Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

The Urgency of Recognizing the Ansar Allah Government in Yemen

By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, published on World BEYOND War, September 22, 2026 The Trump administration came perilously close to launching another bombing campaign against Yemen this weekend. According to a September 20 New York Times report, US commanders had approved their targets, American troops were loading bombs onto warplanes, and an attack on Yemen’s Ansar Allah[…]

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A People(s) Centered Human Rights Critique of “An Open Letter to Iran’s Political Prisoners”

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, August 256, 2026 A People(s)-Centered Human Rights framework rejects the liberal abstraction that makes a false symmetry between Iranian authoritarianism and U.S. imperialism, which obscures the fact that one is a sovereign state under siege and the other is the world’s most powerful empire waging war. Several commentators have addressed the problem[…]

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More U.S. Troops Are Refusing to Fight—and Reviving a Tradition of Patriotic Dissent

by Joshua Scheer, published on Scheer Post, July 4, 2026 As Americans mark the Fourth of July with official celebrations of military power and national triumph, another vision of patriotism is emerging from those who have worn the uniform themselves. In this interview, Army veteran and Center on Conscience & War Executive Director Mike Prysner discusses the growing number of[…]

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U.S. Military Bases Around the World Are Facing Growing Protest From an Emboldened Antiwar Movement

by Jeremy Kuzmarov, published on Covert Action Magazine, June 21, 2026 Protests receive scant coverage in the U.S. media In early April, an unidentified Irish man climbed onto the roof of a U.S. C-130 Hercules military transport vehicle parked at Shannon Airport in County Claire, Ireland, and sabotaged its wing and fuselage using a hatchet, causing $75 million in damage.[…]

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Díaz-Canel: “Trump Seeks to Suffocate Cuba So That There Will Be a Social Explosion and He Will Have a Pretext to Intervene”

from elDiario, published on Socialist Action, June 5, 2026 Translation by Walter Lippman Miguel Díaz-Canel [Photo above] is the president of Cuba. He leads a country of just under ten million inhabitants, located 90 miles from Florida. Since the 1959 Revolution, Cuba has been a target of every US administration. But now the situation is particularly extreme and tense, to[…]

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Attack on Iran Sparks Dissent in U.S. Armed Forces – What Next?

by John Catalinotto, published on Workers World, March 13, 2026 Editor’s Note: This is a little out of date, but it is increasingly true.    The battle that started with the Feb. 28 U.S.-Israeli death machine’s unprovoked assault on Iran has in its first 11 days expanded to a regional conflagration and is moving at undetermined speed toward a world[…]

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Iran’s Drones, the Strait of Hormuz and the New World Order

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, April 10, 2026 On April 8, the people of Iran celebrated. And as Iran’s government announced, their military will keep its finger on the trigger. This implies not a moment of trust of U.S. imperialism, which violates every agreement it makes. A ceasefire based on Iran’s 10 points and a refusal to concede[…]

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A Weak Left Stands By as Russia Stands Up for Cuban Sovereignty

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, April 1, 2026 Russia finally makes good on promises to help Cuba, but its level of commitment is unclear. The left are clearly immobilized, even as Iran demonstrates how to fight back. Donald Trump recently bragged that he was “on a roll” after kidnapping President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela and beginning the[…]

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Will the US-Israeli War on Iran Open the Road to Palestinian Freedom?

by Ramzy Baroud, published on Antiwar.com, March 29, 2026 Editor’s Note:  Many people who were new to antiwar activism were very upset when the US/Israeli war on Iran appeared to ‘upstage’ their efforts to end the Gaza Genocide.   Ramzy Baroud provides a very clear explanation of why this is a necessary perspective if one wishes to see Palestine rise from[…]

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Tactical Retreats: Why Venezuela’s Revolution Still Stands

…. Once again on the right of poor and oppressed nations to self-determination and sovereignty by Manolo De Los Santes, published on People’s Dispatch, March 3, 2026 The early morning hours of January 3, 2026, marked an inflection point in Venezuela and Latin America’s centuries-long struggle for self-determination and independence. Operation Absolute Resolve, ordered by the Trump administration, constituted the[…]

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