• Blowback from Wars Abroad

The increasing use of military tactics and forces within the United States is closely connected to decades of militarized foreign policy. Military practices developed and normalized overseas, including armed intervention, occupation, and counterinsurgency, are increasingly reflected at home in immigration enforcement, the policing of protests, and expanded domestic security operations.

• Presented by the Peace Action Committee on April 22, 2025

As the toll of death and destruction mounts in the Ukraine war, political efforts by the U.S. to secure peace are under way. The webinar panelists will address the many challenges to achieving a negotiated settlement, including historic, military, and political factors. Join us for a thorough discussion of the prospects for peace in Ukraine.

On November 29, 1947 the United Nations adopted Resolution 181 that would divide Great Britain's former Palestinian mandate into Jewish and Arab states. In the intervening years, Israel has been engaged in a series of wars with adjacent Arab states and displaced Palestinians.

• Sponsored by the Peace Action Committee

All wars begin with lies, and the lies serve to conceal the real motives for war. Government motives for mass killing (war) include war machine profits, geopolitics, and plundering of resources. As the general population uncovers the real reasons for the war, government propaganda becomes less effective, which leads to growing dissent and repression of dissent. 

WASHINGTON — The National Committee of the Green Party of the United States has voted to endorse the March 18 peace rally in Washington D.C. This demonstration coincides with the 20th anniversary of the U.S. illegal invasion of Iraq and is consistent with the commitment to peace of the Green Party, which distinguishes it from the two dominant U.S. political parties. The Ukraine war is the largest armed conflict occurring in Europe since WWII. This war has already caused hundreds of thousands of casualties and millions of refugees, but it poses an even greater danger to mankind: the danger of escalation to a nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia.