The US Cult of Bombing and Endless War

This country’s propensity for believing that its ability to rain hellfire from the sky provides a winning methodology for its wars has proven to be a fantasy of our age. Whether in Korea in the early 1950s, Vietnam in the 1960s, or more recently in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, the...
Comforting The Afflicted And Afflicting The Comfortable

The drive to narrow the focus of education by reducing it to test-taking focused almost exclusively on literacy and mathematics, things that are easily measured, while pushing aside the more uncomfortable disciplines like art, philosophy, and the humanities has accelerated over the past couple decades. The comfortable are disturbed by...
If Trump Really Only Wants ‘No Iranian Nukes,’ Then He Should Just Rejoin the Nuclear Deal

Trump said at a news conference in Japan, “We aren’t looking for regime change – I just want to make that clear. We are looking for no nuclear weapons." But Trump breached the treaty the US and other members of the UN Security Council signed with Iran in 2015, which...
18 Ways Julian Assange Changed the World

So why have so many outlets and people turned against Assange and WikiLeaks? Because it turned out he wasn’t revealing only repressive Arab regimes. He also revealed U.S.-backed coups and war crimes around the world. He exposed the criminality and villainy of the American ruling elite. You won’t see the...
The United States of… American Exceptionalism and Overseas Meddling

From 1946 to 2000, the Russians -- the Soviet Union until 1991 -- engaged in a staggering 36 “partisan election interventions” globally. The United States took the crown with 81 interventions! The two Cold War superpowers together meddled in approximately “one of every nine competitive elections" in that era in...
Are ExxonMobil Execs the Most Evil People in the 200K-Year History of Humanity?

CEOs of ExxonMobil such as Lee Raymond or Rex Tillerson or currently Darren Woods are banal in their evil. But they are much worse in the practical effect of their evil than Hitler or Pol Pot or any of the other genocidal maniacs we’ve seen in the past century. They...
PPJC Action Forum

The Peninsula's Leading Activist Group will continue to fight for justice in our community and abroad. Attend Sat June 8th to share your ideas for the future of the peace center. We want to hear from YOU!
‘This Is Unprecedented’: Judge Orders Chelsea Manning Jailed, Imposes Daily $500 Fine After 30 Days Behind Bars

A federal judge on Thursday ordered U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning back to jail for refusing to testify before a secretive grand jury and imposed a $500 fine for every day she is in custody after 30 days. After 60 days, the fine will increase to $1,000 per day.
The Threat of War with Iran

Iran is three times the size and population as Iraq and has a modern military force with missiles capable of reaching U.S. bases, navy ships, and troop concentrations up to 1,200 miles away. A war would effectively close shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, through which 40 percent of the...
How Democracy Dies: Big Brother is Erasing the Public Record

Today, when it comes to repeated acts meant to erase reality’s record and memory, it wouldn’t be Eastern Europe or Russia that came to mind but the United States. With the release of the Mueller report, the word “redaction” is once again in the news, though for those of us...