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As the 25th Anniversary of the 9/11 Attacks Approaches, the Prospects for a Trial in the Guantánamo Military Commissions Remain Uncertain
Legal proceedings in the case against the five men accused of planning and supporting the 9/11 attacks are stalled as multiple issues wend their way through four different military and federal courts. The current (and fifth) presiding judge in the case, Lt. Col....
Persian Gulf War Resources
Image: Natural Earth, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Organization statements News and Commentary US and International Law Background Organization statements A Madman Without a Strategy: Trump’s Latest Threats Are Unacceptable, Arms Control Association, April 7,...
Israel/Palestine War: Resources
Image: Rousseau Diderot, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons United for Peace and Justice here provides statements, analysis, and commentary from a variety of organizations, news sources, and analysts, including statements from United for Peace and Justice member groups...
Veterans, Military Family Members Zip-Tied & Arrested Demanding “End War on Iran”
Image credit: Veterans for Peace On Monday, April 20th, 150 veterans and military family members held an act of civil disobedience peacefully protesting, in the Cannon Building rotunda, Washington D.C. Their demand was an end to the immoral Iran war and its funding....
“A Mighty Lion has Fallen”
United for Peace & Justice is deeply saddened by the passing of Rev. Jesse Jackson, and we express our condolences to his family and loved ones. Many movements for peace and justice have lost a visionary, a mentor, and a moral leader, but we will carry on the...
The Shameful 24th Anniversary of the Opening of the Military Detention Facility on the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base
The day before Camp X-Ray was revealed to the American public in 2002, the Bush Administration prison commander at Guantánamo claimed the inmates would be “the worst of the worst.” On January 19, 2026, the DHS (Department of Homeland Security) assured the American...
UFPJ Groups Condemn U.S. Attack on Venezuela
United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) unequivocally condemns the massive deployment of U.S. naval, ground, and aerial forces in the Caribbean, the violent, illegal, and immoral U.S. attacks on Venezuela, and the abduction of its President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, in...
Trump’s Dangerous Nuclear Testing Rhetoric
By Jackie Cabasso, Executive Director, Western States Legal Foundation Photo: U.S. government As the UN Secretary General warned on the September 26 International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, “nuclear testing threats are returning, while nuclear...
Environmental Review Begins of Massive Project to Produce Plutonium Cores of Nuclear Weapons
By John Burroughs, Senior Analyst, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, and Board Member, Western States Legal Foundation The United States is now planning to establish an infrastructure capable of producing at least 80 plutonium pits for nuclear weapons per year. The...
“No more Hiroshimas. No more Nagasakis. No more war. No more hibakusha”
by Jackie Cabasso, Executive Director, Western States Legal Foundation; National Co-convener, United for Peace & Justice; Mayors for Peace North American Coordinator photo: the Nagasaki Peace Statue August 6th and 9th marked the 80th anniversaries of the U.S....
#HumanRaceNotArmsRace
As we approach the 80th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, authoritarian nationalists now hold state power in seven of the nine nuclear-armed states. Even limited progress towards arms control and disarmament has...
First They Bombed New Mexico
August 6 and 9, 2025 will mark the 80th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But before the U.S. bombed Hiroshima, on July 16, 1945, it bombed New Mexico, conducting the very first test explosion of a nuclear weapon at the White Sands...