Peace Perspectives

Stop Escalation. End the War.

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 15:40:27 -0500

The news is reporting that President Obama is likely to send 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan and that the Pentagon is getting ready to ask for $50 billion in additional funding for the wars after...

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Admiral Mullen Announces Afghanistan Strategy: Prepare to Nonviolently Resist

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 14:58:45 -0500

The Obama Administration now leading us down the path of the most expensive year in war funding since President Bush began the so-called "Global War on Terror" By Jeff Leys Co-Coordinator of...

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How to End Wars

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 14:55:11 -0500

By David Swanson Around the United States, peace groups are engaged in effective campaigns against proposed new military installations, local funding of weapons companies, and the routine...

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Conservative Christian Group Calls for "No More Muslims" In Military

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 14:43:29 -0500

By Nick Baumann Mother Jones The American Family Association, a conservative Christian group, has published an article on its website calling for Muslims to be barred from military service....

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Hasan Computer Reveals No Terror Ties

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 12:39:51 -0500

But Paper Says in 2001 Ft. Hood Shooting Suspect Attended Same Va. Mosque as Two 9/11 Hijackers CBS A preliminary review of the computer of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the accused shooter in...

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House Resolution Designates Venezuela a "State Sponsor of Terrorism"

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 12:16:13 -0500

By Stephen Lendman Global Research At a time of growing US poverty, hunger, homelessness, and despair, imperial wars without end, and the Obama administration even worse than its predecessor,...

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Two US chopper pilots die in 'hard landing': army

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 10:40:37 -0500

AFP Two US army pilots were killed when their helicopter crash landed at an American base in Salaheddin province in central Iraq, the military said in a statement on Monday."Two US army pilots...

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'Prepare for war,' Chavez warns Venezuelan military, populace

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 10:39:39 -0500

By Stephen C. Webster RAW Story The leader of the fifth-largest oil exporter in the world is warning his country's military and citizenry to prepare for war with Colombia and the United States,...

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U.S. Aware of Hasan Efforts to Contact al Qaeda

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 10:37:40 -0500

Army Major in Fort Hood Massacre Used 'Electronic Means' to Connect with Terrorists By RICHARD ESPOSITO, MATTHEW COLE and BRIAN ROSS ABC News U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago...

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African-Americans slam Obama in White House protest

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 10:32:49 -0500

AFP Decrying Barack Obama as "white power in black face," hundreds of African-Americans marched on the White House Saturday to protest policies of the first black US president, and demand that he...

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