U.S. at Peace? Some Americans Think So

Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford

27 Mar 2018

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The U.S. Senate voted down, 55 to 44, a bill co-sponsored by Bernie Sanders that would have ended U.S. involvement in the Saudi Arabia-led war against Yemen. However, veteran anti-war activist David Swanson saw the action as a sign of progress, given that the Senate has never conducted such a vote based on the War Powers Act. Swanson, publisher of the influential web site WarIsACrime.org and director of World Beyond War, has found that Americans “around the country think that the U.S. is at peace, or think it’s engaged in a war somewhere, but can’t remember the name of the country.

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