Rhode Island Anti-War Committee

12/22/2025

JUSTICE FOR PALESTINE. Tuesday, December 23, 3 PM in Providence
Stand with the RI Anti-War Committee to demand that the current CEASEFIRE holds in Israel’s assault on Gaza. Call for a halt to U.S. aid to Israel and instead, provide sufficient humanitarian aid for the Palestinians. No more attacks on Lebanon, Venezuela and Iran. We meet every Tuesday and Friday at 3 PM (winter hours) at the intersection of Francis and Gaspee Streets across from the Providence Place Mall. Bring friends, signs and banners. Share our Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1543251136800039/1543251160133370.
Help spread the word.
The West Bank. In one of the most detailed and documented articles ever about land seizures in the West Bank, the NY Times describes how Israeli settlers, backed by the Israeli military, destroyed farms, beat Palestinians and sometimes killed them in an effort to remove them from their homeland. In the last couple of years Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians have increased ten-fold. Sometimes the settlers come in the middle of the night, break into homes, beat and terrorize families, destroy their olive orchards and set fire to their cars and equipment. Then the Israeli army shows up to arrest Palestinians who haven’t fled and declares the village to be a closed military zone. Soon after Israeli settlers move in and begin the process of establishing a new Israeli settlement. The report, with maps, documentation and pictures, paints a horrific picture. The link to the report is: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/20/world/middleeast/west-bank-settlements.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-k8.HnL1.jZ8hclK335qf&smid=url-share . You should be able to read the article for free.
As the NYT article states, the idea of a two-state solution is all but dead. The Palestinian towns and villages are now virtually isolated from each other. There are Israeli roadblocks that prevent Palestinians from traveling between them. One town has a roadblock that prevents residents from accessing their own hospital. European leaders and the Trump administration tolerate this state of affairs and support the Israeli government while giving lip service to Palestinian rights. With the destruction and slaughter in Gaza and the theft of land and abuse of Palestinians in the West Bank, it’s hard to see how a diplomatic solution is possible.

Israeli seizure of Palestinian lands in the West Bank, often brutally, has accelerated, raising doubts about the prospects of a peaceful solution to the conflict.

12/16/2025

JUSTICE FOR PALESTINE. Tuesday, December 16, 3 PM in Providence
Stand with the RI Anti-War Committee to demand that the current CEASEFIRE holds in Israel’s assault on Gaza. Call for a halt to U.S. aid to Israel and instead, provide sufficient humanitarian aid for the Palestinians. No more attacks on Lebanon, Venezuela and Iran. We meet every Tuesday and Friday at 3 PM (winter hours) at the intersection of Francis and Gaspee Streets across from the Providence Place Mall. Bring friends, signs and banners. Share our Facebook event page https://www.facebook.com/events/1543251136800039/1543251156800037.
Help spread the word.
Full-spectrum dominance. What has it gained for Americans? The U.S. doctrine that has directed American military policy for the last two or three decades stipulates that the U.S. should be able to fight and win a major conflict and also a minor one at the same time. It has led to American military spending that now nears one trillion dollars a year and surpasses the combined total of the next nine countries with the largest militaries in the world. Has this policy made Americans any safer, or reduced the threat of more wars? On the contrary, other countries, rather than remain content as second-rate powers, have doubled down on building up their armed forces.
In addition, countries that the U.S. considers adversaries, are taking their cue from America and following their own self-interests rather global cooperation. Russia, for example, after failing to get the NATO alliance to take its concerns about NATO expansion seriously, decided to take matters into their own hands and invade Ukraine. China, after the U.S. surrounded it with dozens of bases in countries like South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore and Australia, embarked on a military build-up that brought its arsenal of missiles and naval forces up to and on par with the U.S. In computer simulated war games that the Pentagon conducts yearly, the red team (China) has defeated the blue team (the U.S.) each year since 2018.
In the battle to stay ahead, the U.S. has turned to its allies to ramp up expansion of their militaries. The hope is that with their allies the U.S. could defeat Russia and China. Already that plan is drawing push-back from American officials. The concern is that such a project will require the U.S. to share its military technology with other countries.
Notably, no one in the U.S. political class is talking about what would be the most sensible of all plans which would be to seek a path towards a reduction and eventual elimination of conventional and nuclear weapons. The wealthy, of course, would oppose such a venture because they profit so handsomely from weapons production and war.

12/05/2025

NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION
PROVIDENCE NO WAR ON
VENEZUELA
STOP THE WAR BEFORE IT STARTS
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6
FEDERAL BUILDING
1 EXCHANGE TER.
12PM RI Anti War Committee

12/02/2025

JUSTICE FOR PALESTINE. Tuesday, December 2, 3 PM in Providence.
Stand with the RI Anti-War Committee to demand that the current CEASEFIRE holds in Israel’s assault on Gaza. Call for a halt to U.S. aid to Israel and instead, provide sufficient humanitarian aid for the Palestinians. No more attacks on Yemen, Lebanon, Venezuela and Iran. We meet every Tuesday and Friday at 3 PM (winter hours) at the intersection of Francis and Gaspee Streets across from the Providence Place Mall. Bring friends, signs and banners.
Help spread the word.
The Three Body Problem. As has others have stated, Trump seems content with dividing the world into three regions in which either Russia, China or the U.S. would dominate. Events of the last year seem to bear this out. His declarations that the U.S. would take Greenland and Canada. And now take his actions against Venezuela and his acceding to letting Russia have its way in Ukraine. His thinking might well be “let Russia have its way in Central Asia. Then China can have Southeast Asia and the U.S. will have the Americas.”
That’s a dangerous prospect for humanity. Can three nuclear-armed countries jointly rule the world, extract wealth and power from the masses, and avoid nuclear armageddon?

11/27/2025

JUSTICE FOR PALESTINE. Friday, November 28, 3 PM in Providence
Join with the RI Anti-War Committee to stand against American militarism and call for an end to U.S.-backed wars. End aid to Israel and support self-determination for the Palestinians. No attacks on Venezuela, Iran or any other country. Call for the U.S. to sign on to the UN Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons. We meet every Tuesday and Friday at 3 PM (winter hours) at the intersection of Francis and Gaspee Streets across from the Providence Place Mall. Bring friends, signs and banners. Help spread the word.
No end to Trump’s meanness. In a recent memo to U.S. embassies, diplomats were instructed to pressure American allies to curb immigration to their countries. Diplomats were also told to report instances in which countries appeared to overly favor immigrants over local populations. The Trump administration wants allied countries to limit immigration and increase deportations. This is in line with Trump’s efforts to limit immigration into the U.S. including those people designated as refugees. In the past, the U.S. admitted refugees that were vetted by the State Department and were fleeing their countries because of political oppression. Now the number of those refugees is limited to 7,500 a year and many of the slots are reserved for white Afrikaner South Africans who Trump claims are being persecuted. In 2024, 100,000 refugees were admitted to the U.S.
What most reports about the migrant crisis fail to mention is that people are fleeing countries that were virtually destroyed or damaged by U.S. military attacks and economic sanctions. The people of Libya, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Venezuela have all suffered from American efforts at regime change. Regrettably, most Americans are unaware of the consequences of U.S. foreign policy. A recent poll found that only 20% of Americans are aware of the U.S. military build-up in the Caribbean that is threatening Venezuela.

11/24/2025

JUSTICE FOR PALESTINE. Tuesday, November 25, 3 PM in Providence
Stand with the RI Anti-War Committee to demand that the current CEASEFIRE holds in Israel’s assault on Gaza. Call for a halt to U.S. aid to Israel and instead, provide sufficient humanitarian aid for the Palestinians. No more attacks on Yemen, Lebanon, Venezuela and Iran. We meet every Tuesday and Friday at 3 PM (winter hours) at the intersection of Francis and Gaspee Streets across from the Providence Place Mall. Bring friends, signs and banners. Help spread the word.
This is NOT what a ceasefire looks like. The truce between Hezbollah and Israel is about one year old. Yet, with near daily Israeli bombing attacks on Lebanon, one could be forgiven if you didn’t realize it was still in effect. On Sunday, Israel killed Hezbollah’s Chief of Staff in Beirut along with five other people in a bombing attack that also wounded 25 others. In Gaza, Israel continues to kill Palestinians despite the ceasefire. In seven weeks, over 300 Palestinians have died as a result of Israeli fire and bombs. In the West Bank, Israeli settlers continue to attack Palestinian residents while the Israeli army looks on. This weekend settlers set fire to a mosque.
Meanwhile, the United Nations approved the Trump peace proposal for Gaza that effectively leaves the Palestinians voiceless in negotiations over their future. The conundrum now is that no nation is willing to be part of the international peace keeping force that will station troops in Gaza. Since the primary mission of that force will be to disarm Hamas, no one is willing to take on that task.

11/24/2025

US - HANDS OFF VENEZUELA - no to regime change, no to war,

11/20/2025

JUSTICE FOR PALESTINE. Friday, November 21, 3 PM in Providence
Join with the RI Anti-War Committee to stand against American militarism and call for an end to U.S.-backed wars. End aid to Israel and support self-determination for the Palestinians. No attacks on Venezuela, Iran or any other country. Call for the U.S. to sign on to the UN Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons. We meet every Tuesday and Friday at 3 PM (winter hours) at the intersection of Francis and Gaspee Streets across from the Providence Place Mall. Bring friends, signs and banners. Help spread the word.
What ceasefire? Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have killed 290 Palestinians since the start of the current ceasefire. Many of those killed were women and children. In this six-week period, three Israeli soldiers have been killed. This overwhelming disparity in the numbers killed is consistent with the number of people killed since October 2023. During this time while nearly 70,000 Palestinians have been killed by the IDF, the Israel Defense Ministry reports that 1,152 Israeli security personnel have been killed. This number includes the 397 Israeli soldiers killed on October 7.
Meanwhile, Israel has been bombing Lebanon on a near daily basis. Hezbollah and Israel are also in a ceasefire, and Hezbollah has not retaliated for any of these attacks. This week a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon was targeted killing 13 people. A car and two buildings were struck in which Israel claims Hamas fighters were operating. Hamas denies that claim and said that the two buildings housed families that were displaced by earlier attacks.
Trump’s not paying attention, nor does he apparently care.