Campaign Plan: No First Use: Decrease the Danger of Nuclear War Introduction: With the proposed upgrade of nuclear weapons, withdrawal from arms control treaties, and signs of a new Cold War with Russia and China, the danger of nuclear weapons use is increasing. This campaign […]
Taiwan has become the most dangerous flashpoint in the new U.S.-China Cold War. Neither side wants war, but accidents and miscalculations are not uncommon. While U.S. support for the island’s liberal democracy is a profound source of tension with authoritarian China, two geostrategic realities are […]
Civil society groups rallied at U.S. legislators’ offices in New York, Boston, and San Francisco on Friday, July 16th as part of a National Day of Action for Yemen. They called for U.S. senators & representatives to introduce a new War Powers Resolution to end […]
This week’s eruption of demonstrations in Cuba clearly represent the frustration of the Cuban people who have long suffered under the economic crisis brought on by the 60-year US blockade. The President, Miguel Díaz-Canel acknowledged this in a comprehensive nationally televised address on Sunday and […]
“I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government.” – Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967 When, and […]
by Pat Hynes We live in a time of diminishing hope with worsening climate crisis and insufficient will among those most responsible–major industrial countries–to radically reduce their emissions now, not a decade or three decades from now. We cohabitate with more than 13,000 nuclear weapons […]
by Jerald Ross and Joseph Gerson This August marks the 76th anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan. Despite broad recognition today that these attacks created a humanitarian catastrophe, as would any future use of nuclear weapons, we […]
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