Can US Threats Prevent a Wider War in the Middle East?
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…
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Israeli War Crimes and Propaganda Follow US Blueprint
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.…
US Stands Isolated in Backing Gaza Massacre
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,…
Global Leaders Plead for Peace in Ukraine at UN
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…
Is CIA Director Bill Burns a Biden Yes-Man, a Putin Apologist or a Peacemaker?
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…
U.S.-Backed Roll of the Dice Leaves Ukraine in Worse Crisis
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…
NATO Is a Warfare Alliance, Not a Force for Global Peace or Stability
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…
Stop Biden from Sending Cluster Bombs to Ukraine
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…
The Silent Slaughter of the Flower of Ukraine’s Youth
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…
Vienna’s International Summit for Peace in Ukraine Issues a Global Call for Action
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…
When Will US Join Global Call to End Ukraine War?
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…
A Timely Call for Peace in Ukraine by U.S. National Security Experts
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…
Can the U.S. Adjust Sensibly to a Multipolar World?
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…
Leaks Reveal Reality Behind U.S. Propaganda in Ukraine
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…
Finland’s NATO Move Leaves Others to Carry On the “Helsinki Spirit”
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…
The Tragic U.S. Choice to Prioritize War Over Peacemaking
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…
The Not-So-Winding Road from Iraq to Ukraine
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…
Why Biden Snubbed China’s Ukraine Peace Plan
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…
Who’s winning and losing the economic war over Ukraine?
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…
How Spin and Lies Fuel a Bloody War of Attrition in Ukraine
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,…
What Can the United States Bring to the Peace Table for Ukraine?
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…
Can NATO and the Pentagon Find a Diplomatic Off-Ramp From the Ukraine War?
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…
The Ukraine Crisis Is a Classic “Security Dilemma”
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…
Ten surprisingly good things that happened in 2022
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…
Eight Reasons Why Now is a Good Time for a Ukraine Ceasefire and Peace Talks
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…
Congressional Amendment Opens Floodgates for War Profiteers and a Major Ground War on Russia
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…
What to Expect from COP27 in Egypt’s Police State: An Interview With Sharif Abdel Kouddous
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…
The growing chorus for peace in Ukraine
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…
Thirty Progressive Democrats Break Rank, Calling for a Ceasefire in Ukraine
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…
Biden’s Broken Promise to Avoid War with Russia May Kill Us All
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies On March 11, 2022, President Biden reassured the American public and the world that the United States and its NATO allies were…
“End War in Ukraine” Say 66 Nations at UN General Assembly
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies Photo credit: UN We have spent the past week reading and listening to speeches by world leaders at the UN General Assembly in…
Peace Talks Essential as War Rages on in Ukraine
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies Six months ago, Russia invaded Ukraine. The United States, NATO and the European Union (EU) wrapped themselves in the Ukrainian flag, shelled out…
NATO and a War Foretold
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies As NATO holds its Summit in Madrid on June 28-30, the war in Ukraine is taking center stage. During a pre-Summit June…
For Biden’s Summit of the Americas, Obama’s Handshake With Raúl Castro Shows the Way
On May 16, the Biden administration announced new measures to “increase support for the Cuban people.” They included easing travel restrictions and helping Cuban-Americans support and connect with their families.…
From Mosul to Raqqa to Mariupol, Killing Civilians is a Crime
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies Americans have been shocked by the death and destruction of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, filling our screens with bombed buildings and dead…
How the U.S. Has Empowered and Armed Neo-Nazis in Ukraine
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies Russian President Putin has claimed that he ordered the invasion of Ukraine to “denazify” its government, while Western officials, such as former U.S.…
How the U.S. Started a Cold War with Russia and Left Ukraine to Fight It
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies Photo Credit: CODEPINK The defenders of Ukraine are bravely resisting Russian aggression, shaming the rest of the world and the UN Security Council…
What Is Going to Happen in Ukraine?
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies Every day brings new noise and fury in the crisis over Ukraine, mostly from Washington. But what is really likely to happen? There…
Memo to Congress: Diplomacy for Ukraine Is Spelled M-i-n-s-k
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies While the Biden administration is sending more troops and weapons to inflame the Ukraine conflict and Congress is pouring more fuel on…
America Is Reaping What It Sowed in Ukraine
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies So what are Americans to believe about the rising tensions over Ukraine? The United States and Russia both claim their escalations are…
After a Year of Biden, Why Do We Still Have Trump’s Foreign Policy?
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies President Biden and the Democrats were highly critical of President Trump's foreign policy, so it was reasonable to expect that Biden would quickly remedy its worst…
Hey, Hey, USA! How Many Bombs Did You Drop Today?
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies August 2020 U.S. drone strike in Kabul killed 10 Afghan civilians. Credit: Getty Images The Pentagon has finally published its first Airpower…
Yes, There Were 10 Good Things About 2021
Photo credit: peace-justice.org This year, 2021, began with a huge sense of relief as Trump left office. We hoped to emerge from the ravages of COVID, pass a hefty Build…
Ten Contradictions That Plague Biden’s Democracy Summit
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies President Biden’s virtual Summit for Democracy on December 9-10 is part of a campaign to restore the United States’ standing in the…
How Congress Loots the Treasury for the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex
by Medea Benjamin & Nicolas J. S. Davies Despite a disagreement over some amendments in the Senate, the United States Congress is poised to pass a $778 billion military budget…
The High Stakes of the U.S.-Russia Confrontation Over Ukraine
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies The border between post-coup Ukraine and the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, based on the Minsk Agreements. Map credit: Wikipedia A report…
Cubans More Excited About School Reopening Than Regime Change
"If you build it, they will come," said Kevin Costner in the Field of Dreams. In Cuba, they didn't come. Dissidents on the island, with their U.S. backers, had been working…
COP 26: Can a Singing, Dancing Rebellion Save the World?
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies COP Twenty-six! That is how many times the UN has assembled world leaders to try to tackle the climate crisis. But the…
Our Future vs. Neoliberalism
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies In country after country around the world, people are rising up to challenge entrenched, failing neoliberal political and economic systems, with mixed…
Despite Taliban Rule, Feminists Must Not Abandon Afghan Women
The situation is complex and so feminists should not take the simplistic view that a policy of non-cooperation with the Taliban is the way to support women. Since the Taliban…
Why Does Congress Fight Over Childcare But Not F-35s?
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies President Biden and the Democratic Congress are facing a crisis as the popular domestic agenda they ran on in the 2020 election…
U.S. Militarism’s Toxic Impact on Climate Policy
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies President Biden addressed the UN General Assembly on September 21 with a warning that the climate crisis is fast approaching a “point…
How Can America Wake Up From Its Post-9/11 Nightmare?
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies Looking back on it now, the 1990s were an age of innocence for America. The Cold War was over and our leaders…
Afghanistan Crisis Must End America’s Empire of War, Corruption and Poverty
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies Americans have been shocked by videos of thousands of Afghans risking their lives to flee the Taliban’s return to power in their…
Will Americans Who Were Right on Afghanistan Still Be Ignored?
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies America’s corporate media are ringing with recriminations over the humiliating U.S. military defeat in Afghanistan. But very little of the criticism goes…
Biden Must Call Off the B-52s Bombing Afghan Cities
by Medea Benjamin & Nicolas J. S. Davies Nine provincial capitals in Afghanistan have fallen to the Taliban in six days - Zaranj, Sheberghan, Sar-e-Pul, Kunduz, Taloqan, Aybak, Farah, Pul-e-Khumri…
America’s Afghan War Is Over, So What About Iraq – and Iran?
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies At Bagram air-base, Afghan scrap merchants are already picking through the graveyard of U.S. military equipment that was until recently the headquarters…
Carlos Lazo: The Cuban American Leading the Charge to Transform U.S.-Cuba Policy
Carlos Lazo and a small band of Cuban Americans are on a 1,300-mile pilgrimage from Miami to Washington, D.C., to end the U.S. blockade of Cuba. Despite the blistering summer…
How Biden Helped Hardliner Raisi Win Iran Election
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies It was common knowledge that a U.S. failure to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal (known as the JCPOA) before Iran’s June presidential…
Why Democracies in G7 & NATO Should Reject U.S. Leadership
Written by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies The world has been treated to successive spectacles of national leaders gathering at a G7 Summit in Cornwall and a NATO…
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