war – People's World

Trump tosses veterans aside, says those who die in war are ‘losers’

September 4, 2020 By Greg Kearney

The latest from People's World cartoonist Greg Kearney.

Virtual march on Livermore Lab caps Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing anniversaries

August 10, 2020 By Marilyn Bechtel

The U.S. lab is devoting nearly 90% of its over-$2 billion budget for 2020-21 to nuclear weapons; only 2% will go to civilian science.

Hiroshima survivors hammer Japanese government for not signing anti-nuke treaty

August 6, 2020 By Morning Star

Manabu Isawa, son of a bombing survivor who recently died, said: “Prime Minister Abe’s actions don’t match his words. Japan apparently sides with the United States."

Australian government ramps up anti-China campaign, spends billions on weaponry

July 15, 2020 By Denis Doherty And Hannah Middleton

Australian PM Morrison is using fear as his chief weapon, evoking the rise of Nazism and describing the post-pandemic world as “poorer, more dangerous, and more disorderly.”

Spike Lee’s ‘Da 5 Bloods’: Black Lives Matter meets ‘Rambo’ [spoilers]

June 25, 2020 By Dennis Broe

Self-conscious about the idiocy of the Rambo myth where Stallone returns to fight the war and this time to win, the film nevertheless falls into the same racist and imperialist Hollywood tropes.