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Finding Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the Oppenheimer Film

March 12, 2024 Joseph Gerson

By Joseph Gerson This article was originally published in Common Dreams. Since the first reviews of the Oppenheimer film appeared, a question has been floating in the ether: Why don’t we see substantial images of the destruction and victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki A-Bombs? […]

Ceasefire Now! End the occupation! No more money for Israel’s crimes! March in downtown Boston, Dec 17, 2023. MAPA photo/ Cole Harrison

Gaza Cease-Fire Now! No Wider War

January 17, 2024 Joseph Gerson

by Joseph Gerson Originally published in Common Dreams. The genocide must end. We must not sleepwalk into a catastrophic regional Middle East War. The decimation of Gaza continues because the United States refuses to demand a ceasefire and provides weapons that have transformed Gaza from an […]

Past Time for Ukraine Ceasefire and Negotiations

October 23, 2023 Joseph Gerson

by Joseph Gerson This piece was originally published in Common Dreams. These remarks were presented at the Peace in Ukraine rally in Bostson, Massachusetts on Saturday, September 30, 2023. This won’t be easy. This won’t be fun. But it must be done. This week marks […]

Hiroshima, Tectonic Geopolitical Change, and The Light of Hiroshima

August 6, 2023 Joseph Gerson

Presented at the World Conference Against A & H Bombs, Hiroshima, Japan, Aug. 6, 2023. Friends, It is a delight and privilege to rejoin the World Conference. Given the increasingly dangerous great power confrontations and accelerating nuclear arms races, as well as the unique opportunity […]

Very Rev. Amy McCreath, dean of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul (Episcopal), speaks for a Christmas Truce in Ukraine, St. Paul's steps, Dec. 19, 2022 / MAPA photo

Ukraine, the Deepening Euro-Atlantic Crisis, and Common Security Possibilities

May 21, 2023 Joseph Gerson

by Joseph Gerson Originally published in Common Dreams Editor’s note: The following is based on a speech—entitled “17th Strategy Conference of the Cooperation for Peace: Our Security Can Only Work Together: Ukraine, Russia, and Europe in a Multipolar World”—delivered in Hamburg, Germany on April 28 to […]

Mel King, Peace Leader

March 29, 2023 Joseph Gerson

by Joseph Gerson and Cole Harrison Massachusetts Peace Action honors Mel King, leader of the peace and justice movement who died at his home on March 28. (Boston Globe obituary) We cannot win peace without the participation of large numbers of people from every walk […]

Australia agreed to purchase four Virginia-class submarines similar to the USS Indiana, pictured at Groton, Connecticut, September 25, 2020. (U.S. Navy Photo by John Narewski)

AUKUS Nuclear Submarines: Accelerating the Sleepwalking to War With China

March 23, 2023 Joseph Gerson

by Joseph Gerson The March 13 Biden-Albanese-Sunak summit in San Diego to demonstrate alliance solidarity and to sign the multi-billion AUKUS (Australia, United Kingdom, US) nuclear submarine deal accelerated the pace of the U.S. and China sleepwalking toward catastrophic war. Compounding the dangers that came […]