10,000 Americans Thank Italy for Convicting CIA Agents
by David Swanson
on October 16, 2012
By David Swanson
Printed in a number of Italian newspapers.
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Minuteman III Missiles: Dangerous, Deadly and Time to Decommission
by John Amidon
on October 16, 2012
By John Amidon
The US nuclear arsenal includes 450 land-based Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) armed with thermonuclear warheads. These ICBMs are deployed in hardened silos in North Dakota, Wyoming and Montana. They are easily detected and targeted.
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25,000 Activists Demand Commitment to Protect Social Security and Medicare
by RootsAction
on October 16, 2012
Since August, 25,000 Americans have visited RootsAction.org and sent over 97,000 emails to President Obama and Congress with this message:
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Sanders: Don’t Use Social Security COLA to Cut Benefits
by Senator Bernie Sanders
on October 16, 2012
By Senator Bernie Sanders
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I Was Minutes Away From Ordering a Drone Strike on an 'Insurgent' ... Until I Realized It Was Just a Child at Play
by James Jeffrey
on September 30, 2012
Comment Is Free / By James Jeffrey
via Alternet
I find myself caught between the need to follow the drone debate and the need to avoid unpleasant memories it stirs. I used drones [3] – unmanned aerial vehicles – during the nadir of my military career that was an operational tour in Afghanistan [4]. I remember cuing up a US Predator strike before deciding the computer screen wasn't depicting aTaliban [5] insurgent burying an improvised explosive device in the road; rather, a child playing in the dirt.
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South Korea's Peace Villagers Can't Stop the Budding US Defense Project, but They've Managed to Slow It Down
by Joe Tenyen
on September 30, 2012
By Joe Tenyen, Truthout
On an island designated last year as one of the seven natural wonders of the world, bulldozers are carving out a deep-water naval port that will house 20 US warships. All that stands between the fragile coast and the massive destructiion are half a dozen determined bodies.
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Nuclear Roulette
by David Swanson
on September 17, 2012
As the Coalition Against Nukes prepares for a series of events in Washington, D.C., September 20-22, including a Capitol Hill rally, a Congressional briefing, a fundraiser at Busboys and Poets, a ceremony at the Museum of the American Indian, a rally at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), a film screening, and a strategy session, the time seems ideal to take in the wisdom of Gar Smith's new book, Nuclear Roulette: The Truth About the Most Dangerous Energy Source on Earth.
It's Us or the Nukes
by David Swanson
on September 17, 2012
President Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor was about to wake him up in the middle of the night to inform the President that 220 Soviet nuclear missiles were headed our way, when he learned that someone had stuck a game tape into the computer by mistake.
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Bill Provides Another $100 Billion for War, Kucinich Calls on Congress to Stop Funding
by Dennis Kucinich
on September 13, 2012
Washington D.C. (September 13, 2012) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today spoke out against bloated Pentagon spending and hundreds of billions of U.S. taxpayer money wasted on unnecessary wars. Kucinich vowed to vote against the “Continuing Resolution” which will fund the federal government for another six months.
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The Environmental Antiwar Movement
by David Swanson
on September 12, 2012
Events in South Korea are putting U.S. and international environmental groups into coalition with antiwar groups, and in rare opposition to one of the most environmentally destructive forces on earth: the military industrial complex.
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