By Michael Drohan On Saturday, April 7, 2018 a gas attack on the city of Douma in Syria, was reported. Douma is a suburb of Damascus formerly controlled by two jihadist factions, […]
Support HR 4391 & the Release of Ahed Tamimi
(Photo Caption: Photo provided by Kate Daher) By Kate Daher On April 11, Pittsburgh Jewish Voice for Peace co-founder, Dani Klein, artist and professor Hyla Willis, Bret Grote from the Abolitionist Law Center, […]
Off Our Rockers and Into the Streets
By Bette McDevitt You may have seen us over the years. Raging Grannies, wearing hats salvaged from attics, shiny beads reminiscent of Mardi Gras, and buttons with slogans that catalog past causes […]
Honduras: Bloodshed and Impunity Continues, Green-lighted by Trump Administration
(Photo Caption: A protestor holds up a banner demanding justice for Berta Cáceres on the 2nd anniversary of her death. (Photo: The Guardian) By Dan Beeton “It’s past time to cut security aid […]
Israel as Pharaoh: A Passover Reflection
By Ken Boas Has Israel, the promised land for so many Jews all over the world, become a land of oppression and cruelty? Have the Palestinians become the people now waiting, after […]
The Korean War: Convenient Forgetting
By Michael Drohan Review of Book: The Korean War by Bruce Cumings, 2010 The Korean War is often referred to as “the forgotten war,” a name which was first used in an […]
State Sanctioned Repression Grows in Latin America
By Joyce Rothermel Sometimes we can get so caught up in what is happening here in the US that we give little attention to what is happening south of the border. Let’s […]
Some Sort of Justice
By Emily Deferrari At midnight the bells began. A cacophony of Chinese wind chimes, and hand held bells, and sleigh bells, Sunday morning church bells, the sound of Eastern gongs, large bells […]
Jerusalem’s Recent History
By Emily Deferrari Some brief and relatively recent history: From the 7th into the 20th century, Jerusalem was administratively linked to Constantinople, the capital of the Turkish Empire. In 1917, during the […]
Prague Writers Festival, 2017: American on the Hot Seat
By Mike Schneider (Photo by: Mike Schneider) My friend Jan and I were in Prague as tourists in November, during the Prague Writers’ Festival (PWF). While Prague’s ancient culture and stunning beauty […]
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