by Michael Klare President Biden’s special envoy on climate change, former Secretary of State John Kerry, traveled to Tianjin, China on August. 31 and Sept. 1 to meet with Chinese officials on joint efforts to slow the pace of global warming. While in Tianjin, Kerry […]
by Jim Hassett Beijing is irrevocably committed to regaining control of Taiwan, an island about 100 miles off China’s coast. But the US and its allies are committed to the opposite: helping Taiwan maintain its status as an independent county. Something’s got to give. To […]
By Marcus Breen Anti-Chinese views dominate public opinion in the United States. This is hardly surprising given that the media and information services generally, act like magnets for prejudice. Rather than being sites of rational debate, the current state of things continues the great American […]
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 […]
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 […]
Following is the statement of purpose for the No Cold War group initiated by Massachusetts Peace Action. The statement was approved in October 2020. Increasing tensions between the United States, China, and Russia threaten to drag the entire planet into a new Cold War. The […]
by Joseph Gerson Remarks delivered at the People & Planet, not Profits Tax Day in Boston, MA on May 17th 2021. Counting the dark money so-called intelligence agencies, DOE nuclear weapons spending, the Pentagon’s Overseas Contingencies slush fund, and the Pentagon’s core budget of more […]
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