Year: 2024 - Page 9 - Massachusetts Peace Action

In a Perilous Time: Nuclear Dangers, Politics, and the New Cold War

July 30, 2024 Joseph Gerson

Originally published in Pressenza by Joseph Gerson UN Secretary-General Guterres warns that “Humanity is on a knife’s edge. The risk of nuclear weapons being used has reached heights not seen since the Cold War.” New Cold War bloc systems have reemerged with the “lattice-like” network […]

The Great Computer Outage is a Warning We Ignore at our Peril

July 30, 2024 Tom Valovic

Originally published in Common Dreams. by Tom Valovic July 18, 2024 will go down in history books as an event that shook up the world in a unique way. It gave the mass of humanity a pointed wake-up call about the inherent fragility of the technological systems […]

When the New Fascists Fully Arrive, It’s Not Going to Be Pretty in This World

July 25, 2024 Joseph Gerson

Originally published in Common Dreams by Joseph Gerson These are increasingly dangerous times. Several years ago, Walden Bello wrote a book about counterrevolution. With Trump and Vance, two classical fascists, recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions, and the Heritage Foundation Project 2025, we are approaching the climax […]

Adapt Till You Drop

July 24, 2024 Hoffmann the Organizer

By Hoffmann the Organizer It must be hard for a Ukrainian or a Russian in the border areas or a Palestinian in Gaza to imagine what it would take to create a world without war. We seem to have reached that point in our own […]

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Brockton Tackles Opioid Crisis through Mobile Unit

July 24, 2024 Silas Rutherford

by Silas Rutherford BIPOC medical and social workers are leading a project to expand accessible healthcare in Brockton, MA through a mobile clinic that serves historically marginalized groups disproportionately affected by the opioid crisis. This project, Community Care in Reach, was created to develop the […]

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Photos: Gage Skidmore; Michael Vadon.

Biden Out, Harris In. What are the Implications for Peace?

July 23, 2024 Brian Garvey

by Brian Garvey On Sunday July 21st President Biden announced that he would not seek reelection in the 2024 campaign and, shortly thereafter, endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris, to replace him as the Democratic nominee. Since then potential rivals for the nomination like California […]

Sign-up for Ukraine Summer Tabling!

July 19, 2024 Silas Nahan

Now is the Time to Act: The Ukraine War gets more dangerous and deadly by the day. Please Sign-up Here a for time slot this summer and help us table for Peace in Ukraine End the Ukraine War Ceasefire and Negotiations Now — Before it […]