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When all the news seems bad, it times to remember -- we’ve had some successes, too.

There’s an urgent need to hit the reset button on US-Korean policy before one of the players hits a much more catastrophic button that could lead us into a nuclear nightmare.

Code Pink is asking everyone to "Tell President Trump to give Tillerson the opportunity to show us he’s a diplomat" and to send him to North Korea. Click for info on signing the MoveOn.org petition.

North Korea has reacted angrily to international sanctions that will cut $1 billion from its exports, describing the new United Nations Security Council bans as "a rampant violation of our sovereignty."

"[The] assertion that 'since setting off the nuclear age, America has been the major, if imperfect, force behind the restraints that exist' ignores the sorry history of the United States’ provocative expansion of its nuclear arms and its rejection of numerous offers ... to ratchet down the hostilities." ~ Alice Slater, World Beyond War

Despite the resistance of the U.S., UK and France, the nuclear ban treaty marks the beginning of the end of the nuclear age.

Since 2001 the US has been at War in Afghanistan – the longest war in US history. Headlines concisely tell the story of this cruel boomeranging quagmire of human violence and misery.

Unjust scrutiny and attack are already part of Palestinians’ daily life, and the coalition behind Sumud is encouraging internationals — and Jews in particular — to join them in their struggle on the ground.

Videos related to the fight against fascism will begin at 6:30 p.m. Monday Aug. 28 at Best Video and Cultural Center in Hamden.

On the 17th of each month the Greater Hartford Coalition on Cuba holds a one-hour informational picket and leaflet distribution at various locations in the region.

The Danes did not end the push-back from the economic elite. Class struggle remains a reality in Denmark, as it does everywhere but their story of struggle offers valuable lessons for the rest of us. Especially those of us who want to be happy.

Review of Easternization: Asia’s Rise and America’s Decline from Obama to Trump and Beyond ~ by Gideon Rachman

US vows to take 'all necessary steps' to combat threat as it carries out military drills with South Korea

The melting of the glaciers overlooking Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan threatens the water supply of some 68 million people.