The U.S. Peace Council (USPC), affiliated with the World Peace Council, condemns violence and murder at the hands of vanquished opponents of recently elected Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Defeated presidential candidate Henrique Capriles, a leader of the center-right Justice First Party, dist
Click on Image for Full StoryThe threat of war has been extended to Spring! Threatening to bomb Iran by Israel is a violation of International Law and the Charter of the United Nations. We demand that our voices be heard to stop a war with Iran. We want no part of another illegal war in the Middle East! We have stopped madnes
Click on Image for Full StoryBy Conn Hallinan Foreign Policy in Focus July 13, 2012 — Now that the talks with Iran on its nuclear program appear to be on the ropes, are we on the road to war? The Israelis threaten it almost weekly, and the Obama administration has reportedly drawn up an attack plan. But in a sense, we
Click on Image for Full StoryUS Peace Council February 6, 2012 As the drums of a military strike against Iran are getting louder and louder, the leaders of the United States and Israel, in a good-cop/bad-cop style of approach, are trying to present the U.S. and Israeli public opinion with an apparently “inevitable”
Click on Image for Full StoryIf you ask Iranians, they will tell you that the war against Iran has already begun. Some will take you back to 1953, when the US fired its first shot across the bow, taking out a democratically elected government in a CIA coup. Others will point to the political and financial
Click on Image for Full StoryConn M. Hallinan / Dispatches From The Edge / Jan. 15, 2013 / This past December marked the 190th anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine, the 1823 policy declaration by President James Monroe that essentially made Latin America the exclusive reserve of the United States. And if anyone has any doub
CEPRID – La Organización del Tratado del Atlántico Norte (OTAN) o NATO (por sus siglas en inglés) es la alianza militar más terrorífica y de mayor potencia destructiva, nunca antes concebida en la historia de la humanidad. En la actualidad es una grave amenaza para América Latina y el Caribe
CEPRID - The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is the most terrifying military alliance, with the most destructive power, ever conceived in the history of mankind. Today, it is a serious threat to Latin America and the Caribbean. The United States and its European allies created it in the
The Finnish Peace Committee -- a member of the World Peace Council -- jointly with other Finnish peace groups organized and hosted a civil society conference in support of the UN conference on the establishment of a Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons and all other weapons of mass destructi
John Burroughs, Executive Director of Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy (LCNP), reports on United Nations developments toward nuclear disarmament. Open-Ended Working Group It has been a most interesting fall at the United Nations, with definite signs of movement on breaking the nuclear logja
