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Progressives Push Back as Trump, Pentagon, and ICE 'Hijack' MLK's Message

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., an increasingly vocal critic of the U.S. war in Vietnam, speaks on the subject at the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. on February 8, 1968. (Photo: Joseph Klipple/Getty Images)

Heightening Risk of Accidental Nuclear War, Russia Follows Trump's Lead and Withdraws From Open Skies Treaty

Kenny Stancil, staff writer

An inflatable nuclear missile balloon stands at the ready before Global Zero's rally to eliminate nuclear weapons begins in McPherson Square on April 1, 2016 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Moscow is reportedly willing to reverse its decision to pull out if the U.S. rejoins the pact credited with helping to prevent nuclear war.

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'Wanton Cruelty': Pompeo to Declare Houthis a Terrorist Group, Sparking Fears of Worsening Famine in Yemen

Kenny Stancil, staff writer

Girls collect water from a well in Hajjah province, north Yemen on December 11, 2020. As a result of the U.S. State Department's decision, Oxfam noted, "humanitarian aid, goods, and personnel will be blocked from entering northern Yemen, where 70% of the population lives." (Photo: Mohammed Al-Wafi/Xinhua via Getty)

Oxfam called the designation "a counter-productive and dangerous policy that...

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'His Biggest—And Likely Most Disastrous—Stunt Yet'? Experts Warn a Desperate Trump May Attack Iran

Kenny Stancil, staff writer

The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, one of the world's largest battleships, will remain in the Persian Gulf, the Pentagon announced on Sunday, January 3, 2021. (Photo: Photo 12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

"It may be the case that his most erratic, most reckless lashing out is yet to...

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Street art in Belfast depicts Saudi Arabia's Prince Ben Salman buying missiles, which are used against Yemeni civilians, from U.S. President Donald Trump and former U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May. (Photo: Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Images)

Lame-Duck Trump's "Middle East Arms Bonanza" Continues With Approval of $290 Million Sale to Saudi Regime

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden speaks during a news conference at his transition headquarters on December 16, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. (Photo: Kevin Lamarque-Pool/Getty Images)

To Help 'Reshape How America Engages a Changed World,' Biden Given Slate of Progressive Foreign Policy Picks

Fighter planes parked on the deck of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier U.S.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower on November 29, 2016. (Photo: Seaman Casey S. Trietsch/U.S. Navy/Flickr/cc)

With Endless War Abroad and Endless Suffering at Home, Peace Group Warns Against Making NDAA Fight All About Trump

The Minnesota Air National Guard salutes frontline workers at Minnesota hospitals with a flyover in St. Paul. (Photo by: Michael Siluk/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

'Money For War': US Arms Sales Soar and Bipartisan Militarism Thrives Amid Covid-19 Pandemic

U.S. Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.), who is facing Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jon Ossoff in a runoff race on January 5, speaks to a crowd of supporters during a "Defend the Majority" rally at the Georgia National Fairgrounds and Agriculture Center on November 19, 2020 in Perry, Georgia. (Photo: Jessica McGowan/Getty Images)

'Utterly Inexcusable': Sen. Perdue of Georgia Profited From Defense Contractor's Stock While Overseeing Naval Spending

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the White House in Washington, D.C. on October 23, 2019 as Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo look on. (Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

A Defeated Trump 'Has No Authorization for a New War,' Say Campaigners After NYT Reports President Wanted Military Strike Options for Iran

MLK mugshot

'Sit This One Out': FBI Slammed for Social Media Shoutout to Martin Luther King Jr.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is shoved back by Mississippi patrolmen during the 1966 March Against Fear from Memphis to Jackson

Countering Annual Whitewash of His Legacy, Progressives Remember the 'Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Imperialist' Martin Luther King Jr.

CodePink's Medea Benjamin poses in front a tank ahead of the "Salute to America" Fourth of July event with US President Donald Trump at the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, DC, on July 3, 2019.

'Tanks But No Tanks': Demonstrators Get Ready to Counter Trump's July Fourth Monstrosity on Capitol Hill

The Poor People's Campaign event

Instead of Death and Destruction, Poor People's Moral Budget Shows What It Looks Like to 'Invest in Life'

Call for Global Ban as Poll Shows Overwhelming Public Opposition to 'Horrifying' Killer Robots

Newswire

Women Cross DMZ

New Feminist Peace Initiative Releases Movement-Driven Foreign Policy Framework

Win Without War

House Passes $740 Billion Defense Appropriations in the Middle of a Pandemic

350.org

New Report Shows How Fossil Fuel Corporations, Utilities, and Fossil-Financiers Help Direct, Sponsor, Partner With, and Fund Police Foundation

Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)

Center for Constitutional Rights Denounces Federal Forces in U.S. Cities, Militarized Crackdowns on Protesters, Rising Authoritarianism

ACLU

ACLU Comment on Reported DHS Plans to Deploy Federal Forces to Chicago

Demand Progress

70 Orgs to Dem Leadership: Next HFAC Chair Must Bring A New Vision of U.S. Foreign Policy

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Danny Sjursen

Peering Into a Forever-War Crystal Ball

Joseph Gerson

A New Day for Human Survivial: On the Promise of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

Gerry Condon

Veteran Celebrates Nuclear Ban Treaty

Belén Fernández

Here We Go Again, But Now the Target Is Iran

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies

Will the Senate Confirm Coup Plotter Victoria Nuland?

Mary Miller

There's Nothing Vegan About War

Sharon Squassoni

Biden Must Retire the Illogical Great Power Competition Paradigm

Christopher D. Cook

We Must Not Allow Violent Pro-Trump Insurrection to Usher in New Anti-Protest Laws

William Astore

We're All Prisoners of War Now

Daniel Ellsberg

Will Unprovoked War With Iran Be Trump's Parting Gift to the World?