Month: August 2021

Middle East Wars

The Modernization of Warfare

August 17, 2021 Annika Lof
by Annika Lof Drones have been a controversial instrument of warfare ever since the US military began using them. Some believe that they’re an effective weapon that lowers casualties, while others rightfully point out the inaccuracy of drones and their tendency to strike civilians. Technological […]
Afghan women, 1950s
Middle East Wars

Ignoring the Original Sin in Afghanistan

August 17, 2021 Jeff Klein
by Jeff Klein Originally published in Dorchester People for Peace Update, August 13, 2021 As the corrupt US-installed government and its pretend army collapses even faster than predicted, the roots of the current crisis, which go back much further than the US invasion of 2001, […]
Lewis Randa at Pacifist Memorial event, August 1, 2021. Photo by Jane O'Hara
Strategy and Ideas

The Pacifist Memorial Honors Peacemakers

August 17, 2021 Lewis Randa
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 […]
Joseph Gerson spoke at Watertown's Hiroshima/Nagasaki commemoration, Aug 8, 2021. Virginia Pratt photo
Nuclear Disarmament

Nuclear Disarmament is More Urgent than Ever

August 9, 2021 Joseph Gerson
by Joseph Gerson Remarks delivered at the Watertown Hiroshima/Nagasaki Commemoration, August 8, 2021 (August 9 in Nagasaki) Friends, The A-bombings , 76 years ago, were crimes humanity. They were indiscriminate, unnecessary, and ushered in an era in which human survival is constantly threated by accident, […]