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RIP Jim Wallace, Antiwar and Solidarity Activist

August 13, 2021 Cole Harrison

James E. Wallace (Jim), 85 of Cambridge, Massachusetts, passed away on July 31, 2021 at his Houston residence, following a battle with an aggressive form of prostate cancer. Born September 8, 1935 in Reidsville, North Carolina, son of the late Earl Francis Wallace and Virginia […]

Joseph Gerson spoke at Watertown's Hiroshima/Nagasaki commemoration, Aug 8, 2021. Virginia Pratt photo

Nuclear Disarmament is More Urgent than Ever

August 9, 2021 Joseph Gerson

by Joseph Gerson Remarks delivered at the Watertown Hiroshima/Nagasaki Commemoration, August 8, 2021 (August 9 in Nagasaki) Friends, The A-bombings , 76 years ago, were crimes humanity. They were indiscriminate, unnecessary, and ushered in an era in which human survival is constantly threated by accident, […]

Paper Lanterns and Peace Cranes

August 3, 2021 Maryellen Kurkulos

by Gail Tipton In May 2018, I saw a documentary film called Paper Lanterns. It tells the story of Shigeaki Mori’s research to identify and honor 12 American soldiers who had died when the first atomic bomb devastated Hiroshima, Japan at 8:15 a.m., August 6, […]

Hiroshima/ Nagasaki Week in Massachusetts 2021

August 2, 2021 Cole Harrison

August 2-9, 2021 • Events Calendar Why observe Hiroshima/Nagasaki Week? Read our call to action!

No First Use: Decrease the Danger of Nuclear War

July 31, 2021 Cole Harrison

Ever since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, the danger of nuclear war has remained alarmingly high. Part of the problem is that the US has a dangerous and short-sighted policy of making nuclear threats to achieve foreign policy objectives. Daniel Ellsberg lists 25 explicit […]

Negotiate with Iran, Not Its Caricature

July 21, 2021 Tom Huf

by Tom Huf Since April 2021, and after six rounds of Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) negotiation in Vienna that started with optimism for a speedy agreement before the Iranian June 18 elections, progress has slowed. There is now speculation about possible failure to […]

Berta Cáceres in the Rio Blanco region of western Honduras in 2015. (coolloud, Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Migration as Resistance

July 21, 2021 Aviva Chomsky

by Aviva Chomsky Originally published in TomDispatch.com with additional photos from Consortium News Earlier this month, a Honduran court found David Castillo, a U.S.-trained former Army intelligence officer and the head of an internationally financed hydroelectric company, guilty of the 2016 murder of celebrated Indigenous activist Berta […]