Year: 2021 - Page 13 - Massachusetts Peace Action

The Truth about Torture

July 20, 2021 Annika Lof

by Annika Lof A Case against Torture and Discussion of Alfred McCoy’s “In the Shadows of the American Century Torture has always been a difficult issue to confront directly and honestly. Hiding its brutality behind the rhetorical mask of “enhanced interrogation” that causes “no long-term […]

No First Use: Decrease the Danger of Nuclear War

July 20, 2021 Jonathan King

Campaign Plan: No First Use: Decrease the Danger of Nuclear War Introduction: With the proposed upgrade of nuclear weapons, withdrawal from arms control treaties, and signs of a new Cold War with Russia and China, the danger of nuclear weapons use is increasing. This campaign […]

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG 54) conducts routine operations May 18, 2021, in the Taiwan Strait. (MC3 Zenaida Roth/Navy)

Taiwan: The Most Dangerous Flashpoint in the U.S.-China Cold War

July 19, 2021 Joseph Gerson

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 […]

Congress Must Act to End U.S. support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen

July 19, 2021 Brian Garvey

Civil society groups rallied at U.S. legislators’ offices in New York, Boston, and San Francisco on Friday, July 16th as part of a National Day of Action for Yemen. They called for U.S. senators & representatives to introduce a new War Powers Resolution to end […]

Activists hold signs in Northampton, MA, while protesting the US blockade on Cuba, June 23, 2021

Emergency Response to Economic and Political Crisis in Cuba

July 14, 2021 Cole Harrison

This week’s eruption of demonstrations in Cuba clearly represent the frustration of the Cuban people who have long suffered under the economic crisis brought on by the 60-year US blockade. The President, Miguel Díaz-Canel acknowledged this in a comprehensive nationally televised address on Sunday and […]

In Opposition to US Interventionism and Sanctions

July 12, 2021 MAPA Middle East Working Group

“I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government.” – Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967 When, and […]

Hope

July 6, 2021 Patricia Hynes

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 […]