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14 October 2013
Slavery was believed permanent longer than war has been
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David Swanson
This article is excerpted from the new book War No More: The Case for Abolition.
In the late eighteenth century the majority of people alive on earth were held in slavery or serfdom (three-quarters of the earth's population,...
14 October 2013
2,000 lashes of the whip & 10 years in jail for "Naked Dancing" in Saudi Arabia
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- A Saudi Arabian court sentenced four men to prison for up to 10 years, plus up to 2,000 lashes with a whip, after they were convicted in what the local media dubbed as the "naked dancing" case, Al-Sharq newspaper...
13 October 2013
Snowden Accepts Whistleblower Award
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Ray McGovern
National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, from his asylum in Russia, accepted an award on Wednesday from a group of former U.S. intelligence officials expressing support for his decision to divulge secrets about the NSA's...
09 October 2013
India's Hindu temples possess gold worth half of Fort Knox
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- India's Hindu temples possess donated gold which may equal half of America's Fort Knox bullion, but some are rejecting demands by the government to reveal the value of their sacred stockpiles.

"India's...
09 October 2013
Beginning the ending of war
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David Swanson
This article is the Introduction to the new book War No More: The Case for Abolition, published in October 2013.
As I write this, in September 2013, something extraordinary has just happened. Public pressure has led the...
05 October 2013
World Action Now on Fukushima
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Harvey Wasserman
Journalist, author, activist and historian Harvey Wasserman has been reporting on, and participating in, the nuclear free movement for decades. In that time, by his judgment, only one other event matches the danger to the world posed by...

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