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Congress is now debating whether to extend part of the Patriot Act that allows the government to look at someone's web browsing and Internet search history without a warrant.
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Meet the new generation of tax resisters refusing to pay for war | Waging Nonviolence
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Finding Peace in the Face of Humanity’s Common Enemy | Buddhistdoor
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The choice for global nonviolence is sharper than ever | Campaign Nonviolence
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Coronavirus Crisis Makes Clear Pentagon Should Get No More Money This Year for Its ‘Wasteful War Machine’: 60+ Groups | Common Dreams News
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‘He’s Got Eight Numbers, Just Like Everybody Else’: An Anti-Nuclear Activist Behind Bars | Common Dreams Views
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US Response to Coronavirus in North Korea Can Save Lives and Lead to Peace | Common Dreams Views
Environment
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US fossil fuel giants set for a coronavirus bailout bonanza | The Guardian
Exclusive: oil, coal and fracking companies in line to benefit from $750bn bond scheme
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Sweden Shuts Down Its Last Coal Plant Two Years Early | EcoWatch
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Indian Point nuke plant shutting down | Gazettenet
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Airlines and oil giants are on the brink. No government should offer them a lifeline | George Monbiot, via The Guardian
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‘Nature’ joins media outlets in a week of intensive reporting called ‘Covering Climate Now’ | Nature
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War is NOT Green: on the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, Divest from the War Machine
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Silence of the Climate Watchdogs | Covering Climate Now
Columnists
A Feeling of Resurgence on 72nd Nakba Day | Jeff Halper
No one wants to see an oppressive apartheid regime strengthened and expanded, with all the more suffering we can expect.
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Fatal Disconnect | Jeff Halper
Too often we have to choose between being an academic and being an activist. It's a fatal disconnect for radical political change.
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Going Slowly to 100% Renewables … by 2025? | Dan Fischer
"... There are so many risks and uncertainties that it would be highly reckless to push for anything less than a drastically rapid and just transition, perhaps in five years."
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Cowardly Congress Chooses to be AWOL: Shouldn’t Our Elected Representatives be on the Job Providing Essential Services? | Ralph Nader
Just dial your member or the Congressional switchboard (202-224-3141) and make your needs known. Remind them that if they don’t get back to work, you’ll remember in November.
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Policy from the People: Seizing Agency | Fellow Travelers
We have the tools we need to direct how our country behaves as a global citizen, we just need to focus on using them.
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First in Military Spending, Last in Our COVID-19 Response | Inkstick
The COVID-19 crisis reveals an obvious truth about our exorbitant military spending: It isn’t keeping us safe.
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How the Promise of American Jobs Became Entangled in a Faraway War | The New York Times
Raytheon, which has close ties to the Trump administration, depends on Saudi Arabia for 5 percent of its annual revenue, and needs U.S. government approval to sell its weapons overseas.
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Biden Gets Push From Progressive Groups to Slash Pentagon Budget | Foreign Policy
A month after Sen. Bernie Sanders endorsed his rival Joe Biden as the Democratic Party’s ...
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Virtual Climate Rally Sat. April 25 at 1 p.m. Eastern
Click Here to Register for the Event #CT4ClimateJustice Event Schedule First Section Speakers: Kate Donnelly: ...
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Online World Conference — Abolish Nuclear Weapons; Resist and Reverse the Climate Crisis; For Social and Economic Justice
As we confront the twin existential threats of nuclear weapons and climate change, IPB is pushing back in its role as a lead co-sponsor of a historic movement building World Conference and rally for nuclear weapons abolition, peace, the climate and justice.
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Promoting Enduring Peace Annual Meeting on Zoom 1 p.m. Saturday March 28
The Promoting Enduring Peace Annual Meeting is scheduled to take place online only via Zoom video conference beginning at 1 p.m. Saturday March 28. Stay tunes to this post for connection details
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Mass Poor People’s Assembly & Moral March on Washington June 2020 | Poor People’s Campaign
A National Call for Moral Revival .... Click for more information.
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Rethinking Unconstrained Military Spending | United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs
This publication addresses the issue of military spending from various angles by examining the impact of military expenditures on international security
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How To Head Off the Next Nuclear Arms Race | Forbes
Popular pressure is urgently needed at the global level to eliminate nuclear weapons altogether, as called for by the Nobel-prize winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
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Stop the New Intercontinental Ballistic Missile | FCNL
Congress should stop the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent missile before it’s too late.
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Prevent the outbreak of another global security threat. Extend New START | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
We’re not only at a pivotal point in the struggle against the fast-moving coronavirus; we are also at a tipping point in the long-running effort to reduce the threat of nuclear war and eliminate nuclear weapons
Read More »Middle East
Call to Action! Week of Palestinian Struggle, 15-22 May 2020
Call to Action! Week of Palestinian Struggle, 15-22 May 2020
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Syria’s Suffering Will Only Be Extended by Further Foreign Intervention | stopwar.org.uk
Chris Nineham: The desperate nine year war in Syria has been inflamed and prolonged by foreign interventions on all sides
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Sanders won’t attend AIPAC conference, accuses it of providing platform for ‘bigotry’ | TheHill
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) blasted the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on Sunday in a ...
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Trump’s ‘peace plan’ is a farce with deadly consequences | Jewish Voice for Peace
"This is in no way a peace plan – it’s an apartheid plan. It’s a distraction ploy by two warmongerers who are prioritizing their personal election campaigns over any semblance of statecraft ...." ~ Rabbi Alissa Wise
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In ‘Dark Mirror,’ Reporter Concludes: ‘Snowden Did Substantially More Good Than Harm’ | RSN
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Félicien Kabuga: Rwanda genocide suspect arrested in France | BBC News
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To maintain social distancing, immigrant rights groups use creative ‘drive-by protests’ | Waging Nonviolence
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Questions and Answers on the New US Landmine Policy | Human Rights Watch
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The DNC May Have Paved The Way For Julian Assange’s Acquittal | Shadowproof
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Yemen: Wartime Abuses Face Global Spotlight | Human Rights Watch
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Hong Kong Bars Human Rights Watch Head | Human Rights Watch
Peace in the Arts
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Filmmaker Josh Fox responds to Michael Moore on bombshell climate film | Rising via YouTube
Oscar Nominated Filmmaker Josh Fox responds to Michael Moore's 'Planet of the Humans' argues why he believes Moore misled the public on recent developments in renewable energy from the perspective of the scientific community for the sake of sensationalism.
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Protecting Nature in a Conservation Revolution | Dan Fischer via New Politics
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Review of Joseph Daher’s ‘Syria After the Uprising’ | Dan Fischer and Javier Sethness
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Coronavirus Wisdom from a Social Justice Lens | irresistible
Latin America
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US to deploy anti-drug Navy ships near Venezuela | AP
The deployment is one of the largest U.S. military operations in the region since the 1989 invasion of Panama to remove Gen. Manuel Noriega from power and bring him to the U.S. to face drug charges.
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Twitter Removes posts by Brazil’s Bolsonaro in crackdown on information that ‘may increase risk’ of Covid-19 spread | infowars.com
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The Fall of Evo Morales | The New Yorker
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Grassroots Peacebuilding and Reconciliation | FOR Peace Presence
Economy
The established order has never been weaker — movements need to get to work | Waging Nonviolence
The job for organizers then is to build a bridge from this crisis to the Green New Deal future.
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Letting the Pentagon Loose With Your Tax Dollars | TomDispatch
... When you also include war and security costs buried in the budgets of other agencies, the actual proposed new Pentagon budget comes in at more than $1.2 trillion ....
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Top DNC Committee Is Packed With Fossil Fuel and Bank Lobbyists | Truthout
Despite the pivotal role the DNC is likely to play in selecting who runs against President Trump, there is little public knowledge of who runs the party and who the superdelegates are.
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Building Pathways to a People’s Economy Free Virtual Conference | PeoplesHub
Hear how communities across the country can use policy as a tool for advancing solidarity economies
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Félicien Kabuga: Rwanda genocide suspect arrested in France | BBC News
Félicien Kabuga, one of the most wanted suspects of the Rwandan genocide, has been arrested ...
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Luanda Leaks | ICIJ
How Africa's richest woman exploited family ties, shell companies and inside deals to build an empire Isabel dos Santos made a fortune at the expense of the Angolan people.
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Prospects for revolution in Africa’s 55 countries | Waging Nonviolence
An overview of the current political situation in 55 African countries shows that many movements are making gains in the struggle against authoritarianism.
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Dispatches from a world in turmoil | Nature
Writing from Syria, Bolivia, Sudan, Iran, Chile, Egypt, Ecuador, Lebanon, Venezuela, Hong Kong and Catalonia, correspondents tell of altered priorities, day-to-day challenges and hope in the dark times.
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Kim Jong Un is still alive. What about peace with North Korea? | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
When Washington dismisses the pro-peace perspective, it denies voice to thousands of Korean Americans and limits creative solutions to the US-North Korea standoff, by Catherine Killough
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Outsiders consider possibility of chaos in North Korea | AP
South Korea believes Kim is alive and in control, and most analysts agree that even if he weren’t, Kim’s powerful sister, Kim Yo Jong, would likely take control.
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Arundhati Roy: ‘The pandemic is a portal’ | Financial Times
The novelist Arundhati Roy on how coronavirus threatens India — and what the country, and the world, should do next
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Philippines: Reduce Crowded Jails to Stop COVID-19 | Human Rights Watch
Release Low-Level Offenders; Prioritize Older and Ill Prisoners
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