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The president and Congress, said one leading anti-war campaigner, “must work together to actually end the decades long fighting, killing, dying, and spending that is on automatic pilot.” A US Marine during the 2003-2011 Iraq War, which destroyed the country and killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and thousands of U.S. troops. USMC photo by Corporal Brian M. Henner. “We need to make sure it’s done right” Longtime advocates for a more peaceful US foreign policy expressed cautious opt...

Myanmar: UN human rights expert issues report and urges decisive, unified action to put an end to brutality Format GENEVA (4 March 2021) – The UN’s human rights expert on Myanmar said in a report published today the military junta in the country is illegal, illegitimate and responsible for widespread and systematic human rights violations against nonviolent, peaceful protesters, and should be held accountable. In the report to the Human Rights Council, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situa...

Senators grill State Department nominee as proxy for wider Iran-deal debate John Hudson, The Washington Post March 3, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail WASHINGTON - The Senate Foreign Relations Committee grilled President Joe Bidens nominee for the No. 2 position at the State Department on Wednesday, homing in on her role as the chief negotiator for the 2015 Iran nuclear deal during the Obama administration. The nominee for deputy secretary of state, Wendy Sherman, faces a difficult confirmation proce...

President Joe Biden’s decision not to punish Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman despite the Friday release of a declassified intelligence report concluding that the Saudi leader approved the 2018 assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi outraged human rights and press freedom advocates within and beyond the United States.   One MBS is 7 feet tall, the other is 4 feet tall…EXPLAIN? The British papers (UK Daily Mail below) reported Kushner’s deal to target Khashoggi and others but this st...

Help Save Peoples World The economic crisis has hit Peoples World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. Mismatch: Biden bombs Syria while pushing progressive economic bill at home February 26, 2021 2:02 PM CDT By C.J. Atkins In this May 9, 2019 photo released by the U.S. Air Force, a B-52H Stratofortress bomber is seen through night vision coming in for a landing at Al Udeid Air B...

The Yemen Civil War Arms Bonanza The Yemen Civil War Arms Bonanza “Making billions from arms exports which fuel the conflict while providing a small fraction of that in aid to Yemen is both immoral and incoherent.”  So thundered Oxfam’s Yemen Country Director, Muhsin Siddiquey after consulting figures from the Stockholm Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) showing that members of the G20 have exported over $17 billion worth of arms to Saudi Arabia since the Kingdom entered the conflict in Ye...

February 23, 2021 Saudi soldiers inspect F15-SA fighter jets ordered from United States at the King Faisal Air Academy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on January 25, 2017. (Ramazan Turgut/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) In early February, Joe Biden went to the State Department to give the first foreign policy address of his presidency. His key theme was the need to restore America’s global leadership by adopting a policy of diplomacy first and repairing the damage to US alliances inflicted by Donald Tru...

What foreign policymakers can learn from racial justice advocates I’ve found it difficult to study international affairs while America is ripping at the seams.  Reading foreign policy think pieces and watching diplomacy webinars seem to inevitably end with my mind drifting to headlines that hit much closer to home. Like so many young people, the Trump years have left me more politically active, as I’ve come to understand the importance of my dissenting voice in a Zoom town hall an...

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Myanmar: UN expert sounds alarm ahead of expected protests GENEVA (16 February 2021) – The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Tom Andrews, today releases the following statement: "I fear that Wednesday has the potential for violence on a greater scale in Myanmar than we have seen since the illegal takeover of the government on February 1. A protest rally has been called for downtown Yangon today, and there may be protests in other cities and townships as we...