What is the Debt Ceiling?

By Wim Laven, ZNet

The debt ceiling is proof that war is not working. We cannot afford it. We have the capacity for complex problem solving, lets finally prove it.

Give Peace a Chance

By Nan Levinson, Tom Dispatch

You work for peace because “it’s a moral responsibility to oppose the war machine. And as long as there’s a chance and you’re working at what has the best chance of succeeding, you have to do it.” It’s as simple — and as bedeviling — as that. In other words, we have to give peace a chance.

What Price “Defense”? (How about we fund climate change defense, instead?)

By William D. Hartung, Tom Dispatch

Overspending on the military will only dig humanity deeper into a hole that will be ever more difficult to get out of in the relatively short time available to us.

Paying for an Overheating Earth

By Priti Gulati Cox, Stan Cox, TomDispatch

Could the perseverance and courage of people like Paracha, Abd el-Fattah, and the activists for climate justice and human rights — both those who attended the conference at Sharm el Sheik and countless others around the world — make it possible someday to drop the “Yet” and say simply, “We Have Not Been Defeated”?

The armed lifeboat

By Nick Buxton, Transnational Institute

Militarised adaptation to climate breakdown is akin, as US journalist Christian Parenti argues, to the politics of the ‘armed lifeboat’ that seeks to secure the wealth of the few while training guns on everyone else.

The Truth-Teller: From the Pentagon Papers to the Doomsday Machine

By Daniel Ellsberg, Great Transition Initiative

My experience with the Pentagon Papers showed that an act of truth-telling, of exposing the realities about which the public had been misled, can indeed help end an unnecessary, deadly conflict. This example is a lesson applicable to both the nuclear and climate crises we face.