The South African ambassador to the United States, Ebrahim Rasool, left Washington D.C. on March 21 after Secretary of State Marco Rubio took the extraordinary step of declaring him “persona…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies Woman at rally supporting peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in Berlin, Germany (Photo: Reuters) When European Union leaders met in Brussels…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies As we approach the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a monumental shift is taking place that might just lead…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies This year’s Doomsday Clock Statement landed like a damp squib in a Trump-swamped corporate news cycle on January 28th. The Bulletin of…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies President-elect Trump said on January 9th that he is planning a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the war in Ukraine. He said…
As President Biden greenlights another $8 billion in weapons to Israel in his last days in office and Secretary Blinken gives a parting New York Times interview in which he…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies With President Jimmy Carter’s passing and Donald Trump about to return to the White House, it’s a good time to recall a…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies On November 26th, Israel and Lebanon signed an agreement for a 60-day truce, during which Israel and Hezbollah are both supposed to…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies Of all Trump’s choices for his foreign policy team, Marco Rubio is the least controversial to the neoconservative foreign policy establishment in Washington, and…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies When Donald Trump takes office on January 20th, all his campaign promises to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours and…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies On October 24th, a U.S. presidential candidate told an interviewer, “Our day one agenda… also includes picking up the phone and telling Bibi Netanyahu…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies Each new week brings new calamities for people in the countries neighboring Israel, as its leaders try to bomb their way to…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies On October 1, Iran fired about 180 missiles at Israel in response to Israel’s recent assassinations of leaders of its Revolutionary Guard (IRGC),…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies On September 18th, the UN General Assembly is scheduled to debate and vote on a resolution calling on Israel to end “its…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies An Orwellian disconnect haunts the 2024 Democratic National Convention. In the isolation of the convention hall, shielded from the outside world behind…
Representative Cori Bush, a progressive black woman from St. Louis, MO who is a member of the “Squad” and has been a powerful voice in Congress for poor people, women’s…
On Wednesday, July 24, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to deliver his record-setting fourth address to a Joint Session of Congress. Here are 10 compelling reasons why he…
As NATO wrapped up its Summit and Biden held a crucial press conference, the media frenzy continued to focus on Biden’s age and cognitive abilities. Is he too old and…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies After NATO’s catastrophic, illegal invasions of Yugoslavia, Libya and Afghanistan, on July 9th NATO plans to invade Washington DC. The good news…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies On June 13, Hamas responded to persistent needling by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken over the U.S. proposal for a pause…
Senator Lindsay Graham was bursting with contempt for the International Criminal Court (ICC) when he grilled Secretary of State Blinken at a May 21 Congressional hearing. Wagging his finger, he…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies On May 8, 2024, as Israel escalated its brutal assault on Rafah, President Biden announced that he had “paused” a delivery of…
The non-violence training to join the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s ships to Gaza has been intense. As hundreds of us from 32 countries gathered in Istanbul, we were briefed about what…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies The Israeli online magazine +972 has published a detailed report on Israel’s use of an artificial intelligence (AI) system called “Lavender” to…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies President Biden began his State of the Union speech with an impassioned warning that failing to pass his $61 billion dollar weapons…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies As we mark two full years since Russia invaded Ukraine, Ukrainian government forces have withdrawn from Avdiivka, a town they first captured…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies On February 7, 2024, a U.S. drone strike assassinated an Iraqi militia leader, Abu Baqir al-Saadi, in the heart of Baghdad. This…
by Medea Benjamin and Steve Ellner An all-encompassing expression of goodwill in the form of a New Good Neighbor Policy will meet resistance from vested economic and military interests, as…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies In the topsy-turvy world of corporate media reporting on U.S. foreign policy, we have been led to believe that U.S. air strikes…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies On January 11th, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague is holding its first hearing in South Africa’s case against…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies On Friday, December 8, the UN Security Council met under Article 99 for only the fourth time in the UN’s history. Article…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies While Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has been frantically shuttling around the Middle East trying to stop the Israeli coflict in Gaza…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies We have both been reporting on and protesting against U.S. war crimes for many years, and against identical crimes committed by U.S.…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies On Friday, October 27, the nations of the world voted in the UN General Assembly, by a vote of 120 to 14,…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies President Gustavo Petro Urrego of Colombia addresses the UN General Assembly/Photo credit: UN As it did last year, the 2023 United Nations…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies Lost in a chaotic hall of mirrors of its own creation, the CIA has generally failed in its one and only legitimate…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies President Biden wrote in the New York Times in June 2022 that the United States was arming Ukraine to “fight on the…
by Medea Benjamin and Marcy Winograd At his speech during the NATO Summit in Lithuania, President Biden called the U.S. and Europe “anchors for global security” when in reality there…
by Medea Benjamin and Marcy Winograd President Biden may have crossed a new red line for the Democratic Party when he announced he would send banned cluster munitions to shore…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies “Plans love silence. There’ll be no announcement of the start.” Photo credit: Ukraine Defense Ministry As Ukraine prepared to launch its much…
During the weekend of June 10-11 in Vienna, Austria, over 300 people representing peace organizations from 32 countries came together for the first time since the Russian invasion of Ukraine…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies When Japan invited the leaders of Brazil, India and Indonesia to attend the G7 summit in Hiroshima, there were glimmers of hope…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies On May 16, 2023, The New York Times published a full-page advertisement signed by 15 U.S. national security experts about the war…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies In his 1987 book The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, historian Paul Kennedy reassured Americans that the decline the United…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies Leaked document predicts a “protracted war beyond 2023.” Image credit: Newsweek The U.S. corporate media’s first response to the leaking of secret…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies On April 4, 2023, Finland officially became the 31st member of the NATO military alliance. The 830-mile border between Finland and Russia…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God. - Matthew 5:9 In a brilliant Op-Ed published in…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies March 19th marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S. and British invasion of Iraq. This seminal event in the short history of…
by Medea Benjamin, Marcy Winograd and Wei Yu There’s something irrational about President Biden’s knee-jerk dismissal of China’s 12-point peace proposal titled “China’s Position on the Political Settlement of the…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies With the Ukraine war now reaching its one-year mark on February 24, the Russians have not achieved a military victory but neither…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies Fresh graves at a cemetery near Bakhmut, December 2022. - Photo credit: Reuters In a recent column, military analyst William Astore wrote,…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies The 2023 Doomsday Clock statement - Image credit: the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has just…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, known for his staunch support for Ukraine, recently revealed his greatest fear for this winter to a…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) meets in Lodz, Poland, on December 1, 2022. Photo credit: OSCE On December 27…
With wars raging in Ukraine, Yemen, Somalia and elsewhere, Roe v. Wade overturned and our resources being wasted on militarism instead of addressing the climate crisis, it can be hard…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies As the war in Ukraine has dragged on for nine months and a cold winter is setting in, people all over the…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies Senators Inhofe and Reed from the Senate Armed Services Committee Photo credit: AP If the powerful leaders of the Senate…
The global climate meeting called COP27 (the 27th Conference of Parties) will be held in the remote Egyptian desert resort of Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt from November 6-18. Given the extremely…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies Biden and Jayapal at a negotiating table in October 2021 - Photo credit: The White House Ukraine has been wracked by shocking…
by Medea Benjamin and Marcy Winograd In a dramatic break with the Biden administration on the eve of the midterm elections, 30 House Democrats sent a letter to President Biden…
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