Empower youth to build peace, not fight endless wars
By responding to the realities of young people, the Youth, Peace and Security Act of 2020 will lessen the need for expensive and burdensome militarized solutions.
By responding to the realities of young people, the Youth, Peace and Security Act of 2020 will lessen the need for expensive and burdensome militarized solutions.
Critics of multilateralism argue force will always shape world affairs. It is a small step to see empires as a means to stability.
The United Nations has done a great deal of good in its 75 years. But it has not abolished war, nor has it eliminated eternal arms races between major powers.
Advocates arguing against structural racism and police violence must pressure Smith to address the 1033 program in the bill he writes, and to keep it in the final bill.
What has been the actual influence of the veterans now in Congress on this country’s war policy? For the twenty-first century, remarkably enough, the simple answer is: not much.
The imperial power that we veterans fought for abroad is the same one some of us are now struggling against at home and the two couldn’t be more intimately linked.
H.R. McMaster’s critique of restraint falls short and he doesn’t offer an alternative to the militarism that has dominated U.S. foreign policy.
In 1967, Dr. King warned that “a nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”