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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
by Joseph Gerson This year’s Nobel Prize award could not have come at a more important time. The Hibakusha of Nihon Hidankyo have been among the most courageous and steadfast people in the world, having transformed their intense physical and emotional pains into the strongest […]
By Joseph Gerson This article was originally published in Common Dreams. The political will must be found to extinguish the violent conflicts that put us ever closer to nuclear annihilation. This is a most unusual election season. While the media focuses on Georgia and Nevada […]
By Joseph Gerson This article is Part II in a series originally published in Common Dreams. Read Part I here. As she accepted the Democratic nomination, Harris promised to maintain the world’s “most lethal” military and ensure that “America—not China—wins the competition for the 21st […]
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