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Hardening Ourselves Into Weapons
Something happened on Tuesday, as I began researching this column — I wound up having to give myself a COVID test. A good friend had just tested positive and, well, we had recently gotten together. I...
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Wars Are Closing Down the Window for Climate Action
The failure of the richest countries to meet their 2009 commitment to provide $100 billion in climate finance to impoverished and climate vulnerable countries has long sowed distrust and hindered...
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Good Times for the Military-Industrial Complex
The New York Times headline said it all: “Middle East War Adds to Surge in International Arms Sales.” The conflicts in Gaza, Ukraine, and beyond may be causing immense and unconscionable human...
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Latin America Rises Against Israel’s Genocide: Cutting Ties, Recalling...
Bolivia became the first Latin American country since October 7 to sever ties with Israel, citing war crimes in the Gaza Strip. Zoe Alexandra, the co-editor of Peoples Dispatch, discusses how support...
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Palestinians Sue Biden for Failure to Prevent Genocide, Seek Emergency Order
Contact: press@ccrjustice.org Leading Genocide and Holocaust Experts Submit Declarations in Support of Federal Case November 13, 2023, San Francisco – Today, Palestinians asked a federal court to...
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How the U.S. Has Darkened the Nuclear Cloud Over Humanity
Forty years ago, across a dozen pages of The Nation magazine, I was in a debate with the English historian E. P. Thompson about the U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms race, the relative culpability of both...
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Empire of War: Interview with Col. Lawrence Wilkerson
Retired Col. Lawrence Wilkerson (U.S. Army) was Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell. In dramatic testimony Col. Wilkerson exposes the corruption of the Military Industrial Complex and how...
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Gaza Is A Weapons Lab For The Arms Industry
Whether it’s drone technology or the infamous Pegasus spy software, Israel has long developed and refined repressive technologies used by governments around the world by testing them on Palestinians....
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In the UK, Workers Blockaded Four Arms Factories in Solidarity With Palestine
Over a thousand workers have simultaneously blocked four arms factories across the UK that provide components for arms used by Israel in its bombardment of Gaza. The workers, under the banner “Workers...
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Toronto Picketers at Pratt and Whitney
On Tuesday morning of December 12, more than two hundred workers and union members from across the Toronto area picketed the Mississauga manufacturing plant of defence contractor Pratt & Whitney...
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War, Propaganda, and The Arms Trade: An Interview with John Pilger
This video evidentiary episode of the Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal contains a unique interview conducted in May 2023 by the Tribunal with renowned journalist and documentarian John Pilger,...
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With 70 Percent of Gaza Homes Destroyed, Biden Approves $147M Israel Arms Sale
Israel’s U.S.-sponsored ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza has destroyed 70 percent of homes in the area in less than three months, according to a report released last week as the U.S. State Department...
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Budget Deal Ensures Bombs Will Keep Dropping While Fewer Human Needs Are Met
Every year, Democrats in Congress use an implicit threat to keep fiscal extremists in the Republican Party from gutting the safety net: cuts to the military budget. And every year, they back off that...
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The Military-Industrial Complex Is the Winner (Not You)
2023 was a year marked by devastating conflicts from Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine to Hamas’s horrific terror attacks on Israel, from that country’s indiscriminate mass slaughter in Gaza to a...
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After Years of Campaigning Against an Israeli Weapons Factory, It Was Direct...
In August 2014, Adie Mormech got a Facebook message he will never forget. It was from Wafaa, one of his former students in Gaza. “Adie do u remember Huda that was in your class in Afaq she was my...
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Netherlands Judges Halt Export to Israel of F-35 Parts
Dutch News reports that an appeals court in The Hague, Netherlands, has ruled that the Dutch government must cease sending spare parts for the F-35 fighter-jet to Israel. The spare parts are...
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“Emergent” AI Behavior and Human Destiny
Yes, it’s already time to be worried — very worried. As the wars in Ukraine and Gaza have shown, the earliest drone equivalents of “killer robots” have made it onto the battlefield and proved to be...
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Crisis in the Congo: How the West Fuels the Bloodshed in the DRC
At least 150,000 people have been displaced in the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) amid an escalation of fighting between the Congolese armed forces (FARDC) and the M23...
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U.S. Peace Activist Given Longest Prison Term in German Campaign to Oust U.S....
Susan Crane, of the Redwood City, California Catholic Worker, has been sentenced to 229 days in prison in Germany for daring to interfere with the U.S. nuclear weapons stationed at Germany’s Büchel Air...
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