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

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.

The novelist Arundhati Roy on how coronavirus threatens India — and what the country, and the world, should do next

Release Low-Level Offenders; Prioritize Older and Ill Prisoners

The urgency of the situation calls for drastic changes to business as usual. We can turn the COVID-19 crisis into a critical opportunity for international cooperation on the Korean Peninsula

From the March-April 2020 issue of News & Letters Editor’s note: This is the print version of a longer essay. Peacenews.org columnist Joseph Daher’s study, Syria After the Uprisings: The Political Economy of State Resilience (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2019), investigates the resilience of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in the face of a popular revolution that began nine years ago, in March ...

“If you took pictures of the detainees now, you would see people who looked like those that are in the Caesar photographs, only they would be alive … The ones who died are the lucky ones.” ~ former detainee

Now more than ever nonviolent energy is urgently required to respond to the world of hurt that the COVID-19 tsunami is leaving in its wake. ~ Ken Butigan

What could possibly link the Chinese city of Wuhan to Chernobyl, the site of one of the worst nuclear disasters in history? At first glance, not much, except that the Chinese term —- (the transcription of Chernobyl appears in simplified Chinese) has surged on Chinese social media when discussing the outbreak of COVID-19, the flu caused by the coronavirus first ...

Decision Spotlights Vanishing Freedoms Under Beijing Pressure

What we’re witnessing tomorrow is another legacy of the 2003 U.S. military invasion. Iraqi protesters are revolting against a corrupt, sectarian regime backed by foreign powers ....