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On Wednesday, November 17 at 6:30 PM At the People’s Forum 320 West 37th Street (between 8th & 9th Avenues) New York, NY 10018 People age 12 and older will be required to show proof of vaccine or negative COVID…

The 2021 US Peace Prize has been awarded to World BEYOND War “for exceptional global advocacy and creative peace education to end war and dismantle the war machine.” By US Peace Memorial Foundation Michael Knox, Chair of the US Peace…

The mass media are full of headlines announcing that a “watchdog” has concluded in an “independent” investigation that US military personnel did nothing wrong in an August airstrike in Kabul which killed ten civilians and zero combatants. “An independent Pentagon…

LIVE SHOW on Saturday, November 13th at 1 PM EST On this show, we speak with Michael Nagler, founder and president of the Metta Center for Nonviolence in Petaluma, California.  We are speaking about the challenges of nonviolence and the…

LIVE SHOW on Friday, November 19th at 1 PM EST On this show, we speak Professor Karl Grossman, author, TV program host and full professor of journalism at the State University of New York/College at Old Westbury. For 30 years, he has…

The UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow October 31st thru November 12th may be the most significant climate conference of all time. The fate of the planet is on the line. Prior to that august event, hundreds of peer-reviewed…

LIVE SHOW on Sunday, November 7th at 1 PM EST On this show, we speak with Susan Karbiner, and Janie Lynch, Chair and Co-Chair of the Long Island Poor People’s Campaign – A National Call for Moral Revival.  Today we…

 POEM     How do I reconcile you sweet slice of juicy pineapple pampered and protected from the Northern frost happily settled in a crystal cradle shared by raspberries blackberries and papaya deploying perfumes seducing the palates of executives conferring…

Why is it controversial to spend on social programs but not the Pentagon? Or to subsidize the poor but not the rich? By Sister Karen M. Donahue Right now, the United States is locked in a contentious debate over the Build…

The U.S. wars lost in Iraq and Afghanistan showed imperial overreach beyond what even 20 years of war could manage. That the defeats were drawn out for so many years shows that domestic politics and the funding of the domestic…