Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

How the U.S. Started a Cold War with Russia and Left Ukraine to Fight It

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, March 28, 2022 The defenders of Ukraine are bravely resisting Russian aggression, shaming the rest of the world and the UN Security Council for its failure to protect them. It is an encouraging sign that the Russians and Ukrainians are holding talks in Belarus that may lead to a ceasefire. All efforts[…]

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Activist Explains Why Anti-war Movement Wants U.S. out of Ukraine

by Staff, published on Fightback News, February 27, 2022 Minneapolis, MN – Fight Back! News interviewed Meredith Aby-Keirstead, a founding member of the MN Anti-War Committee, on February 27 for her anti-war perspective on the crisis in the Ukraine and the proxy war developing between the U.S./NATO and Russia. Fight Back!: Why should Americans join with the anti-war movement right[…]

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Western Democracies Have Mutated Into Propagandists for War and Conflict

by John Pilger, published by Globetrotter, February 18, 2022 Marshall McLuhan’s prophecy that “the successor to politics will be propaganda” has happened. Raw propaganda is now the rule in Western democracies, especially the U.S. and Britain. On matters of war and peace, ministerial deceit is reported as news. Inconvenient facts are censored, demons are nurtured. The model is corporate spin,[…]

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Minneapolis protest calls for U.S. de-escalation in Ukraine

by Wyatt Miller, published on Fightback News, February 26, 2022 Minneapolis, MN – On February 24, around 30 people demonstrated outside U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar’s office in downtown Minneapolis with signs and banners calling for no war with Russia and an end to U.S. intervention in Ukraine. Held less than 24 hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian troops[…]

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War Propaganda About Ukraine Becoming More Militaristic, Authoritarian, and Reckless

by Glenn Greenwald, published on Glen’s Substack, February 27, 2022 In the weeks leading up to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, those warning of the possible dangers of U.S. involvement were assured that such concerns were baseless. The prevailing line insisted that nobody in Washington is even considering let alone advocating that the U.S. become militarily involved in a conflict[…]

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Veterans For Peace Encourages Diplomacy Not War

Statement from Veterans for Peace, February 24, 2022 Veterans For Peace condemns the invasion of Ukraine.  Our mission remains the same.  We are committed to a sustainable and just peace.  As veterans we know increased violence only fuels extremism.  We have watched, and in some cases been firsthand witnesses to how the people of Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, etc.[…]

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No to Plunging the Peoples of Europe into a U.S./NATO-Provoked War!

Crisis in Ukraine No to Plunging the Peoples of Europe into a U.S./NATO-Provoked War! All Out to Rally Canadians Against Warmongering, Lies and Disinformation -Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) – Amidst all the warmongering, lies and disinformation over what Russia is or is not doing in Ukraine to defend its strategic interests, the obvious question arises as to who is[…]

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World Peace Council Condemns the Growing Imperialist Aggressiveness and Escalation of Tensions Around Ukraine

Statement published  by US Peace Council The World Peace Council (WPC) expresses its deepest concerns about the escalating tensions in Eastern Europe and particularly around the Ukraine, caused primarily by the growing aggressive expansion of NATO towards Eastern Europe, its massive deployment of troops from the Baltic Sea to Bulgaria, and creating a belt aiming at the encirclement of the Russian[…]

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U.S. War on Russia: a Stampede Off a Cliff

by Sara Flounders, published on  International Action Center, February 24, 2022 Great metaphor here.   The EU had stopped listening to U.S. advice which was clearly not in their  interest.    Now they are too frightened to ignore big brother’s demands. [JB] Bulletin: As of Feb. 22, Russia has recognized the two peoples’ republics in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, the[…]

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