Latin America
Month: February 2022
No New Cold War
US Push for Ukraine to Join NATO Reflects Arrogance
by Peter Kakos What continues to amaze me is the arrogance of our US push for Ukraine to join the NATO alliance. Didn’t anyone in high places acknowledge that doing so would be the equivalent to having Canada join the Russian Federation? Would our response […]
No New Cold War
My appeal to the Peace Movement
by Ann Frisch My appeal to the Peace Movement: goal is to defuse so we have time to talk Fifteen years of being trained in nonpartisanship as an unarmed civilian protector, I can spot a partisan statement without a conscious thought. But the use of […]
Ukraine/Russia
Approaching the Current World Crisis in a Spirit of Peace
Anyone who is seriously concerned about the current war in the Ukraine and wants to contribute to peace needs to carefully consider how the world came to the point it is in today. In this process our priority must be to understand in what way […]
No New Cold War
International Law or the Law of the Jungle?
by Jeff Klein first published in the Dorchester People for Peace Update, February 25, 2022 There is no doubt that the Russian attack on Ukraine, which amplifies the already tense and dangerous situation in eastern Europe, is a blatant violation of international law. Unilateral military […]
Ukraine/Russia
Ukraine: Diplomacy and De-Escalation, not Further Militarization
This statement by national Peace Action was written before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine Wednesday night. We grieve for the victims of this violence and call for an immediate cease-fire and urgent diplomacy. – Eds. Peace Action condemns the deployment of Russian troops into the Donbas […]
Peace and Climate
The Necessity of Hope
by Nick Rabb As a younger person living in 2022, the world seems to be stacking the deck against me. Although I have privilege in many ways, my life has been marked by financial crises, a growing climate crisis, a global pandemic, senseless wars, and […]