The first PEP Talk reports on the end of war in the Western Hemisphere and the factors that led to such a remarkable outcome. You can subscribe to the PEP Talks' YouTube channel: PEP Talks inside.

War and violence led to some 65.6 million people being forced from their homes at the end of 2016, an increase of about 300,000 people over the previous year

Needed: more Watchmen and Watchwomen. A drone base may soon be coming to your own neighborhood.

Without debate and limitations, America will remain in a state of perpetual war, with civil liberties threatened, countless dollars spent and human lives lost in pursuit of vague, open-ended and potentially unwinnable objectives.

The resolution directs managers of the $3 billion Everence church fund to regularly screen holdings to avoid any economic support for Israeli policies in the occupied territories.

A man who served the U.S. in Iraq, who along with his wife and children were cleared and vetted for over two years, will now be indefinitely barred from finding the refuge that he was offered by the United States government that he served.

Jones is the senior State Department official at the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, which covers the Middle East and North Africa, from Iran to Morocco.

“... While the Senate failed to block the sale outright, the close vote sent a clear message to the Trump administration and Saudi Arabia that the status quo won’t last," said Jon Rainwater, Executive Director of Peace Action.

"Exercising my ‘reasoned judgment,’ I have no doubt that the right to a climate system capable of sustaining human life is fundamental to a free and ordered society.” ~ U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken

The podcast Are You Listening? takes a look at some of the stories that have recently come out of the Global Voices newsroom.

There is a question as to whether the lab is fit to continue to operate and handle increasing quantities of plutonium in coming years after a series of problems with management in maintenance and cleanup.