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Why No One Remembers the Peacemakers: Celebrating War Over and Over and Peace Once | Adam Hochschild
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A new activist toolkit arrives in beautiful fashion | Waging Nonviolence
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The World After Me: Eternal ‘Wartime’ in America | Truthdig
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Ralph Nader and Omar Barghouti To be Given Gandhi Peace Award
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Skipping Over the Greatest Moral Dilemma of the War Years
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Public Order Doesn’t Require Armed and Aggressive Police
Environment
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Recalculating the Climate Math | New Republic
The numbers on global warming are even scarier than we thought.
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How Nuclear Power Causes Global Warming | The Progressive
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As ‘environment powerhouse,’ Brazil to join Paris climate accord, President tells UN Assembly | UN News Centre
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Why Clean Energy Is Center Stage on International Day of Peace | Jim Marston, Huffington Post
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Wall Street’s Destruction Of Sacred Sioux Indian Burial Grounds | Countercurrents
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Climate change and other human activities are affecting species migration | John Abraham, The Guardian
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Breakthrough as US and China agree to ratify Paris climate deal | The Guardian
Columnists
Syria – Calling for an End to the Interventions is Not Nearly Enough
By Joseph Daher The ceasefire in Syria concluded on September 9, 2016 between the US ...
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Colonial Settlers | Mazin Qumsiyeh
The explosion that destroyed an Israeli satellite two days before it was to launch is worrying Israeli elite apartheid rulers. The wind, as the Arabic proverb goes, does not always go the way the ships want to go. …. Meanwhile, we the people must change our approach and stop playing the game using the rules placed on us by the bankers.
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Hillary Clinton, the Podesta Group and the Saudi Regime: A Fatal Ménage à Trois | Medea Benjamin
If Hillary Clinton wants to be a meaningful symbol for human rights and women’s empowerment, her campaign must live up to the values she claims to represent, and this would be one step in the right direction.
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Dangerous Seas: China and The U.S. | Conn Hallinan
The U.S. can resist that inevitability, but only by relying on its overwhelming military power and constructing an alliance system reminiscent of the Cold War. That should give pause to all concerned.
Read More »Notable Peace News
Saudi Arms Deal Backed By US Senators Who Got Cash From Weapons Contractor That Will Benefit | ibtimes
General Dynamics spent millions on campaign donations and lobbying in the lead-up to a Senate vote for the arms deal.
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Yale to Face Protests for Whitewashing Paul Kagame’s Human Rights Record | Real News Network
Journalist and Yale alum Anjan Sundaram says Yale is ignoring the Rawandan president's atrocious record in both Rwanda and Congo.
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Vote this Week to Block Arms Deal to Saudi Arabia, CodePink speaks out | United for Peace and Justice, DemocracyNow!
This week, the week of Sept. 19, the Senate will vote on the Murphy-Paul-Franken-Lee bill to block a $1.15 billion arms deal to Saudi Arabia.
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Five Stories to Follow During UN Week | UN Dispatch
It’s that time of year! World leaders are gathering at the United Nations this week for the start of the 71st General Assembly. These five issues will drive diplomacy around Turtle Bay and beyond.
Read More »Disarmament
Saudi Arms Deal Backed By US Senators Who Got Cash From Weapons Contractor That Will Benefit | ibtimes
General Dynamics spent millions on campaign donations and lobbying in the lead-up to a Senate vote for the arms deal.
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PSR delegation delivers your petitions to the White House | Physicians for Social Responsibility
On Sept. 15, PSR representatives delivered three petitions to White House Office of Public Engagement staff urging President Obama to reduce nuclear weapons dangers as he was preparing for his final speech to the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday, Sept. 20.
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Vote this Week to Block Arms Deal to Saudi Arabia, CodePink speaks out | United for Peace and Justice, DemocracyNow!
This week, the week of Sept. 19, the Senate will vote on the Murphy-Paul-Franken-Lee bill to block a $1.15 billion arms deal to Saudi Arabia.
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Reducing the Dangers of Nuclear War: Practical results from the #MITNukes conference | Future of Life Institute
Even though we have way more nuclear weapons than necessary to deter an enemy attack, planning to spend 4 million dollars every hour for the next 30 years to upgrade our nuclear arsenal makes us less safe by increasing the risk of accidental nuclear war.
Read More »Middle East
While U.S. promises $38 Billion to Israel over 10 years, pols fight over proposed $1.1 Billion to Saudi Arabia
Israel and the United States have reached an agreement that will provide Israel an unprecedented amount of military aid over a decade.
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Does Anyone in Syria Fear International Law? | The New Yorker
Western countries and the United Nations have spent the past five and a half years condemning atrocity after atrocity in Syria, to no avail. With justice so limited by geopolitics, who in Syria is afraid of international law?
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Video: Far from the public eye, Palestinian villages are being dried out | 972 Mag
Qarawat Bani Hassan, a Palestinian village in the West Bank water shortage since Israel’s national water company decided to reduce its supply.
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Syria: Another Pipeline War | Robert F. Kennedy Jr. via Ecowatch
"America's unsavory record of violent interventions in Syria—obscure to the American people yet well known to Syrians—sowed fertile ground for the violent Islamic Jihadism ...."
Read More »Human Rights
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Yale to Face Protests for Whitewashing Paul Kagame’s Human Rights Record | Real News Network
Journalist and Yale alum Anjan Sundaram says Yale is ignoring the Rawandan president's atrocious record in both Rwanda and Congo.
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‘Pardon Snowden’ Campaign Launches, Led by ACLU, Amnesty & Human Rights Watch | Democracy Now!
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Chelsea Manning Begins Hunger Strike Against Prison Conditions | Countercurrents
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UN Human Rights Council: Addressing the human rights situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo | Human Rights Watch
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Joint letter to UN Human Rights Council on Ethiopia | Human Rights Watch
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Turkmenistan is Not Free After All | Human Rights Watch
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How not to defeat ISIS; Villagers in Afghanistan terrorized | HRW Daily Brief
Peace in the Arts
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‘Pardon Snowden’ Campaign Launches, Led by ACLU, Amnesty & Human Rights Watch | Democracy Now!
The release of Oliver Stone’s film comes amid a stepped-up campaign by the ACLU, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International for President Obama to pardon Edward Snowden before he leaves office in January.
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Podcast: What Does Expanding the Definition of War Mean for the U.S. Military? | Foreign Policy
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(Book excerpt) Fighting for Peace at ‘Hurricane Street’ | Truthdig
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Bahrain arrests ‘political poet’ amid free speech crackdown | Middle East Eye
Latin America
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IRS goes after Pastors for Peace for sending aid to Cuba | incubatoday.com
“The IRS claimed that our work to bring humanitarian aid and build friendship with the Cuban people was done in violation of the Treasury Department’s ‘Trading with the Enemy Act,’” the organization said. The organization said the act is politically motivated.
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The paradox of Colombia’s peace deal for FARC | The Washington Post
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In Colombia, peace means sustainable development | The Economic Times
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Cuban officials touring St. Petersburg this weekend as they eye consulate | Tampa Bay Times
Africa
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Yale to Face Protests for Whitewashing Paul Kagame’s Human Rights Record | Real News Network
Journalist and Yale alum Anjan Sundaram says Yale is ignoring the Rawandan president's atrocious record in both Rwanda and Congo.
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Pollution forces N-Delta fishermen, farmers to abandon occupation | Vanguard News
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UN Human Rights Council: Addressing the human rights situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo | Human Rights Watch
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Joint letter to UN Human Rights Council on Ethiopia | Human Rights Watch
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South Sudan: One year since peace deal, justice still elusive for victims | Amnesty International
Events
No War in 2016 conference Sept. 23-25, Washington D.C.
Please join The Real News as we stream the #NoWar2016 conference live from DC on Friday Sept 23, from noon to 8pm ET and Saturday Sept 24, from 9am to 7:30pm ET.
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WRL to present 2016 Peace Award to Jannat Alghezzi of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016
Join WRL in presenting the 2016 Peace Award to Jannat Alghezzi of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq 6:30-9 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016, New York City
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Global Day of Prayer for Syria, Sept. 21, 2016 | Fellowship of Reconciliation
Five-plus years of war have taken a heavy toll on our Syrian brothers and sisters. It is time for the violence and war to stop and to begin the hard work of moving forward, toward a future where all Syrians can live together in peace and security.
Read More »International Day of Peace Tree Dedication and Concert with Mustafa Adil Sept. 24, Wilson Library New Haven
Please join the City of New Haven Peace Commission as they celebrate the International Day of Peace by planting and dedicating a tree with live music and readings on peace by students.
Read More »Economy
Former EU Official Among Politicians in New Leak of Offshore Files from The Bahamas | ICIJ
“Bahamas has taken an attitude of selective noncompliance with its own laws, and it is now pushing out this message with a nudge, nudge, wink, wink.” – Nicholas Shaxson
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In Colombia, peace means sustainable development | The Economic Times
In Colombia peace means sustainable development. Huge economic benefits will derive from the decision of solving the armed conflict and attaining peace in Colombia.
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Pope Francis: Capitalism is ‘Terrorism Against All of Humanity’ | Common Dreams
"Terrorism grows when there is no other option, and as long as the world economy has at its center the god of money and not the person," the pope told reporters.
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Secret Offshore Deals Deprive Africa of Billions in Natural Resource Dollars | ICIJ
A cross-border bribery scandal described in a report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists is one of dozens of cases in Africa in which companies created or administered by Mossack Fonseca have played a role in oil, gas and mining deals that have spawned public allegations of tax dodging, corruption, environmental destruction or other misconduct.
Read More »Asia
UN chief: Reducing Korea tensions key issue | AP Interview
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday that reducing tensions on the Korean peninsula is one of the most serious issues facing the world because the impact North Korea's use of nuclear weapons would have.
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Japan: Veterans for Peace Join Protests Against U.S. Base on Okinawa | Democracy Now!
Delegations of Veterans for Peace activists have arrived in Okinawa, Japan, to join protests against ...
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Myanmar’s Suu Kyi to hold major peace summit with ethnic rebels | Reuters
Myanmar has been torn by fighting between the military, which seized power in the 1962 coup, and ethnic armed groups since the end of the Second World War
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Dangerous Seas: China and The U.S. | Conn Hallinan
The U.S. can resist that inevitability, but only by relying on its overwhelming military power and constructing an alliance system reminiscent of the Cold War. That should give pause to all concerned.
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