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Des Moines protesters call for negotiations to ease Russia-Ukraine tensions. Meanwhile, Iowa National Guard announces 250 soldiers headed to Poland.

QUEENS, NY—A ragtag group of activists, not representing any one organization, held a demonstration outside the Queens office ...

In a commentary for NCR, Catholic Worker Brian Terrell discusses the zealous champions of Dorothy Day's canonization cause who have, deliberat...

On Wednesday, October 20, I joined “Vrede Scheppen,” “Create Peace,” about 25 peace activists from the Netherlands, Germany and Austria at the airbase at Volkel, Netherlands, making a plea for an end to nuclear weapons. This base is home to two Dutch F16 fighter wings and the United States Air Force 703rd Munitions Support Squadron. […]

“Dig a hole, cover it with a couple of doors and then throw three feet of dirt on top. . . . It’s the dirt that does it. . . . . If there are enough shovels to go around, everybody’s going to make it.” This bit of cheery advice was offered by Thomas K. […]

By Patricia Burke Covert Action Magazine: Ban Killer Drones: International Grassroots Movement to Ban Weaponized Drones Launched (Part 1) May 10, 2021, Jack Gilroy, writing for Covert Action Magazine reported, An international grassroots movement to ban weaponized drones and military and police surveillance, entitled Ban Killer Drones, has been launched. Progressive readers will remember the years of struggle that […]

Biden’s Drone Wars, by Brian Terrell — Rise Up Times “When you drop a bomb from a drone… you are going to cause more damage than you are going to cause good,” and “The more weapons we give, the more bombs we drop, that just… fuels the conflict.” General Michael Flynn

Would it surprise you to know that women in Saudi Arabia need a male guardians permission to get married? Or that if they want to divorce, they have to justify it to a male judges satisfaction, even though husbands may divorce with neither justification nor judicial decree? Did you know that a Saudi womans testimony in court is worth only half that of a man’s? A womans child custody can be revoked if she doesnt dress what is deemed modestly enough to male superiors — or if she works f...

Antiwar.com Original On Thursday, April 15, the New York Times posted an article headed, "How the U.S. Plans to Fight From Afar After Troops Exit Afghanistan," just in case anyone misunderstood the previous day’s headline, "Biden, Setting Afghanistan Withdrawal, Says ‘It Is Time to End the Forever War’" as indicating the US war in Afghanistan might actually come to an end on September 11, 2021, almost 20 years after it started. We saw this bait and switch tactic before...

Biden’s Drone Wars Activists Brian Terrell and Ghulam Hussein Ahmadi at the Border Free Center in Kabul, Afghanistan. Graffiti by Kabul Knight (Image by Hakim) By Brian Terrell On Thursday, April 15, the  New York Times posted an article headed, “How the U.S. Plans to Fight From Afar After Troops Exit Afghanistan,” just in case anyone misunderstood the previous day’s headline, “Biden, Setting ...