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End U.S. Military Aid to Colombia
Changing US policy from guns and military training to supporting the displaced and treating addiction at home
I Will Not Kill
Affirming the right of conscientious objection and opposing any future military draft.
Feb 3, 2012, 12:11pm
Leila Zand
Dear Editor,Weekafter week we hear election campaign speeches aggressively targeting Iran as a world-class enemy. The current government of Iran has been under attack and on the defensive since the day it was established....
Feb 3, 2012, 11:31am
Leila Zand
Fact: Iran does not possess a nuclear weapon.Fact: Iran has the right, according to international law, to develop nuclear energy for civilian use.Fact: Iran’s nuclear energy program is regularly monitored by the International Atomic Energy...
Feb 3, 2012, 11:03am
Leila Zand
A new wave of Cold War-style threats and covert actions have been directed against Iran, this time more serious than in the past. Seventy million people in Iran live each day in fear of war. The United States has sold almost $100 billion of high-...
Jan 30, 2012, 10:11pm
Leila Zand
“You Have a Choice! Israeli Anti-Militarists Speak” presents four native-born and immigrant Israeli citizens, aged 30 to 78, talking about their backgrounds, political views and activism in an interactive video that includes 132 short...
Jan 17, 2012, 1:24pm
David Hartsough
I highly commend to you this Democracy Now special, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in His Own Words. This is the radical Dr. King that the power structure wants us to forget about, but is very relevant to our situation today with terrible injustice and...
Jan 14, 2012, 2:26pm
Leila Zand
by Lynn GottliebJewish history overflows with tales of sorrow. Are we to endure yet another loss, but this time perpetrated by our own foolish hands? Those who think that bombing Iran serves a defensive purpose should reconsider and...
Jan 13, 2012, 6:36pm
John Lindsay-Poland
Jan 10, 2012, 10:56am
Susana Pimiento
The sixth Summit of the Americas which brings together the Presidents of the 34 countries of the continent will be held in Cartagena, Colombia, on April 14 and 15, 2012.Click here to read on the History of the Summits of the AmericasThe...
Jan 10, 2012, 10:34am
Susana Pimiento
The process of bringing together in a summit the hemispheric heads of state developed in the context of the Cold War. It was initially limited to some countries and controlled by the Organization of American States, OAS, under the...
Jan 9, 2012, 5:14pm
Mark Johnson
There has been a delightful clarity of visibility this past week in Cairo, the Pyramids of Giza often in view from the center of the city and the Nile’s green borders and the city from the ruins in Giza. A rare expierience in a city which...
