By Kathleen Malley-Morrison Many progressive activists see today’s widespread threats to peace and social justice as residing primarily in oppression, societal structures, capitalism, and the US government. They blame social systems for preventing people from getting along. They point their fingers at broad social evils […]
by Stefan Schindler If today’s children and grandchildren are lucky, smart and diligent enough not to live in a dystopian future, their history books will highlight the Second World War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, America’s Indochina Holocaust, and 9/11 as four events which could have, […]
by Valentine Moghadam Contribution to the Great Transition Initiative’s Forum: Can Human Solidarity Globalize? Richard Falk’s eloquent essay asks us to make the leap from “the politics of the possible” to “a politics of impossibility” by imagining and crafting a “moral epistemology to achieve responsible anthropocentrism” […]
by Jack Trapanick In 1991, Alexander George, Noam Chomsky, and eight other intellectuals published Western State Terrorism: a collection of essays defining and exploring the mechanisms by which the concept of “terrorism” has been strictly controlled to: a) overemphasize the threat of attacks against the […]
Remarks delivered by Lewis Randa at the “History in the Making: Honoring Peace Champions” event at the Pacifist Memorial, Sherborn, on August 1, 2021 We gather before the statue of Mahatma Gandhi, its six walls of remembrance, surrounded by memorial stones to Unknown Civilians Killed […]
by Renate Bridenthal, Molly Nolan and Prasannan Parthasarathi Sanctions are an economic weapon. They restrict nations from trading in goods and transacting in financial instruments; they prohibit U.S. corporations and banks from dealing with targeted countries; and they limit the economic activities of individuals, organizations, […]
Remarks Presented at Progressive Strategy Conference, December 5, 2020 We are in a very delicate moment. We’re kind of caught between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand we have gotten rid of Donald Trump. His faux-populist, openly racist, authoritarian politics were […]
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