With a new Cold War heating up between the U.S. and Russia and China, Witness for Peace Southwest, Addicted to War and CodePink organized a Truth Commission on the original Cold War on March [...]
By Subrata Ghoshroy, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. -
The program to develop a missile defense system to protect the United States mainland has existed in one form or another for nearly six decades. Though it was controversial from the beginning and [...]
On this week's Economic Update, Prof. Wolff discusses the following: Denmark's new taxes on banks and rich people to help workers doing dangerous jobs; West Virginia AG sues Walmart and CVS for [...]
The uber-irony about the deadly coronavirus is that, as it claims lives, endangers millions and interrupts the social normal, threatening unprecedented global chaos, it is also quietly informing [...]
Just before the Korean War started in 1950, key foreign policy advisers to President Truman threw their support behind recommendations made in a classified document, National Security Council [...]
By Oliver Stone and Dan Kovalik, Information Clearinghouse. -
Former president Jimmy Carter recently made a profound and damning statement — the United States is the “most warlike nation in the history of the world.” Carter contrasted the United States with [...]
Aside from the human toll, how much does endless war - and a growing number of US bases around the world - cost each year?
This is an attempt to do a reasonable calculation of the cost to [...]
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance -
The United States has a long history of dominating international economic institutions and has been able to use that power in the past to control other governments and enrich its industries. At [...]
August 16 - As resistance to the November military parade, ordered by President Trump, was gaining momentum, the Pentagon announced tonight that the parade is being "postponed" into 2019, which [...]
A network of 187 organizations has come together to urge a mass protest against the military parade in November called for by President Trump. The military parade is widely opposed. Army Times [...]
On April 11, the mayor of Burlington, Vermont, announced that he was betraying a 55% majority of Burlington voters and a 75% majority of his city council that had opposed basing the F-35 Joint [...]
Excessive military spending in the U.S. is undermining the well-being of our people and starving our non-military sectors. The cost of U.S. domestic and foreign militarism in 2016 totaled $741.3 [...]
By Bruce Gagnon for Space for Peace. Already over many years General Dynamics has received more than $197 million in state and local tax breaks for BIW. In 2013 BIW asked for another $6 million [...]
