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Donald Trump Is Completely Betraying His MAGA Base
Trump Opens a Big Can of Worms Donald Trump is completely betraying his MAGA base. His base elected him on a nationalist, isolationist platform centered around closed borders, pulling US troops out of foreign nations and stopping the neocons’ forever-wars.…
Fasting for Gazans: Kathy Kelly’s “Other Lands Have Dreams — Day 33
This will be the final of the “Fast for Gaza” conversations with peacemaker Kathy Kelly. It was the beginning of a brutal heat wave in NYC; we found a shady spot on the UN side of 1st Avenue. On the…
The Growing Nuclear Arsenals and Sharpened Rhetoric
The recent report from the Stockholm International Peace Institute (SIPRI), despite its assertion that “understanding the conditions for peaceful solutions to international conflicts is a key part of their work”, has just issued alarming news that there is a “clear…
People’s Arms Embargo to Return to Travis Air Force Base to Demand Travis: Stop Sending Weapons to Israel, Stop Aiding Unlawful Mass Deportations AND Disobey All Orders Enabling the Illegal War with Iran
What: Nonviolent Human Blockade and Vigil During morning commute into Travis Air Force Base. When: 6:30am, Tuesday, June 24; Where: Meet at Main Gate (Air Base Parkway and Parker Rd. in parking lot next to Chevron station) Activists from across Northern…
What’s Really Going on in Ukraine Now (It’s Way Worse Than You Think)
A Friend Asked Me a Question Yesterday A friend of mine posed a question to me yesterday. They asked: “I know you’re philosophically against war and all, but aren’t you at least rooting for Ukraine to win against Russia?” The…
Statement by H.E. Mr. Amir Saeid Iravani Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations Before the United Nations Security Council Emergency Meeting
We thank Anthony Donovan for providing Pressenza in NYC with the transcript of the statement delivered today, June 22, 2025, by Iran’s Ambassador to the U.N. during the Security Council Emergency Meeting. Thank you, Madam President, for your valuable efforts…
Lessons from Vieques: Resisting U.S. Militarism, Building Unity
Around two years ago, I watched a puppet show, created by a group of eight to 16-year-olds at the summer camp where I worked, about the eviction of the U.S. Navy from the island of Vieques. After I conducted a…
A ‘Profound Mistake’: Senate Republican Rollback of IRA Clean Energy Tax Credits Would Cost Jobs, Raise Energy Prices and Bring More Climate Extremes
The United States Senate Committee on Finance has released draft legislation that would quickly end or scale back most major tax credits for clean energy, solar panels, electric vehicles (EVs) and other benefits provided by the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes The plan would get rid…
Nonviolence is as American as Apple Pie
“The real American tradition isn’t war—it’s the people’s resistance to it.” On June 16, Rolling Stone reported on the recent “No Kings” demonstrations that revealed something profound about American values. In the article they noted that Saturday’s protests drew millions…
Crossing Into The Forbidden Zone (Beyond the Valley of the Neocons)
Preface to a Farewell Over the course of the last 3 and ½ years, my Pressenza articles have been primarily concerned with two things: 1) shedding a light on the incredibly dangerous, ideologically driven perpetual war-path that the US has…
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