By David Swanson
If an alien invader with a face were attacking the earth, the difficulties that governments have getting populations to support wars on other humans would be multiplied a thousand fold.  The most common response to officials calling some petty foreign despot "a new Hitler" would shift from "yeah, right" to "who cares?" The people of the world would unite in common defense against the hostile alien.

Living with the looming effects of climate change is like living in a mountainside home lying directly in the path of thousands of tons of snow on the mountain slopes above.

Scientists from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have issued the stark warning that unless rapid and sustained cuts to global carbon emissions are initiated without delay we will inevitably face a future bringing catastrophic climate change that will change civilisation as we know it.

A member of the Avaaz.org campaigning team was detained and interrogated by two high ranking Egyptian military officials as he attempted to deliver a million signature-strong petition to Grand Mufti Allam, calling on Egypt to stop the biggest mass execution in Egypt's history.

By David Swanson
"Secretary Kerry? It's Ukraine on the phone asking about liberation again. Have you been able to get them a reference letter yet from Libya or Iraq or Afghanistan? How about Vietnam? Panama? Grenada? Kosovo maybe? Ukraine says Syria says you have a reference letter in the works from Kosovo. No? Huh. They said they'd accept one from Korea or the Dominican Republic or Iran. No? Guatemala? The Philippines? Cuba? Congo? How about Haiti? They say you promised them a glowing reference from Haiti. Oh. They did? No, I am not laughing, Sir. What about East Timor? Oh? Oh! Sir, you're going to liberate the what out of them? Yes sir, I think you'd better tell them yourself."  Some nations the United States should probably not liberate -- except perhaps the 175 nations which could be liberated from the presence of U.S. soldiers.  But one nation I would make an exception for, and that is the nation of Hawai'i.

In a wide ranging interview broadcast today on 'The Last Word with Matt Cooper', recorded ahead of his historic state visit to the UK, President Michael D Higgins makes personal revelations about his own relations with Britain. He reveals that he’s a Chelsea fan, a properly trained silver service waiter and speaks movingly about his twin sisters who had to emigrate to the UK in the late 1950's.

A new global coalition of human rights organizations launched in Brussels says world leaders must commit to keeping invasive surveillance systems and technologies out of the hands of dictators and oppressive regimes.

With Palestinian Prisoners' Day approaching on 17 April, Addameer and the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) are calling on people of conscience worldwide to take action in solidarity with Palestinian political prisoners.

By David Swanson
"The notion of a 'humanitarian war' would have rang in the ears of the drafters of the UN Charter as nothing short of Hitlerian, because it was precisely the justification used by Hitler himself for the invasion of Poland just six years earlier." –Michael Mandel 
Fifteen years ago, NATO was bombing Yugoslavia.  This may be difficult for people to grasp who believe the Noah movie is historical fiction, but: What your government told you about the bombing of Kosovo was false. And it matters.

Following the shooting dead of a 14-year-old Palestinian youth by Israeli security forces and Amnesty International's call on the US to suspend all transfers of munitions, weapons and other equipment to Israel, the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation has launched an online petition to urge the House and Senate Appropriations Committees to hold Israel accountable for misusing U.S. weapons to commit human rights abuses against Palestinians in violation of U.S. laws. 

Nobody on the planet will be unaffected by climate change and scientists have warned that it threatens global food stocks and production, will force people from their homes and could lead to war.