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Washington, DC - 47 organizations called on President Biden to pursue goodwill gestures aimed at helping the people of Iran combat the COVID-19 pandemic and fostering a positive environment for negotiations aimed at restoring the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or nuclear deal with Iran.

Anti-war activists urge Congress to reallocate the roughly $6 billion currently earmarked for the Afghan military as much-needed humanitarian assistance.

The entrance to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters in Washington photographed on June 14, 2016. AP Photo/Paul Holston 50 nonprofit

Amid the lightning collapse of Afghanistan's U.S.-backed government and the all-but-certain return of Taliban rule, anti-war activists on Monday stressed - Brett Wilkins for Antiwar.com Original

POLITICO Senate Democrats defied Biden in their vote to boost Pentagon spending. And it wasnt even close Sen. Elizabeth Warren was the only member of the Armed Services Committee who voted against the $25 billion spending increase. Sen. Mark Kelly, a former naval aviator and astronaut who is up for reelection in 2022, said the budget buildup was needed to meet military requirements that didnt make the spending request. | AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File Link Copied The Senate Armed Services Committee...

The Narrow Borders of Militarism  Details -An end to war? It’s certainly necessary, but is it politically possible? The fate of House Resolution 476, introduced by Rep. Barbara Lee, will give us a clue how close “we,” by which I mean the leading military power on the planet, are to transcending our suicidal certainties. The wording of this bill concludes thus: Congress supports moves to reduce the priority given to war in our foreign policy and our current wa...

New cash for defense infrastructure under fire AUDIT OUTRAGE: New bipartisan legislation  [1]unveiled in the House on Thursday would slash the defense budget each year the Pentagon doesn’t pass an audit, owing to outrage in both parties that the Defense Department has failed to achieve a clean scrub of its books. The bill, sponsored by Lee and Republican Michael Burgess, would cut the budget of any Pentagon agency that doesn’t achieve a clean audit by half a percent for the first year aft...

"Spending $753 billion on weapons and war while our communities starve... is a national shame."

NIAC Action joined Jewish Voice for Peace, Win Without War, MoveOn and over 100 other organizations to support U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s resolution to block a planned 735 million-dollar sale of weapons to Israel. At an extraordinary time of heightened violence and disproportiona

Myanmar: UN expert welcomes “new blow” against junta’s finances, urges all nations step up with sanctions GENEVA (20 May 2021) – A UN human rights expert today welcomed the announcement of a new set of government sanctions against Myanmar’s junta by the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada, highlighting in particular the US designation of the junta itself, or the State Administrative Council (SAC) for sanctions. “It is imperative that the international community ram...