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SUMMARY:4th Anniversary of Ukraine War: End it Now\, or It Could End Up in a Nuclear War!
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Ivana Nikolic´ Hughes will discuss the urgent need for a negotiated end to the Ukraine War\, even with significant concessions to the Russians given the increasingly dire military situation facing the Ukrainians.  This would prevent the US or NATO from escalating with new long-range missiles\, troops\, or attacks on Russian shipping and other targets– such as the alleged Ukrainian 90-drone ‘decapitation’ attack in late December on one of Russian President Putin’s homes– to try to avoid a total Ukrainian defeat.   Such escalation could trigger WWIII\, and a catastrophic nuclear war. \nShe will also discuss the increasing danger of nuclear war between the US and Russia because both the Biden and Trump administrations failed to negotiate with Russia to renew the START treaty (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty).  It has been the most effective treaty over the past forty years to limit nuclear weapons.  It expires on Feb. 6th\, and she will discuss the importance of a groundswell of public support for Trump to agree to Putin’s offer to extend the treaty while beginning new negotiations to renew and even expand it. \nDr. Ivana Nikolic´ Hughes is President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and a Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Chemistry at Columbia University. She holds a BS with Honors from Caltech\, and a PhD from Stanford University. She has been a faculty member at Columbia University since 2008 and currently serves as a member of the Scientific Advisory Group to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Her writing has appeared in The Nation\, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists\, The Hill\, Scientific American\, Truthout\, Common Dreams\, Transcend Media Service\, The Diplomat\, and elsewhere. \nCosponsored by Ukraine: A Time for Peace Campaign and the Nuclear Disarmament Working Group of MAPA. \nRegister to attend:
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/4th-anniversary-of-ukraine-war-end-it-now-or-it-could-end-up-in-a-nuclear-war/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Nuclear Disarmament,Ukraine/Russia
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SUMMARY:This War Must End\, and It Must End Now
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, February 24\, to mourn the 4th anniversary of the Ukraine war.\nBoston – Park Street Station\, 12 noon to 1:15 pm \nPittsfield – Rep Richard Neal’s office\, 78 Center St\, 12 noon \nNorthampton – Rep Jim McGovern’s office\, 94 Pleasant St\, noon \nSpringfield – Rep Richard Neal’s office\, 300 State St\, 1pm \nWorcester – Memorial Auditorium\, 2 Highland St\, 3pm\n \nThis month also commemorates the expiration of the New Start Treaty\, as President Trump refused to negotiate with Russia to extend this last remaining nuclear weapons control treaty. We are about to begin a nuclear arms race\, which will consume vast resources that both countries need to benefit their own people. \nWe have never been closer to nuclear war since the Cuban Missile Crisis over 60 years ago. In Ukraine\, we are dancing on the edge of nuclear war with the world’s largest nuclear power. Whatever our perspective on Russia’s invasion\, it is time to acknowledge that the U.S. and NATO strategy of “fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian” has been a catastrophe and total failure. In fact\, the very existence of an independent Ukraine is now in doubt. Further escalations only make that outcome more likely. \nThe U.S. and Europe have poured hundreds of billions of dollars into the war\, despite the acute need for those funds back home. Trump and Biden have provided Ukraine with the most sophisticated weapons and with intelligence support to fire missiles into Russia. Under Obama our CIA established 12 bases inside Ukraine to build up Ukraine’s capacity for covert operations\nand make Russia feel pain. But the war effort has failed\, and more weapons and money can’t change that reality. \nThe result is that Ukraine is suffering a demographic nightmare as entire generations of its men are being killed and disabled. Its animals are dying. Its rich soil is being poisoned. Millions of its people have left for Western Europe or for Russia. And its young men avoid the draft in droves. Its neo nazis hold an influence over the country far beyond their numbers as statues of the Nazi collaborator Stefan Bandera spring up in public places. All because peace agreements that would have kept the country together were rejected by Presidents Obama and Biden in their pursuit of weakening Russia.  \nThe fact is that Russia was never going to allow the U.S. to establish a military bulwark right on its huge border with Ukraine any more than the U.S. would allow a Russian military base in Mexico. The war is a fool’s errand leading to this never-ending catastrophe. \nLet’s make sure we don’t have to commemorate a 5th anniversary of this war. Join us on February 24th in Boston\, Pittsfield\, Northampton\, Springfield\, or Worcester to oppose further escalation by all sides.
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/this-war-must-end-now/
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CATEGORIES:Ukraine/Russia
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SUMMARY:Boiling Point: How America Brought War to Ukraine
DESCRIPTION:On this\, the fourth anniversary of the Ukraine war\, award winning author and foreign correspondent Stephen Kinzer brings to light the roots of the conflict and the U.S. role in helping to instigate the war. He will examine the Russian invasion\, the continuing dangerous U.S. and European Ukraine policies\, and prospects for ending the war in 2026. \nStephen Kinzer is an award-winning author and foreign correspondent who has covered more than 50 countries on five continents. His articles and books have led the Washington Post to place him “among the best in popular foreign policy storytelling.” He was Latin America correspondent for The Boston Globe\, and then spent more than 20 years working for the New York Times\, with extended postings in Nicaragua\, Germany\, and Turkey. He is a visiting fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. His numerous books include Overthrow\, All the Shah’s Men\, The Brothers: John Foster Dulles\, Allen Dulles and Their Secret World War; The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt\, Mark Twain and the Birth of American Empire and Poisoner in Chief. His latest book (to be released this fall is Boiling Point: How America Brought War to Ukraine. Hence\, the title of this webinar. He is now a Boston Globe columnist\, providing deep insight into U.S. foreign policy. \nRegister to attend:
URL:https://masspeaceaction.org/event/boiling-point-how-america-brought-us-to-war-in-ukraine/
LOCATION:Online Event
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