Militarists, warmongers and arms dealers are riding a wave of momentum and they’re organizing to profit as much as possible. On Tuesday the Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI) hosted a conference titled "Putting Canadian Defence Procurement on a War...
Dear readers, to my great regret, I am once again duty bound to walk the streets bearing the sign "The End of the World is Nigh." I watched the news digest program Sixty Minutes yesterday on Russian state television’s smotrim.ru platform. Before...
Ukraine has been wracked by shocking destruction and deadly violence since Russia invaded the country in February. Estimates of the death toll range from a confirmed minimum of 27,577 people, including 6,374 civilians, to over 150,000. The slaughter can only get more...
Sixty years ago today (October 28) the U.S. and Russia stepped back from the brink of nuclear war by making a deal. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev would yield to President John F. Kennedy’s demand that Soviet missiles be removed from Cuba; Kennedy pledged not to...
There are several excellent sources of alternative media. In the course of my research, there are two or three websites that I make sure I read each day. But the one I read first every morning is Antiwar.com. Being a truly antiwar, nonviolent website requires great...
Antiwar.com is hands-down the best outlet in the English-speaking world right now at keeping track of the day-to-day happenings of militarism and imperialism in real time. Over the last couple of years or so I've begun citing it in my own writings probably more than...
As the war in Ukraine grinds on and the world pays and Ukrainians suffer and die, the US has an obligation to end it. If everyone is to return to the negotiating table, it is the US that must set the table and send out the invitations. Moral Obligation It is not just...
Mihail Kogălniceanu, Romania – "The U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division has been deployed to Europe for the first time in almost 80 years amid soaring tension between Russia and the American-led NATO military alliance. The light infantry unit, nicknamed...
