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Capitalist Crisis, Radical Opportunity

August 20, 2021 Valentine Moghadam

by Valentine Moghadam Contribution to the Great Transition Initiative’s Forum: Can Human Solidarity Globalize? Richard Falk’s eloquent essay asks us to make the leap from “the politics of the possible” to “a politics of impossibility” by imagining and crafting a “moral epistemology to achieve responsible anthropocentrism” […]

Give Aid to Haiti via Haitian Grassroots Popular Organizations

August 19, 2021 Yoav Elinevsky

by Yoav Elinevsky 2010 Earthquake and Aid On January 12, 2010, a devastating earthquake struck Port-au-Prince, Haiti. It caused the death of 200,00 people, wounded 300,000 and left 1.5 million homeless. A massive relief and recovery effort was launched, and billions of dollars were collected for that […]

Hiroshima/Nagasaki Week 2021 – Recap in Photos

August 18, 2021 Jack Trapanick

In solidarity with the global grassroots “Peace Wave” initiated by Gensuikyo and as a testament to the growing demand for nuclear disarmament, peace activists across the Commonwealth and in Rhode Island held some two dozen events marking the 76th anniversary of the atomic bombings of […]

Learning the Lessons of Afghanistan

August 18, 2021 Cole Harrison

Massachusetts Peace Action is not a newcomer to the issues raised by the Afghanistan war. We helped organize our first of many protests against the Afghanstan war on September 12, 2001, before it started. U.S. military intervention in Afghanistan, though “covert”, began in 1978. The progressive, secular […]

Western State Terrorism: Revisited 30 Years Later

August 18, 2021 Jack Trapanick

by Jack Trapanick In 1991, Alexander George, Noam Chomsky, and eight other intellectuals published Western State Terrorism: a collection of essays defining and exploring the mechanisms by which the concept of “terrorism” has been strictly controlled to: a) overemphasize the threat of attacks against the […]

Justice for Haiti: Fanmi Lavalas Seeks a Sali Piblik [Public Safety] Government in Haiti

August 18, 2021 Yoav Elinevsky

by Yoav Elinevsky Lavalas (Creole for flood or avalanche), later also a political party called Fanmi Lavalas, emerged as a mass movement during the 1980s struggle to free Haiti from the brutal Duvalier dictatorships. In two landslide elections in 1990 and 2000, it carried Jean-Bertrand […]

The Taiwan Conundrum

August 18, 2021 Jim Hassett

by Jim Hassett Beijing is irrevocably committed to regaining control of Taiwan, an island about 100 miles off China’s coast. But the US and its allies are committed to the opposite: helping Taiwan maintain its status as an independent county. Something’s got to give. To […]