DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP COOPERATES WITH THE BUSH EXPANSION OF THE IRAQ-IRAN WAR –   Woolsey and Nadler Bills Most Forceful but Likely to Die Without Massive Grassroots Pressure By Nick Mottern, Director, ConsumersforPeace.org In spite of protestations about the Bush Administration’s hike in troop levels in Iraq, the Democratic Congressional leadership is essentially cooperating through inaction… Continue reading Democrat Leaders Cooperate with Bush on War Expansion

Tale of Two Sisters: Why Is HUD Using Tens of Millions of Katrina Money to Bulldoze 4534 Public Housing Apartments in New Orleans When It Costs Less to Repair and Open Them Up? By Bill Quigley. Bill is a human rights lawyer and law professor at Loyola University New Orleans. Bill is one of the… Continue reading HUD Destroying NOLA Public Housing

by Avery Friend The streets were packed and Lori could barely breathe as she pushed her way through, her thick black hair sticking to the back of her neck. Her ponytail holder had slowly slipped down for nearly an hour before she had finally ripped it out and wrapped it around her wrist – they… Continue reading Remember

This Buddhist monk, of the Nipponzan Myohoji Order, was sitting outside across from the White House, chanting Na Mu Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo on a beautiful day in April, 2006. We chatted – and had mutual friends in the New England Peace Pagoda – and she kindly allowed me to digitally record her lovely… Continue reading Buddhist Monk Chanting for Peace

Killing of Anthony Hayes by NOLA Police – 12/26/05 Four clips are sequenced of the scene of this killing by police on December 26, 2005. The video is jumpy, for understandable reasons. This was a very tense situation that ended in tragedy. A question: How could this man, even with a little knife, have posed… Continue reading Killing of Anthony Hayes by NOLA Police – 12/26/05

MICHAEL KLARE FORESEES YEARS OF IRAQ BLOODSHED AND CHAOS December 19, 2006 By Nick Mottern, Director, ConsumersforPeace.org On December 5, a day before the release of the Iraq Study Group report, I interviewed Michael Klare about what he envisions happening in Iraq.

Perpetual War for Peace? …Iraq…Iran…& the Corporate Agenda This is a television production of Traprock Peace Center on November 3, 2006 that featured Antonia Juhasz, Rostam Pourzal, and Raed Jarrar – with Sunny Miller, Traprock’s Director, as moderator and Executive Producer. [Video requires Shockwave Player. Intel based Macs using the Firefox browser must open Firefox… Continue reading Perpetual War for Peace?

Anthony Arnove, author of “Iraq: the Logic of Withdrawal” spoke at the plenary session of the Campus Antiwar Network’s Midwest Regional Conference at the University of Illinois at Chicago on April 22, 2006. He makes the case for immediate withdrawal, and points out the lies that led to war, and the lies that sustain the… Continue reading End Iraq War Now – Anthony Arnove

We have published a new, important report by James Brooks on Israel’s use of exotic weaponry against Palestinians in Gaza. It is an extentively researched work, with over 50 links to resources (given the number of links, we make it available as a pdf file, rather than printed within the blog.) Brooks explores the nature… Continue reading Israel’s use of DIME bombs in context of DU

John Rees, a founder of the Stop the War Coalition in the Uk, gave a dynamic speech on the need to march in opposition to war, and the necessity of matching words with deeds. He spoke at the London International Peace Conference, attended by 1400 international delegates, during December 10-11, 2005. See full coverage of… Continue reading John Rees on Iraq and activism