Author: Joseph Gerson

Trump’s Iran War: And the Big Fool Says Push On

April 8, 2026 Joseph Gerson

Fact-checking the bald-face lies in a morally obscene address by the most criminally corrupt and morally bankrupt US president in the history of the nation. We were waist deep in the Big Muddy The big fool said to push on —Pete Seeger On April Fool’s […]

The U.S. & China: Competition, Conflagration, Or Coexistence

November 10, 2025 Joseph Gerson

by Joseph Gerson (Originally published in Pressenza) Humanity finds itself in the inherent conflict between rising and declining powers that has often, as in World Wars I and II, culminated in catastrophic wars. The U.S.-Chinese trade war undermines both powers’ economies and simultaneously jeopardizes the […]

Paper cranes in the Peace Memorial Park, Hiroshima.

Approaching 80th Anniversary of Hiroshima/Nagasaki

July 22, 2025 Joseph Gerson

by Joseph Gerson Over many years, I have had the extraordinary privilege of working with Japanese atomic and hydrogen bomb survivors. These are people who have endured and transformed the worst imaginable physical and emotional traumas into the most influential force for nuclear weapons abolition. […]

Trump’s Iran Attack Showcases Why Nuclear Apartheid Must End

June 30, 2025 Joseph Gerson

by Joseph Gerson This piece was originally published in Common Dreams. War is Not the Answer Ever since Senator Kennedy’s campaign to transform Boston into a nuclear weapons base was defeated 40 years ago, I have had the extraordinary privilege of working with Japanese and […]

Trump’s Sovereigntist Imperialism Will Trigger Self-Defeating US Decline

February 26, 2025 Joseph Gerson

by Joseph Gerson Originally published in Common Dreams Days after November’s Trump/MAGA election victory, a senior Russian diplomat asked how great a historical transformation it signaled. Was it the equivalent of the Civil War, or the Depression era New Deal? Soon it was clear. Jamille […]

The Timely Importance of Japanese A-Bomb Survivors Receiving the Nobel Peace Prize

December 12, 2024 Joseph Gerson

by Joseph Gerson This piece was originally published in Common Dreams. With humanity facing the greatest danger of nuclear apocalypse since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, this year’s Nobel Peace Prize wisely refocuses world attention on the urgency of renewing nuclear disarmament diplomacy. The following […]

President Donald Trump with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and their spouses, Feb. 15, 2017, at the White House. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)

The Would-be Dictator’s Foreign and Military Commitments

November 14, 2024 Joseph Gerson

by Joseph Gerson Originally published in Common Dreams, with updates On November 6, many of us woke to the reality that our nation is even more corrupt and dangerous than we had realized as a majority of U.S. voters embraced and voted for a fascist, racist, […]