By Jonathan King & Richard Krushnic This article was originally published in Truthout.  President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech failed to discuss a critical matter — the administration’s funding for the upgrading of all three legs of the nuclear weapons triad: Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs), submarines and bomber … Read More

WHEREAS, the house / next door no longer / stands. It’s lying like an old carpet / on the floor of the earth, / trampled by missiles, fat slippers / flying off legless feet; and WHEREAS, every time we leave the house, / it’s suicide. / And each return a … Read More

by Kathleen Malley-Morrison The Peace Advocate is running a series of opinion pieces about the 2024 elections. We encourage our members and supporters to submit their analyses. We welcome different points of view. – The Editors The cruel and devastating genocide–and ecocide–imposed on Gaza by the far-right government of … Read More

by Craig Simpson Three days after the Oscar sweep of the Oppenheimer bio movie, Massachusetts Peace Action held a webinar with another side of the story. Oppenheimer the film is not an anti-nuclear weapons film. It is a film about a White male scientist who, in his inner mind, … Read More

By Anicca Juraschka Sullivan “Negotiation is never a surrender,” Pope Francis stated in an interview on Saturday, March 9, calling on both Russia and Ukraine to “have the courage of raising the white flag” and to find a diplomatic solution to end the war in Ukraine. While he was applauded … Read More

by Hoffmann the Organizer In a recent lead editorial in the New York Times, Thomas Friedman boldly labels the governing philosophy of the era we’re living in: “The Biden Doctrine.”  In that piece he limits the scope of this doctrine to the Middle East, hailing a grand alliance among the … Read More