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      War Industry 'Celebrating Christmas Early' as House Passes $858 Billion NDAA

      "There is no justification to throw... $858 billion at the Pentagon when we're told we can't afford child tax credit expansion, universal paid leave, or other basic human necessities," said the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen. "End of story."

      Brett Wilkins
      Dec 08, 2022

      Peace advocates on Thursday slammed the House of Representatives' passage of a mammoth $858 billion military spending bill as an early holiday gift for the Pentagon and the weapons corporations who benefit from the United States' ongoing--but largely forgotten--War on Terror.

      "While working families are being crushed by inflation, we shouldn't be spending $45 billion MORE than the president requested in the NDAA."

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      Protests in 40+ US Cities Demand Deescalation as Poll Shows Surging Fear of Nuclear War

      "Anyone paying attention should be worried about the rising dangers of nuclear war, but what we really need is action," said one organizer.

      Julia Conley
      Oct 14, 2022

      As new polling showed this week that Americans' fear of nuclear war has steadily grown since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, anti-nuclear campaigners on Friday called on federal lawmakers to take action to mitigate those fears and ensure the U.S. is doing all it can to deescalate tensions with other nuclear powers.

      Anti-war groups including Peace Action and RootsAction organized picket lines at the offices of U.S. senators and representatives in more than 40 cities across 20 states, calling on lawmakers to push for a ceasefire in Ukraine, the revival of anti-nuclear treaties the U.S. has exited in recent years, and other legislative actions to prevent nuclear catastrophe.

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      Signs read "Diplomacy Not Destruction" and "No Nuclear War"

      Let's Defuse Nuclear War, Together

      At this time of dire threat, we can't sit back and rely on politicians to get it right.

      Kevin Martin
      Oct 13, 2022

      Sixty years ago this month, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, I was in my mother's womb. My young, sweet mom was terrified she'd never get to see me be born, as the world teetered on the brink of unimaginable calamity. It's bewildering to me that nuclear crises bookend my life at this point, especially with my having worked for nuclear disarmament since 1983. But here we are, perhaps closer to nuclear catastrophe, with Russian President Vladimir Putin's thinly veiled nuclear threats in his disastrous war against Ukraine, than at any time since John Kennedy and Nikita Khruschev found a path back from the brink six decades ago.

      Decades of progress in reducing the overall number of nuclear weapons in the world has recently been undercut by backsliding on nuclear weapons treaties, lack of progress on disarmament (in fact, the opposite, a new arms race with all nuclear states upgrading their arsenals), and hypocrisy on non-proliferation by the nuclear powers. There are now nine nuclear-armed states--the US, Russia, China, France, Britain, Pakistan, India, Israel and North Korea--and many more that could go nuclear if they so choose. Clearly, humanity has so far failed to deal with the existential threat of the weaponized atom.

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