War Is A Crime

Scientists tell us that a single nuclear weapon could cause devastating climate change.

Donald Trump tells us . . . well, a bunch of incoherent gibberish that seems to include the illegal threat to use nuclear weapons if he should be in the mood to commit genocide in North Korea.

Meanwhile 122 countries have creates a treaty to ban the possession of nuclear weapons, and 53 have already signed it, these 53:

Compare that map with the map of countries that own nuclear weapons:

Israel may be too small read more

November 11 is Armistice Day / Remembrance Day. Ninety-nine years ago, on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, fighting ceased in the “war to end all wars.” People went on killing and dying right up until the pre-designated moment, impacting nothing other than our understanding of the stupidity of war.

Thirty million soldiers had been killed or wounded and another seven million had been taken captive during World War I. Even more would die from a flu epidemic created by read more

Trump lowers temperature in simmering conflict with North Korea and claims pressure is working – The Washington Post

Trump: military option for North Korea not preferred, but would be ‘devastating’ for Pyongyang – Reuters

Trump insists North Korea’s Kim started war of words, ‘He’s saying things that should never, ever be said. And we’re replying to those things. It’s not an original statement’ – POLITICO

VIDEO: President Trump joint press conference with Spanish P.M. Mariano Rajoy (on North Korea starts at 5:00 min and 22:30 min) – YouTube

Trump administration sanctions North Korean banks, bank workers – CBS News

U.S. still seeks diplomatic solution to North Korea crisis, Mattis says – WSJ

McMaster: US has four or five North Korea scenarios, ‘Some uglier than others…What we hope to do is avoid war, but we cannot discount that possibility’ – bbsnews.net

Dunford says North Korea has not changed military posture despite rhetoric, the US military takes the risk of miscalculation into account when planning operations – TheHill

Tillerson to visit China this week for talks that will include the crisis over North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs – Reuters

US says it’s not pushing for regime change in North Korea – Fox News

According read more

What is freedom of religion? It is not actually or directly freedom to think or not think religious stuff, not to the extent that one can, or chooses to, keep one’s thoughts secret. Rather, it is the right to display or to refuse to display religiosity.

If you have freedom of religion, as I think everyone should, and if we all have the right to our own lives and well-being, as I think we should, then as long as you’re not hurting anyone else, you have the right to hold various things sacred: read more

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At the U.N. recently, Donald Trump followed up on his bloodcurdling threat to unleash on North Korea “fire and fury like the world has never seen” (essentially a warning of nuclear terror) with an even grimmer threat: to “totally read more

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It drove me crazy throughout the 2016 presidential campaign. Hillary Clinton (with all those high-priced consultants and aides) just kept pounding away at Donald Trump’s personality, which his many followers adored, and those unreleased tax returns of his, even though Americans have always read more

If you didn’t attend #NoWar2017 this past weekend, you can watch videos of the whole conference below.

Sept 22

VIDEO OF WHOLE FIRST DAY

7:00-7:55 p.m. Conference Opening Plenary: David Swanson, Jill Stein, Tim DeChristopher. VIDEO 1, VIDEO 2.

7:55 p.m. music by Bryan Cahall. VIDEO 2, VIDEO 3.

8:10-10 p.m. Begining with Edward Snowden (by video) introduced by Elizabeth Murray, our friends from the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence presented read more