I spent three days with 530 government officials, politicians, and corporate contractors in a hotel basement to find out. The […]

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Here Come the Militarized Robots (But There Go Our Civil Liberties)

April 14, 2023 Tom Valovic

By Tom Valovic Many decades ago, when science fiction was still whimsical and fun rather than dark and dystopian, we saw robots appear in popular culture that were benign and friendly. Some may recall Robbie the Robot from the movie “Forbidden Planet” and, of course, […]