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Colombian President Petro Makes Historic White House Visit After Diplomatic Rift with Trump

Colombian President Gustavo Petro traveled to the United States this week for a highly anticipated meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House, marking a thaw in relations after a year of public clashes between the two leaders.…

Supporting Action in a Time That Demands It

We are living in a moment that demands action. Many people feel it viscerally: something is wrong, old structures are failing, and silence is no longer acceptable. Across communities, people are mobilizing—marching, organizing, donating, speaking out. The desire to act…

Arab Lives Matter Rally in Tel Aviv: Thousands Demand End to Violence and State Inaction

January 31, 2026 – Thousands of demonstrators — Arabs and Jewish allies — marched through central Tel Aviv Saturday night in a powerful “Arab Lives Matter: STOP the Violence” rally calling for urgent action to halt the surge in violent…

Declaration of January 12: Let Us Create a Movement of World Citizens to Bring the World “Back From the Brink”

The following call was issued on Jan. 25, 2026 by panelists who addressed the Jan. 12, 2026 EIR Emergency Roundtable, “It’s Worse Than You Think: The Strategic Implications of the Attack on Venezuela and How to Bring the World Back…

Sudan’s Civil War Is The Normalization Of Atrocity

What distinguishes Sudan’s catastrophe—stretching from earlier civil wars through Darfur and into the present conflict between rival military powers—is not only the scale of suffering, but the way violence has become structural, embedded in the very organization of political power.…

Joint Statement by Progressive Forces Calling for the Immediate Release of the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

We, the undersigned organizations and movements committed to social justice, democracy, and international law, grounded in anti-imperialist struggle and peoples’ sovereignty, unite in unequivocal condemnation of the recent kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro, the constitutionally recognized President of Venezuela, by armed…

Board of Peace: Another Of Trump’s Quixotic Imperial Designs

Trump’s proposed “Board of Peace” built around heads of state, including Russia, is structurally ill-suited to end the Israel–Hamas war and to govern postwar Gaza in any sustainable way At a press conference at the World Economic Forum in Davos,…

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Courage of Universality

To speak seriously of Martin Luther King Jr. today is already to enter into conflict with the form in which he is publicly remembered. King survives as a moral icon precisely because his thought has been stripped of its antagonism.…

Some Paratroopers Ordered to Minneapolis Might Just Say “Sir, No Sir!”

Air Force veteran has informed them for 18 months they can refuse illegal orders Some 1,500 paratroopers from the Army’s 11th Airborne Division at Fort Wainwright are on standby for immediate deployment to Minneapolis. Because of Veterans For Peace member…

Why Nicaragua is not Washington’s next war – Yet

Since the US invasion of Venezuela on January 3rd and the abduction of President Nicolás Maduro, Nicaragua’s opposition figures – who enthusiastically identified with their confederates in Venezuela – have hoped that regime-change efforts in Caracas would encourage Washington to…

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