The United States just announced it is walking away from a 1987 agreement made between the USA and the Soviet Union to eliminate a whole class of nuclear weapons that had been deployed in Europe and had put the continent on a trip-wire to nuclear war. The move points to the need for direct actions parliaments, cities, and citizens can take to stop the assault on arms control treaties and prevent a new nuclear arms race.
The so-called "less-lethal" weapons produced by US companies are used daily by the Israeli military and have been responsible for many Palestinian deaths.
If the Trump administration and its allies continue to pursue their reckless course in Venezuela, the most likely result will be bloodshed, chaos, and instability.
When it comes to creating bitter futures, the Trump administration’s treatment of children at the border is of a piece with the larger global attack on them. While on a smaller scale than in the Greater Middle East and beyond, acts against the young at our southern border certainly should evoke their counterparts elsewhere. In December and January, for example, the first deaths of children were recorded at American border detention centers.
Why are fashion outlets ignoring Bangladeshi garment-worker protests?
Source: The Guardian
Press on for what you believe in – a young woman’s election to Congress shows climate activism can have unforeseen results
It’s hard right now to remember how hot it was last August on the long sandy beach where the Colorado River meets the Green River in southern Utah. I was a few days into a rafting trip through Cataract Canyon with a bunch of young climate activists, and one of them, Will Munger, was telling me that since his months at the Standing Rock resistance camp, he had been encountering young Native people whose experiences at the protest site had encouraged them to dream of new possibilities and take actions that might otherwise have seemed out of reach.
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