Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

Fifteen Reasons to Support The BDS Movement for Justice In Palestine

by Palestinian BDS National Movement Fifteen Reasons to support the BDS movement for Palestinian rights on its 15th anniversary: Because BDS is an ethical appeal from the largest coalition of Palestinians living under Israel’s military occupation, apartheid, and denial of refugees’ right. Because BDS works! Because I believe in a world with equal rights for all and not privileges for[…]

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10 Reasons Why Defunding the Police Should Lead to Defunding War

by Medea Benjamin & Zoltán Grossman, published on Consortium News, July 15, 2020 Since George Floyd was murdered, we have seen an increasing convergence of the “war at home” against black and brown people with the “wars abroad” that the U.S. has waged against people in other countries. Army and National Guard troops have been deployed in U.S. cities, as[…]

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Bipartisan Torpedo Strikes Troop Reduction In Afghanistan

by Manlio Dinucci, published on Global Research, July 10, 2020 Bankruptcy budget for the USA also from a political-military point of view: most of the territory is now controlled by the Taliban or disputed between them and the Governmental Forces supported by NATO. After lengthy negotiations, the Trump administration concluded an agreement with the Taliban last February against this background,[…]

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Truth And Justice: Green’s Trailblazing World Peace Platform

by Lauren Smith, published on Popular Resistance, July 14, 2020 Knowing that without truth there can be no justice and without justice, there can be no peace, the Green Party Action Committee (GPAX) endorsed a trailblazing world peace platform on July 6 that aggressively fights back against the militaristic corporate hijacking of the United States’ domestic and foreign policy, and its[…]

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Working-Class Demands in COVID Economy

Editorial, Workers World Editor, July 1, 2020 The International Monetary Fund issued a warning on June 24 that the global economy faces an even deeper downturn than it previously projected, greater than any since the 1930s Great Depression. While many economists warned earlier of a cyclical downturn in the world economy, the IMF blamed the current collapse on the coronavirus[…]

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The Return of the Anti-Antiwar Left

by James Carden, published on CounterPunch, July 1, 2020 In her recently published memoir, Circle in the Darkness, the author and journalist Diana Johnstone recalls that only “a few decades ago, “the Left” was considered the center of opposition to imperialism, and champion of the right of peoples to self-determination.” Johnstone is part of a distinguished line of American expatriate[…]

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‘Monumental Victory’: Court-Ordered Shutdown of Dakota Access Pipeline

by Jessica Corbett, published on Common Dreams, July 6, 2020 A U.S. district court on Monday delivered a major win to local Indigenous organizers and climate activists—and a significant blow to the fossil fuel industry and the Trump administration—by ordering the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) to be shut down and emptied of oil by Aug. 5 while federal regulators conduct an environmental review[…]

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Annexation is Going Forward

by Philip Weiss, published on Mondoweiss, July 6, 2020 The fact that Israel didn’t move forward on annexation on July 1 is no basis for hope. The country is determined to do so, annexation will inevitably mean uprooting Palestinians and moving them to shanty towns, and none of the vaunted opposition to Israeli plans, from Democratic Party progressives to Europe,[…]

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