NLG and IADL statements condemning the 2026 attack on Iran

The National Lawyers Guild joins the International Association of Democratic Lawyers in condemning the joint U.S.-Israeli illegal aggression on Iran

The National Lawyers Guild joins the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) in condemning in the strongest terms the joint attack by the United States and Israel on the Islamic Republic of Iran, launched on the morning of Saturday, February 28, 2026, amid the holy month of Ramadan. 

These attacks constitute another example of the crime of aggression, in blatant violation of article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter and the principles of sovereignty, territorial integrity of states, good neighborliness and the peaceful settlement of disputes. International law clearly prohibits both the use of force and the threat to use force against the territorial integrity of any state, and it is also clear that the United States and Israel have deep disregard and contempt for these principles. These attacks further violate the U.S. Constitution. The U.S. president acted unilaterally and lawlessly — without congressional authorization and absent any imminent threat to the U.S. However, it is important to point out the failure and unwillingness of the U.S. Congress to act to respond to Trump’s other unauthorized hostilities in Iran or anywhere. As many have also pointed out there are over 50 members of Congress who have investments in defense companies and directly profit from these illegal wars. 

Neither the U.S. nor Israel has attempted to hide the fact that this aggression is being carried out to facilitate a regime change that they would find amenable to their goals of total domination of the entire region of West Asia militarily, economically and politically, and to deprive the Palestinian people under occupation and facing an ongoing genocide of support for their capacity to resist and free themselves of this unlawful occupation. We are reminded of the 12-day war of June 2025, another illegal aggression perpetrated by the same parties against Iran, which the NLG and IADL also strongly condemned. The persistent lack of accountability or any meaningful consequences for those responsible has not merely enabled further warmongering and destruction; it has entrenched a culture of impunity that effectively amounts to complicity.

Once again, we note that purported negotiations that claimed to seek a peaceful resolution or to address nuclear development were used as a sham in an attempt to lower Iranian defenses, as we have seen before in the context of the invasion of Iraq. Israeli officials have openly stated that they have planned this attack over months and weeks, spanning a larger period of time than any of the negotiation rounds. Such aggression not only underlines the bad faith of the United States and Israel but also discourages nations from participating in peace talks or negotiations, when it has been made clear that these states view such negotiations only as a way to pass time until a new aggression is launched. 

This aggression follows by less than two months the U.S. attack on Venezuela and the unlawful abduction of its president and first lady, and comes amid the ongoing war threats and oil blockade imposed on Cuba. This complete disregard for the process of negotiations only encourages nuclear proliferation around the world; we further note that the United States holds the world’s largest supply of nuclear weapons and is the only state to have used them. Further, Israel is an undeclared nuclear power that routinely makes threats based on its nuclear weapons capacity. 

We note that Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, is still the subject of an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity, while pursuing constant war and aggression against the Palestinian people targeted for genocide, Lebanon, Syria, and now, once again, Iran. The aggression is the continuation of the illegal aggression launched last year as well as a continuation of a sustained and deliberate campaign of hostile acts spanning more than 46 years – including sanctions designed to destroy the Iranian economy, coordinated cyber-warfare operations, targeted assassinations and systematic acts of sabotage. 

We urge all states to provide all necessary assistance, consistent with their obligations under international law, to the Islamic Republic of Iran, Palestine, and other nations subjected to unlawful aggression by the United States and Israel,  and to condemn their  serious violations of international law, including genocide. We underline that this aggression is a threat not only to all of the peoples and nations of the West Asian region but to the future of multilateralism, international law, and the territorial integrity of states. Iran, a sovereign nation, has the clear and legitimate right to defend itself against this unlawful aggression. We urge all states to immediately implement an arms embargo on Israel and the U.S., withdraw their ambassadors, and pursue legal actions to hold their military and political officials accountable. 

We cannot rely solely on states or international institutions to end this aggression. We urge all supporters of justice, sovereignty, peace, and international law to participate in mass demonstrations and actions against the aggression on Iran, and to mobilize popular pressure to bring the aggression to an end. We urge all legal organizations, lawyers and human rights organizations to utilize domestic and international systems to hold Israeli and U.S. officials and soldiers accountable for their unlawful aggression against Iran and their acts of genocide in Palestine, as well as to support and defend organizers and social movements against state repression for their work to end war and genocide. 

The Military Law Taskforce (MLT) of the National Lawyers Guild reminds U.S. armed service members that they have the right and the duty to resist and refuse illegal orders. The MLTF pledges to support those who do so, and support service members who protest or stand against this disastrous war.

Originally posted, on February 28th, at:  nlgmltf.org/military-law/2026/mltf-condemns-unprovoked-us-israeli-attack-on-iran/ ; see also:  nlgmltf.org/military-law/2025/faq-on-refusing-illegal-orders/

MLTF Condemns Unprovoked US/Israeli Attack On Iran

The MILITARY LAW TASK FORCE of the NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD categorically condemns the unprovoked US/Israeli attack on Iran.  This is a grotesque violation of international law and the U.S. Constitution. 

Iran is a sovereign nation and a member of the United Nations as is the United States.  The UN Charter is a treaty which is the “supreme law of the land” under Article VI of the US Constitution. Article 2(4) of the  UN Charter states, “All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.”

The aggression here is a crime under international law and is committed when, as here, a country attacks another that is not threatening it and is not carried out in self-defense against an attack.

There can be no justification for the attack if, as President Trump proclaimed, Iran’s nuclear weapons program was “obliterated” in another illegal act just over six months ago.

We recall that, for the past two decades or more, Netanyahu has claimed that Iran was within weeks of having a nuclear weapon. Those claims were false, however, even if true, a resolution was being negotiated when the current assault occurred.

We remind U.S. armed service members that they have the right and the duty to resist and refuse illegal orders. We pledge our full support to those who do so, and to service members who protest or stand against this disastrous war.

See also:

IADL condemns the joint U.S.-Israeli illegal aggression on Iran

MLTF FAQ on Refusing Illegal Orders

Originally posted, on February 28th, at:  iadllaw.org/2026/02/iadl-condemns-the-joint-u-s-israeli-illegal-aggression-on-iran/

IADL condemns the joint U.S.-Israeli illegal aggression on Iran

The International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) condemns in the strongest terms the joint attack by the United States and Israel on the Islamic Republic of Iran, launched on the morning of Saturday, February 28, 2026, amid the holy month of Ramadan. These attacks constitute another example of the crime of aggression, in blatant violation of article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter and the principles of sovereignty, territorial integrity of states, good neighborliness and the peaceful settlement of disputes. International law clearly prohibits both the use of force and the threat to use force against the territorial integrity of any state, and it is also clear that the United States and Israel have deep disregard and contempt for these principles.

Neither the U.S. nor Israel has even attempted to hide the fact that this aggression is being carried out to facilitate a regime change that they would find amenable to their goals of total domination of the entire region of West Asia militarily, economically and politically, and to deprive the Palestinian people under occupation and facing an ongoing genocide of support for their capacity to resist and free themselves of this unlawful occupation. We reiterate our statements of 18 June 2025 and 23 June 2025, issued during the 12-day war of 2025, another illegal aggression perpetrated by the same parties against Iran. The persistent lack of accountability or any meaningful consequences for those responsible has not merely enabled further warmongering and destruction; it has entrenched a culture of impunity that effectively amounts to complicity.

Once again, we note that purported negotiations that claimed to seek a peaceful resolution or to address nuclear development were used as a sham in an attempt to lower Iranian defenses, as we have seen before in the context of the invasion of Iraq. Israeli officials have openly stated that they have planned this attack over months and weeks, spanning a larger period of time than any of the negotiation rounds. Such aggression not only underlines the bad faith of the United States and Israel but also discourages nations from participating in peace talks or negotiations, when it has been made clear that these states view such negotiations only as a way to pass time until a new aggression is launched. This aggression follows by less than two months the U.S. attack on Venezuela and the unlawful abduction of its president and first lady, and comes amid the ongoing war threats and oil blockade imposed on Cuba. This complete disregard for the process of negotiations only encourages nuclear proliferation around the world; we further note that the United States holds the world’s largest supply of nuclear weapons and is the only state to have used them. Further, Israel is an undeclared nuclear power that routinely makes threats based on its nuclear weapons capacity. 

In this context, we must again note the complicity of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which is not acting as a neutral party but instead to provide pretexts for those engaged in illegal acts of war and aggression. In a near-repeat of the events of 13 June 2025, when the IAEA issued a resolution against Iran in disregard of all available evidence only hours before the Israeli bombing began, on 27 February 2026, the IAEA issued a statement claiming that it was “unable to verify” whether Iran was continuing heavy enrichment, pointing out what it claimed to be an underground facility in Isfahan, and demanding Iran allow its inspectors to enter closed, secure facilities. Once again, the IAEA’s disturbing role in the U.S.-Israeli aggression on Iran betrays the stated function of the agency in the interests of an undeclared nuclear power and the only country in the world to have used nuclear weapons in war.

We note that Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, is still the subject of an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity, while pursuing constant war and aggression against the Palestinian people targeted for genocide, Lebanon, Syria, and now, once again, Iran. The aggression launched today is the continuation of the illegal aggression launched last year as well as a continuation of a sustained and deliberate campaign of hostile acts spanning more than 46 years – including sanctions designed to destroy the Iranian economy, coordinated cyber-warfare operations, targeted assassinations and systematic acts of sabotage. 

We urge all states to provide all necessary assistance, consistent with their obligations under international law, to the Islamic Republic of Iran, Palestine, and other nations subjected to unlawful aggression by the United States and Israel, as well as to serious violations of international law, including genocide. We underline that this aggression is a threat not only to all of the peoples and nations of the West Asian region but to the future of multilateralism, international law, and the territorial integrity of states. Iran, a sovereign nation, has the clear and legitimate right to defend itself against this unlawful aggression. We urge all states to immediately implement an arms embargo on Israel and the U.S., withdraw their ambassadors, and pursue legal actions to hold their military and political officials accountable. 

We cannot rely solely on states or international institutions to end this aggression. We urge all supporters of justice, sovereignty, peace, and international law to participate in mass demonstrations and actions against the aggression on Iran, and to mobilize popular pressure to bring the aggression to an end. We urge all legal organizations, lawyers and human rights organizations to utilize domestic and international systems to hold Israeli and U.S. officials and soldiers accountable for their unlawful aggression against Iran and their acts of genocide in Palestine, as well as to support and defend organizers and social movements against state repression for their work to end war and genocide. 

See also: 

iadllaw.org/2026/02/the-international-association-of-democratic-lawyers-condemns-the-u-s-onslaught-against-cuba-and-its-oil-supply/

iadllaw.org/2026/01/iadl-condemns-us-imperialist-aggression-against-venezuela/

iadllaw.org/2026/01/iadl-condemns-illegal-u-s-aggression-against-venezuela-statement-of-the-bolivarian-republic-of-venezuela/

iadllaw.org/2025/09/joint-statement-calling-for-the-relocation-of-the-un-headquarters-away-from-the-united-states/

GPUS: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki + some links

Upcoming events are listed at:  durhamspark.blogspot.com/2025/08/days-of-rage-2025-666-days-of-war-and.html and durhamspark.blogspot.com/2025/07/deep-river-riverkeeper-founded-upcoming.html (mostly local and environmental events; I might add to it).  For some upcoming anniversaries see:  durhamspark.blogspot.com/2024/08/summer-came-in-with-buzz-and-whirr-goes.html  I noted even more links to post, but didn't get to it sooner.

[Online August 17th:  icssmarx.org/80-years-after-the-us-bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-are-we-on-the-verge-of-another-nuclear-war-gerry-condon-august-17-2025-1030-am-pacific-time/ ]

[Sadako Peace Day 2025:  www.wagingpeace.org/31st-annual-sadako-peace-day ]/

NPR and the BBC had stories on the 80th anniversary, and explicitly stated that the US used nuclear weapons against Japanese cities (with input from the UK, under the Quebec Agreement? –  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki ?), and they gave seemingly high casualty estimates, but it still feels like they downplayed it.  A BBC reporter in Hiroshima around August 6th even said something like, in an era of receding "globalization" and --,  Hiroshima's call for nuclear abolition and peace basically appears anachronistic and -- , and the media noted that Japan is 'protected' by the USA's nuclear umbrella.  Maybe I missed further coverage.  Regarding Nagasaki, a BBC headline early this morning noted that 'many analysts' think that the nuclear bombings "hastened the end of the Second World War."  This Week in People's History couldn't say that the bombings didn't bring WWII to an end, and doesn't mention the USSR at all:  portside.org/2025-08-04/week-peoples-history-aug-6-12-2025

[Normalizing "Western" nuclear warfare, in the near future?  The evening of August 14th a BBC headline mentioned Japan's commemoration of its August 15, 1945 surrender, following the atomic bombings (no mention of the role of the USSR and Mongolia), which is true, but gives the impression that the surrender happened (only?) because Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed.]

[A very Russophobic (Tsarist Russia allegedly committed serious crimes against native people back in the 19th century or earlier, and the US and other colonial powers have done nothiing?), pro-Zelensky, anti-Trump, indigenous (?) woman from Stand Up Alaska (?) was interviewed on the BBC on the 15th.  And then a UN expert on "indigenous" issues and a Crimean Tartar [Tatar], even.  Israel claims to be an indigenous country.  About two days ago the BBC 'explained' how the Ukraine War began in 2014 [and again on the 15th!] and NPR's Morning Edition (and more??) has been even heavier on Ukraine discussion for around a week (and with very little on any other ongoing war).  NPR has an entire reporting team in Alaska.  A cold and isolated place for a meeting?  Ukrainians living in western Ukraine need to be very careful not to go against Zelensky or the Azov types...  Give  Alaska back to Russia, someone said.  Then Russia could bother the Canadian imperialists too.  The hidden history of US-Russia-UK relations – I read a claim that Tsarist Russia sold Alaska to the USA in th 19th century to cause problems for the British in western Canada.  And Russia threatened to get involved if the UK and France intervened in our Civil War on the side of the CSA.]  [What about the issue of NATO, not territory?  They claim that Russia is fighting for empire, and won't be able to defeat Ukraine.  NPR had something on the morning of the 15th about the summit meeting being one-sided, as if the US isn't a party to the conflict, as in the Middle East.]

Reminiscent of the conquest of Mexico/Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City), even the rain afterward, August 13th or 21st in 1521; the firebombing of cities in Europe and Asia before the nuclear bombings, and the levelling of Gaza today (or:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising in the spring of 1943??  The WWII Siege of Leningrad?)?

[ www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/11/hiroshima-lives-on-in-gaza/ ]

[ www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/01/similarities-between-hitlers-handling-of-the-warsaw-ghetto-and-how-netanyahu-is-handling-gaza-are-disturbing/ ]

If I'm not mistaken, the flash from a one megaton nuclear explosion (a relatively small nuclear weapon ) relatively far away in downtown Raleigh would be enough to set parts of Durham on fire and at least injure anyone unlucky enough to be outside, ignoring any other effects.  Weather conditions would probably influence the amount of damage and the fallout would probably blow away from here.  There are war industries in RTP and the huge military base not far south in Fayetteville (the government of North Carolina values military spending).  Or the other side could just aim for population centers, as happened in WWII [(military sites were targeted in Hiroshima and probably also in Nagasaki, but the cities weren't going to be spared, and strategic nuclear weapons have much more yield or power today)].  The weapons are still there and ready to go on a hair trigger, but people mostly stopped protesting about them after the 80's.  We might be fortunate if the weapons are too old and don't work anymore, but Obama got to work on fixing that problem, for something like one trillion dollars.  The nuclear personnel have also had some scandals and lost or dropped nuclear weapons, including in the Carolinas and I think Georgia, and in the UK, Spain, etc.   

See also:  

An amazing hidden story from the history of science and another blow for NASA and Co., if true:  worldbeyondwar.org/how-the-military-industrial-complex-chose-what-killed-the-dinosaurs/  

Last week (?) NPR's evening Fresh Air program interviewed the author of an article claiming that Elon Musk, apparently named for a benevolent (?) Martian dictator in a sci-fi novel, has derailed NASA and American ideals in outer space – but wasn't NASA put on this neoliberal course under Obama or earlier, in which NASA no longer designs and operates crewed rockets, or at least not rockets from the ground?  And I thought that NASA was supposed to have been aiming for in-person human exploration of Mars for decades, but now the US is spending a huge amount to have a second race to the Moon, over some amount of frozen water.  It's not like they want to to go back to the Moon to do scientific research, such as astronomy free from the Earth's atmosphere and interference from human activity, or science isn't what they put first in the media, and wouldn't going to a near-Earth asteroid be better preparation for a mission to another planet?  On the other hand, they would probably want to gift it to a corporation for mining.  Even if there is lunar water ice, they would still have to get it into orbit if they want to use it beyond the Moon.  I think the author was wrong on some of the reasons Mars is inhospitable to life, though.  Maybe the nearest extraterrestrial life is in the clouds of Venus and humans should go there next, not Mars (assuming that the Apollo landings weren't a hoax; NASA is having a lot of trouble repeating the 20th century feat with 2025 technology).   The Congress ruled out cooperating with Russia and/or China in space to save money and share know-how (during the Obama administration?), though astronauts could only get to and from the ISS on Russian rockets for a long time after the Space Shuttle had to be retired. 

diario-octubre.com/2025/07/27/estados-unidos-va-a-despedir-a-casi-4-000-trabajadores-de-la-nasa/ (the image is from Babylon 5)

futurism.com/nasa-future-meltdown

Air pollution from SpaceX's Starlink satellites being retired and de-orbited:  spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=05&month=08&year=2025

[ bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/nuclear-reactor-moon-nasa/ ]

[ mpr21.info/trump-quiere-construir-un-reactor-nuclear-en-la-luna-para-imitar-a-rusia-y-china/ ]

[? -- portside.org/2025-08-10/we-dont-need-nuclear-reactors-moon ]

worldbeyondwar.org/no-nuking-cities-did-not-save-lives/

The role of mokusatsu in August 1945:  dgardner.substack.com/p/mokusatsu-and-the-atomic-bomb

[Andrew Cockburn:  www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n22/andrew-cockburn/big-six-v.-little-boy ]

[ www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n13/andrew-cockburn/why-didn-t-you-tell-me ]

[ www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n09/andrew-cockburn/diary ]

"80 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" – www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/07/esqy-a07.html

On Hiroshima and Nagasaki:  cpcml.ca/Tmlm2025/TS5523.HTM

[The new ML Research Group website:  mlrg.online/history/remembering-why-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-were-nuclear-bombed-to-obliteration/ ]

[ woodsmokeblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/29/socialist-albania-in-retrospect/ or mlrg.online/history/albania-in-retrospect/ ]

[ mlrg.online/about-us/ ]

[ mlrg.online/william-b-bland/ ]

[ www.erythrospress.com/bookstore/product/selected-works-of-w-b-bland-volume-1-the-china-report/ ]

diario-octubre.com/2025/08/07/hiroshima-80-anos-despues-supervivientes-del-infierno-nuclear-recuerdan-la-tragedia/

diario-octubre.com/2025/08/06/rememoran-en-japon-80-anos-de-bombardeo-atomico-y-omiten-a-autor/

diario-octubre.com/2025/08/08/ee-uu-unico-en-usar-bombas-atomicas-contra-civiles/

[ mpr21.info/de-hiroshima-a-la-actualidad-la-carrera-armamentista-la-ha-promovido-el-imperialismo-estadounidense/ ]

On the "black rain" after the bombings – www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/c08202/

On Nihon Hidankyou:  www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/g02447/

Nihon Hidankyou's history:  www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/l00348/nihon-hidankyo-and-the-global-nuclear-disarmament-movement-a-timeline.html

A WWII book:  www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/c15202/

doomsdaymachines.net/p/the-battlefield-is-everywhere  

doomsdaymachines.net/p/nuclear-families

Moe [with] plutonium:  doomsdaymachines.net/p/the-meme-ification-of-the-demon-core

[A different view on the bombings:  socraticgadfly.substack.com/p/the-80th-anniversary-of-hiroshima

socraticgadfly.blogspot.com/2025/08/did-nagasaki-lead-to-korean-division.html ]

diario-octubre.com/2025/07/31/pionyang-acusa-a-washington-y-seoul-de-prepararse-para-una-guerra-nuclear/

[ www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/04/president-reagans-advice-to-mr-trump-on-nuclear-threats-to-russia/ ]

[Gaza as nuclear holocaust; Sam Husseini was arrested a few years ago in Finland over a question on non-proliferation:  husseini.substack.com/p/is-gaza-a-nuclear-holocaust ]

[ husseini.substack.com/p/hiroshima-to-gaza-video-is-israel ]

[ www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/04/the-strategic-nightmare-that-is-national-missile-defense/ ]

[ www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/04/hiroshima-nagasaki-and-genocide/ ]

[ www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/07/the-treaty-meant-to-control-nuclear-risks-is-under-strain-80-years-after-the-us-bombings-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki/ ]

[ www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/04/eighty-years-of-nuclear-terror/ ]

A US Navy nuclear submarine officer resigned in protest of the crimes being carried out in Gaza:  diario-octubre.com/2025/08/03/oficial-de-eeuu-renuncia-por-el-genocidio-en-gaza/

Hospitality in Iran:  www.counterpunch.org/2025/07/06/what-if-the-axis-of-evil-served-you-watermelon/

diario-octubre.com/2025/07/31/venezuela-y-estados-unidos-han-mejorado-las-relaciones/

spoilsofwar.substack.com/p/no-the-chinese-will-not-invade-taiwan

Torture by the US [and the ROK] during the Vietnam War:  www.nefariousrussians.com/p/from-torture-to-telecommunication  [Graphic and disturbing, if true.]

Pesticides and agriculture:  www.nefariousrussians.com/p/to-grow-food-and-to-kill-en-masse\

Bank ban:  worldbeyondwar.org/aus-bank-closed-our-accounts-because-id-visited-cuba-six-months-ago/ 

[The state of the "ceasefire" in Lebanon:  diario-octubre.com/2025/08/11/continuos-ataques-de-artilleria-y-drones-sionistas-contra-el-sur-del-libano/ ]

[In the West Bank:  diario-octubre.com/2025/08/11/incursiones-sionistas-en-cisjordania-ataques-de-colonos-a-aldeas-en-hebron-y-ramallah/

[A Georges Ibrahim Abdullah interview:  diario-octubre.com/2025/08/11/georges-abdallah-en-una-entrevista-con-al-mayadeen-la-resistencia-tiene-como-principal-interes-construir-el-estado-libanes/ 

[ www.palestinechronicle.com/georges-abdallahs-message-to-gaza-palestine-chronicle-exclusive/ ]

[NPR and Gaza:  www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/06/as-gaza-starved-nprs-coverage-expanded-but-didnt-get-any-better/ ]

the307.substack.com/p/in-the-west-anti-genocide-activists

the307.substack.com/p/a-response-to-the-new-bookownedand ?

the307.substack.com/p/britains-zionist-police-state-is

nypost.com/2025/05/26/world-news/putins-helicopter-came-under-fire-from-ukrainian-drones-during-kursk-visit-kremlin-admits/

karlof1.substack.com/p/maria-zakharova-moldova-being-groomed

the307.substack.com/p/in-another-act-of-aggression-israel

responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-turkey/ 

the307.substack.com/p/in-the-modern-day-holocaust-israel

the307.substack.com/p/the-wall-street-journal-is-functioning

the307.substack.com/p/the-wall-street-journal-publishes

www.dropsitenews.com/p/video-report-israel-imposes-no-build-zone-southern-lebanon

thefloutist.substack.com/p/zionist-terrorism-in-the-west-bank

From the NYT:  portside.org/2025-07-17/im-genocide-scholar-i-know-it-when-i-see-it

www.declassifieduk.org/how-government-used-media-to-claim-iran-link-to-palestine-action/

www.mintpressnews.com/palestine-action-uk-terror-ban-interviews/290287/

diario-octubre.com/2025/06/17/el-control-informacional-de-la-union-europea/

diario-octubre.com/2025/06/17/apagon-mediatico-en-israel-total-blockade-of-transmissions-during-irani-defensive/

The UK in Cyprus:  mronline.org/2025/06/17/the-urgency-of-abolishing-britains-colonial-bases-in-cyprus/  August 8th there was a claim that the UK aircraft flying out of Cyprus are only helping Israel look for the detained Israelis in Gaza. 

www.dropsitenews.com/p/iran-casualty-counts-us-funded-groups

www.kitklarenberg.com/p/usaid-leaks-censorship-as-regime

www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-strikes-damascus-syria-sweida-druze-bedouin

www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-humanitarian-foundation-khan-younis-starvation-gas-stampede-israel-palestine

www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-bombs-gaza-school-us-missile-displaced

www.dropsitenews.com/p/israeli-starvation-campaign-gaza-famine-aid-massacres

On AOC and Gaza – the307.substack.com/p/aoc-is-an-establishment-fraud 

caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/07/20/aoc-is-a-genocidal-con-artist/

www.un-diplomatic.com/p/aoc-misunderstands-the-offense-defense

[ www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/12/the-new-york-times-continues-to-give-netanyahu-the-benefit-of-the-doubt/ ]

thefloutist.substack.com/p/darkness-descending

ahmadibsais.substack.com/p/where-the-breadline-ends-in-blood

diario-octubre.com/2025/08/04/rabino-israeli-cada-nino-de-gaza-deberia-morir-de-hambre/

diario-octubre.com/2025/08/08/israel-destruyo-el-70-por-ciento-del-sistema-de-salud-en-gaza/

diario-octubre.com/2025/08/08/israel-aprueba-la-ocupacion-de-gaza/

diario-octubre.com/2025/08/08/la-union-europea-prepara-la-vigilancia-generalizada-de-los-mensajes-privados/

diario-octubre.com/2025/08/07/la-cia-utilizo-sitios-web-para-comunicarse-con-sus-redes-de-espionaje/

chrishedges.substack.com/p/abolishing-the-first-amendment

www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=15085

www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=15113

[On Duke University:  www.newsobserver.com/opinion/article311678189.html

www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/article311678189.html

www.heraldsun.com/opinion/article311678189.html ?]

hammerandhope.org/article/georgetown-researcher-ICE

www.kitklarenberg.com/p/how-zionists-control-australias-media

Greta Thunberg, cancelled? – diario-octubre.com/2025/08/06/greta-thunberg-activista-cancelada/

The FBI goes to New Zealand:  www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/08/etdz-a08.html

"New exposures of far-right activities in Canada’s military and beyond" – www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/07/uuiw-a07.html

consortiumnews.com/2025/08/01/the-chris-hedges-report-this-is-not-a-drill/

chrishedges.substack.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump-and

jonathancook.substack.com/p/on-gaza-the-goal-is-to-confuse-us

[ www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/12/trumps-war-on-immigrants-is-a-trojan-horse-to-normalize-domestic-use-of-the-military/ ]

[ www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/01/no-peace-at-the-u-s-institute-of-peace/ ]

[ neuburger.substack.com/p/our-lawless-elites 

neuburger.substack.com/p/a-clear-epstein-backgrounder-and ]

diario-octubre.com/2025/07/27/los-nombres-y-apellidos-del-libro-negro-de-epstein-y-4/

www.normalisland.co.uk/p/prison-cameras-went-down-while-ghislaine

www.normalisland.co.uk/p/epstein-islanders-vote-to-block-release

www.kenklippenstein.com/p/epstein-wont-die  

Michael Tracey downplays the Epstein case.

www.mtracey.net/p/the-epstein-humiliation

www.mtracey.net/p/what-is-steve-bannon-hiding-about

sonar21.com/tulsi-gabbards-revelations-why-now/

sonar21.com/the-struggle-for-power-in-ukraine-has-begun/

sonar21.com/persia-the-graveyard-of-empires/

www.nefariousrussians.com/p/we-are-all-sick-in-the-head-nowhere

meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/the-epstein-nexus

indi.ca/qanon-and-epstein/

meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/russia-hoax-treason-seditious-conspiracy

? – www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/benedict-obama-wednesday-july-23

meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/just-to-be-clear-ukraine-update s?

meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/very-briefly-russia-hoax-fraud-epstein 

www.racket.news/p/note-on-new-trump-russia-disclosures

www.racket.news/p/barack-obama-now-squarely-in-russiagate

www.rt.com/news/621667-russiagate-probe-trump-obama/

diario-octubre.com/2025/07/27/fracaso-absoluto-tulsi-gabbard-explota-contra-obama-por-su-conspiracion-traicionera/

consortiumnews.com/2025/08/01/ray-mcgovern-the-deep-states-burst-appendix/

consortiumnews.com/2025/07/27/consortium-news-busted-russiagate-9-years-ago/ 

ohiobarbarian.substack.com/p/reflections-from-the-heart-of-the-196

ohiobarbarian.substack.com/p/reflections-from-the-heart-of-the-

www.rt.com/news/622340-russiagate-hoax-soros-link/

On the Chukchi:  www.rt.com/russia/622283-arctic-warriors-who-stared-down-empire/

A visit to the ruins of Teotihuacan in central Mexico:  harindabama.com/2025/07/09/teotihuacan-vestiges-of-an-ancient-metropolis/

For many Mayan sites (and many socialist monuments and buildings in Eastern Europe), see:  michaelharrison.org.uk/

August 9th is the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples.  In a recent issue of Harper's Magazine – Israel claims to be an "indigenous" nation, and has a relationship with Pacific Islanders.

[New Russian nuclear submarines:  diario-octubre.com/2025/08/11/que-se-sabe-de-los-submarinos-mas-modernos-de-rusia ]

[What new imperialist attacks on Bolivia?  And then I heard the BBC that evening... – diario-octubre.com/2025/08/10/la-derecha-y-el-imperio-al-ataque-en-bolivia/ ]

[ www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/12/a-quartet-of-nicaragua-critics-sings-from-washingtons-songbook/ ]

[ www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/08/trumpism-nicaragua-cuba-and-venezuela/ --correct link?]

[ www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/12/american-historical-association-members-challenge-veto-on-palestinian-scholasticide/ ]

? – jamesburrillangell.substack.com/p/strange-states-nagorno-karabakh-and

Related to Sergei Magnitsky – therealistreview.substack.com/p/conman-the-story-of-william-browder

therealistreview.substack.com/p/out-of-bounds

[ diario-octubre.com/2025/08/10/policia-de-londres-detiene-a-466-personas-durante-protesta-contra-ilegalizacion-de-palestine-action/ ]

[ mpr21.info/algo-huele-a-podrido-en-la-union-europea-chat-control/ ]

[ mpr21.info/el-manual-de-la-cnn-para-manipular-las-noticias-sobre-gaza/ ]

www.thomasfazi.com/p/kaja-kallas-the-most-dangerous-woman

www.thomasfazi.com/p/moldova-pro-eu-government-turns-increasingly

post-liberalism.org/p/romanias-rigged-election-is-just 

www.pekingnology.com/p/bureaucratic-lapse-not-bioterror

"Venezuelan man nearly dies after being denied medical care at Florida Everglades concentration camp" – www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/08/ofpy-a08.html

diario-octubre.com/2025/08/08/la-farsa-del-estatuto-de-neutralidad-de-canarias/

diario-octubre.com/2025/08/07/muestra-internacional-de-cine-conecta-a-cuba-y-japon/

diario-octubre.com/2025/08/08/fidel-y-la-fuerza-de-sus-ideas/

diario-octubre.com/2025/08/08/fidel-castro-frente-a-todos-los-peligros/

Friedrich Engels passed away 130 years ago, August 5, 1895, in London, in the UK:  cpcml.ca/Tmlm2025/TS5522.HTM#1

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Engels

? – spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=17&month=07&year=2025

spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=22&month=07&year=2025 

futurism.com/harvard-paper-interstellar-object-alien

[More on incoming comet 3I/ATLAS as an extraterrestrial probe or artifact:  futurism.com/interstellar-object-light ]

www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/lyndon-b-johnson-space-center

www.rt.com/news/622430-us-and-russia-space/

diario-octubre.com/2025/07/29/el-jefe-de-roscosmos-llega-a-ee-uu-para-las-primeras-negociaciones-en-anos-con-la-nasa/

diario-octubre.com/2025/07/27/un-exoplaneta-revela-el-gigantesco-secreto-de-una-estrella/

A hot Jupiter-type planet may have been found orbiting alpha Centauri, a mere four light years away, more or less (4.3 ly).  The cloud of comets orbiting the Sun is thought to extend far into space, and maybe the outer edge of the triple star Rigel Kentaurus system isn't that far beyond.  NPR's report was wrong about alpha Centauri's brightness, though.  Rigel Kentaurus must not be visible this far north. They also said some strange things about Armenia and Azerbaijan in a news brief ("Soviet satellites," and they cooperated to become independent?; so, North Carolina is a "satellite" of the USA?  Skimming Wikipedia, there has been violence between the two peoples since before independence).  

The discovery of one or more new planets orbiting the Sun might be close.  Nemesis?

"Cicadas in Japan" – www.nippon.com/en/guide-to-japan/cs00017/cicadas-in-japan.html

Koutaro Ould Maenos and locusts? – www.nippon.com/en/people/c15401/

The North American Rothschildia orizaba silkmoth:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschildia_orizaba

The Spanish Wikipedia entry:  es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschildia

bugguide.net/node/view/805473Rothschildia_orizaba 

[On Orizaba, [in the Mexican State of  Veracruz:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orizaba ]

Milkweed:  sydneymichalski.substack.com/p/butterfly-houses

Riding on Greyhound:  walkingtheworld.substack.com/p/destitution-fair-a-week-of-riding

www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h02477/international-visitors-to-japan-hit-20-million-in-first-half-of-2025.html

"Relations on the Rocks? Survey Finds 70% of Japanese See Ties with USA Fraying" – www.nippon.com/en/in-depth/d01157/

Food waste (a source of greenhouse gas emissions) is decreasing in Japan:  www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h02463/ 

Dynamism undone by population downturns:  www.nippon.com/en/in-depth/d01144/

diario-octubre.com/2025/08/08/japon-pierde-casi-un-millon-de-habitantes-al-ano/

Just say no to "AI" – engelsbergideas.com/essays/a-warning-to-the-young-just-say-no-to-ai/

roburie.substack.com/p/genocide-and-nuclear-weapons-are still 'The Plan'  

roburie.substack.com/p/socialism-is-the-path-to-liberty

? – rachelblevins.substack.com/p/netanyahu-stunned-hamas-ambush-laith-marouf

This should be posted at:  www.gp.org/press_releases , but so far it has only been sent out by email, at mid-day on August 7th.

Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki

 Dear [ ],

This August marks the 80th anniversary of one of the darkest times in human history – the United States initiated the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, followed by another atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki on August 9th.

["Photo of the mushroom cloud over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945"]

In Hiroshima, it’s estimated that 70,000 people were killed immediately upon impact; in Nagasaki, 40,000. But many more were to suffer and die from radiation poisoning and by the end of 1945, over 210,000 lives had been lost to the horrors of nuclear weapons.

Sadly as we commemorate the human cost of nuclear warfare, today the world is no closer to peace. The saber-rattling of the two corporate parties brings us to the edge of a nuclear catastrophe that would threaten all life on our planet. 

Said Madelyn Hoffman, co-chair of the Green Party US Peace Action Committee, “Having visited both Hiroshima and Nagasaki 10 years ago, on the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombings, I am appalled that the world seems not to have learned anything about the need to avoid nuclear war at all costs. The Hibakusha, survivors of the atomic bombings of 1945, spent much of their lives warning that humanity and nuclear weapons are on a collision course and urging all the world’s governments to eliminate their nuclear weapons. Yet, just about a month ago, the U.S. and Israel threatened Iran in such a way that Iran now says they will seek nuclear weapons [DS – Is this true, though it is of course understandable?], after spending about 15 years trying to convince the world that they had no such aspirations. We need to tone down the rhetoric and stop the military action, to bring about a world at peace”.

As the genocide in Gaza continues with mass forced starvation looming over the entire population, Representative Randy Fine [a Republican representing Florida:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Fine ] recently evoked the hell on earth unleashed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki with a chilling call for Gaza’s nuclear annihilation. He was seen on Fox News saying: “We nuked the Japanese twice in order to get unconditional surrender. That’s what needs to be done (in Gaza).”

Meanwhile, Donald Trump, who had promised to end the Ukrainian proxy war with Russia on his first day of office, just made a dangerous escalation in sending two more nuclear submarines up against the Russian border.

As bad as the AIPAC-funded Republicans are, we can’t forget that the Democrats are in their pocket too. The genocide in Gaza was enabled and funded by Joe Biden while Kamala Harris made clear that there would be no daylight between her and Biden as she promised to preside over “the most lethal fighting force in the world” had she been elected.

Green Party Presidential candidate, Dr. Jill Stein refused to allow the genocide in Gaza to be swept under the rug. She ran on the promise to end the carnage on day one of her Presidency and gave people a choice to vote for a true candidate of peace. In her fierce advocacy for the people of Gaza, she earned the endorsement of Abandon Harris.

The Green Party has always stood against the Military Industrial Complex and the weapons of mass destruction that threaten the planet.

The Green Party of the United State’s platform has a comprehensive peace policy with the goal of abolishing nuclear weapons by taking the following steps:

• Declare a no-first-strike policy. 
• Declare a no-pre-emptive strike policy. 
• Declare that the U.S. will never threaten or use a nuclear weapon, regardless of size, on a non-nuclear nation. 
• Sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). Our pledge to end testing will open the way for non-nuclear states to sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which has been held up by our refusal to sign the CTBT. Honor the conditions set in the NPT for nuclear nations. 
• Reverse our withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and honor its stipulations. 
• End the research, testing and stockpiling of all nuclear weapons of any size. 
• Dismantle all nuclear warheads from their missiles.

Today, as we reflect upon the terror experienced by the victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years ago, we must honor their memories by doubling down on our commitment to give voters the option of peace with the Green Party. Because we don’t take corporate money, we rely on people like you to support us in giving voters all over the nation the opportunity to choose peace at the ballot box.

In Solidarity,
The Green Party of the United States

[From VFP August 13th:

JUSTIN LOZA, a post-9/11 veteran member and President of Monterey VFP Chapter 46, carried a message directly from the VFP convention to a Hiroshima Day commemoration event at home. Speaking on behalf of VFP:

"I shared the story of Leon Cloder, a Hiroshima survivor and peace activist whom I met personally at the convention. Leon was just six years old when the bomb was dropped. His memories are vivid, from the flash that lit up the sky, to the chaos that followed, to his father’s choice to turn their shattered home into a first aid station. Through it all, he said, 'my father kept a peaceful heart.'

"In the second half of my speech, I connected Leon’s story to what’s happening right now in Gaza, where civilians are again trapped with no safe refuge, and where children and families are bearing the weight of war.

"I ended with a call to action: for veterans to use our voices to expose the true costs of war and support the complete elimination of nuclear weapons."

JACK GILROY reported on the Hiroshima/Nagasaki Remembrance organized by VFP Stu Naismith Chapter 92 in Broome County, New York, on August 6, 2025, which also featured speakers who had presented at our recent convention.

Rachel Clark, Japanese by birth and American by choice, joined with Japanese resident of Hiroshima, Ken'ichi Narikawa, for a solemn and informative morning at First Congregational Church in Binghamton. Rachel riveted the audience with her comments, and translated Ken'ichi's story of his conversion to nonviolence after 27 years in the Japanese Navy.

 

Ken'ichi and others rang the large bell in memory of the tens of thousands incinerated on August 6, 1945, over 200,000 of whom would die of severe burns, radiation, and leukemia. Three days later, we did it again in Nagasaki — another civilian town — using a trigger of plutonium rather than the uranium explosion of the bomb in Hiroshima. It was a most violent start of the nuclear age. 

 

Ed Nizalowski, a member of Peace Action/VFP used his soprano sax to give solemnity to the setting.

Rachel Clark, Japanese by birth and American by choice, joined with Japanese resident of Hiroshima, Ken'ichi Narikawa, for a solemn and informative morning at First Congregational Church in Binghamton. Rachel riveted the audience with her comments, and translated Ken'ichi's story of his conversion to nonviolence after 27 years in the Japanese Navy.   Ken'ichi and others rang the large bell in memory of the tens of thousands incinerated on August 6, 1945, over 200,000 of whom would die of severe burns, radiation, and leukemia. Three days later, we did it again in Nagasaki — another civilian town — using a trigger of plutonium rather than the uranium explosion of the bomb in Hiroshima. It was a most violent start of the nuclear age.    Ed Nizalowski, a member of Peace Action/VFP used his soprano sax to give solemnity to the setting. PAT ELDER reported on August 6, "Several temporarily blocked the entrance to the Pentagon this morning with ashes, wearing sackcloths.* Two were arrested, the rest of us warned. There were about 40 of us." VFP shared the video of this action on Instagram and Facebook. [[VFP:  ]The biblical reference for this action can be found in Genesis 37:31-34.]  ADDITIONAL COMMEMORATIVE activities featured VFP's historic Golden Rule anti-nuclear sailboat, which arrived in San Francisco and was officially welcomed at Pier 39 (J Dock) on Tuesday morning, August 5. The new film Golden Rule: The Journey for Peace was screened in Oakland on Sunday, August 10. On Friday, August 22, Dennis Bernstein and KPFA’s Flashpoints team are planning a live broadcast from the boat.    The 34-foot wooden ketch and her 4-person crew will sail around San Francisco Bay throughout August, making stops in multiple cities, including San Francisco, Alameda, Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond and San Mateo. Public meetings with local organizations will feature film screenings and speakers warning about the growing danger of nuclear war. Speakers will also call for an end to U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza and ICE attacks here in the U.S.    Find additional tour details at https://vfpgoldenruleproject.org/ HAWAII VFP Chapter 113's Ann Wright was one of the presenters in the first two-hour segment of the 24-hour PEACE WAVE coordinated by World BEYOND War and the International Peace Bureau. As 2025 is the 80th commemoration of the horrific U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this first segment, which covered Hawaii and the Eastern Pacific, included nuclear issues from the Marshall Islands, Big Island and Guahan. [See:  first two-hour segment of the 24-hour PEACE WAVE ]

BELOW are just a few links to the many, many essays and resources shared across peace and justice networks as the international community marked 80 years since the horrific atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Government Officials Who Push the Button of Nuclear Weapons Will Die First, As They Should by VFP Advisor Ann Wright [Peace & Planet News, Summer 2025] Are We on the Verge of Nuclear War? by VFP Board Member Gerry Condon [Peace & Planet News, Summer 2025] No, Nuking Cities Did Not Save Lives by VFP Advisor David Swanson [World BEYOND War, August 2, 2025] 80 Years after Trinity: Why Was There So Little Dissent at Los Alamos and What Does It Mean Today? by Eric Ross [TomDispatch, July 17, 2025] How Civil Nuclear Power Funds Nuclear Weapons, 7-minute investigative video report by Josh Toussaint-Strauss et al. [The Guardian, July 24, 2025] Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha, book by Robert “Bo” Jacobs [Yale University Press, 2022] Silent War: Retelling 80 Years of the Atomic Bomb and the Cold War, a new film by Dirk van den Berg and Pascal Verroust. [The original version, In the Shadow of the Bomb, is made for German-speaking audiences and evokes literary memories of the 1960s and 70s. It is viewable with English subtitles on Vimeo. Later this year, an international version of the film will be released.] ON JULY 23, WBNG Channel 12 in Johnson City, New York, broke the news of local residents including VFP members protesting the Israeli flag being flown over the Broome County Correctional Center, and threatening a lawsuit over the flagrant disregard of New York State Public Building Law. Public exposure of this crime finally forced the sheriff to take down the flag, a victory that resulted in a great story picked up by Pressenza, Counter Currents, Dissident Voice, and Anti-war.com. Thanks to Jack Gilroy for his leadership in and reporting on this matter. Douglas Lummis is an American political scientist and commentator specializing in political theory who currently resides in Okinawa, Japan. Born in San Francisco, he graduated from the University of California at Berkeley. In 1960, he was stationed in Okinawa as a U.S. Marine. After leaving the military in 1961, he moved to the Kansai region of Japan and became active in Japanese peace movements, including the Beheiren (Citizens’ League for Peace in Vietnam). He served as a professor at Tsuda University from 1980 until his retirement in 2000.   Douglas has launched a series of video talks titled War is Hell: Meditations of an Ex-Marine. The PLAYLIST contains three segments so far.  [See:  PLAYLIST ] WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13 • 11am EDT | 10am CDT | 8am PDT Keeping Space for Peace Not War SE Regional VFP–hosted Zoom meeting  A proposal originating from President Trump’s U.S. Space Force, DARC (Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability) is a significant element in plans by Trump and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to develop a monopoly over the global commons of space, increasing the capacity of the U.S. for both territorial dominance over space and the military targeting of foreign satellites. It is on both a local and a national basis, though, that Roy Jones presents the case of Pembrokeshire Against the Radar Campaign (PARC). REGISTER HERE. [ REGISTER HERE.] TUESDAY, AUGUST 26 • 7:30pm EDT | 6:30pm CDT | 4:30pm PDT Immigration, ICE, and Deportation   Hear from two people who have long been involved in social justice struggles at our southern border. Lulu Matute, Organizing Coordinator for School of the Americas Watch (SOAW), works alongside grassroots movements in Latin America resisting U.S.-backed militarization, privatization, and the displacement of Indigenous and campesino communities. Since 2016, she has also volunteered in the borderlands, providing humanitarian aid, emergency medical services, and search-and-rescue support to migrants in crisis, upholding the principle that all lives deserve dignity and protection. Jenn Budd was a Senior Patrol Agent with the U.S. Border Patrol in San Diego, a Senior Intelligence Agent at San Diego Sector Headquarters and an Acting Supervisory Border Patrol Agent from 1995 to 2002 when she resigned in protest due to the rampant corruption and brutality she witnessed daily. Her acclaimed 2002 memoir is titled Against the Wall: My Journey from Border Patrol Agent to Immigrant Rights Activist. CLICK HERE to join the meeting when the time comes. [ CLICK HERE to join ] SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 • 4:30pm EDT | 3:30pm CDT | 1:30pm PDT VFP Be the Change Book Club Meeting (online)    VFP members are invited to join us in September as we begin an in-depth discussion of the classic 1987 work by Riane Eisler, The Chalice and The Blade, which "validates a belief in humanity's capacity for benevolence and cooperation in the face of so much...destruction" [from a review in the S.F. Examiner-Chronicle]. To join the book club, fill out THIS FORM. [To join:  THIS FORM.] SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 • 8pm EDT | 7pm CDT | 5pm PDT | 2pm HST Global Network 33rd Annual Space Conference K.J. Noh Keynote: "NATO-US Prepare for War on China"   This Zoom-based conference features journalist K.J. Noh, political analyst, writer and educator specializing in the geopolitics and political economy of the Asia-Pacific region. Also on the program: Video updates on space issues by Dr. Dave Webb, Global Network board chair and retired university professor from Leeds, England, and a report on the Keep Space for Peace Week 2025 (happening October 4-11). There will also b e time for open discussion with the audience. Facilitator: Mary Beth Sullivan. REGISTER HERE. [ REGISTER HERE. ]   Find more antiwar and peace events (and post your own) on the World BEYOND War Events Calendar. ]