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I come and stand at every door But none shall hear my silent tread I knock and yet remain unseen” -Nazim Hikmet On July 18, 2017, at a U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing focused on “The Four Famines: Root Causes and a Multilateral Action Plan,” Republican Senator Todd Young, a former Marine, asked Read more…
War profiteers and self-marketing politicians have no interest in helping U.S. people understand that war itself is a tyrant
This week, in New York City, representatives from more than100 countries will begin collaborating on an international treaty, first proposed in 2016, to ban nuclear weapons forever. It makes sense for every country in the world to seek a legally binding ban on nuclear weapons. It would make even more sense to immediately deactivate all Read more…
We should, individually and collectively, do all that we can to prohibit U.S. supported Saudi-led coalition onslaughts against Yemeni civilians
Time is on no-one’s side as regards the crisis in Yemen
Congress could put an end to U.S. complicity in the crimes against humanity being committed by military forces in Yemen
We cannot look the other way as military and economic warfare destroys lives, communities and cultures
We must ground ourselves in reality and in solidarity with the greater part of the world’s people
Our shared future requires faith that whatever lays ahead, small gestures undertaken now – a folded message, a careful planting – are not lost
During my four stints in U.S. federal prisons, I’ve witnessed long-term inmates’ unconquerably humane response when a newcomer arrives