July 20, 2024 Accidental war With thermonuclear bomb And “launched on warning”? Or preemptive strike Against Many enemies We can take our pick. Annihilation With grave damage to the earth! There’s no going back. Oppenheimer’s? No: It’s Teller’s hydrogen bomb – Worse […]
In Greenfield, nearly forty activists gathered in the city’s common at 9 am on Tuesday to honor those killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and demand an end to nuclear weapons globally. Central at the rally were banners that stretched more than ten feet in the […]
By Hoffmann the Organizer Readers have been responding to my grim articles on war and climate with demands of “What would you do, then, Captain Bummer”? A fair question and one deserving a robust answer. First a recap of our story so far. Yes, we […]
Southeastern Massachusetts has become the center of vigorous pushback against sand mining, a globally occurring extractive and environmentally degrading process. Despite being major stakeholders in the issue, locals have largely been kept in the dark by sand mining companies. Plymouth’s finite natural resources are being […]
by Soren Anderson-Flynn Despite the political chaos surrounding him, I wish Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could have taken the time during his trip to the United States to visit Northampton, Massachusetts. If he had, Netanyahu would have found a vibrant college town with bustling […]
Originally published in Pressenza by Joseph Gerson UN Secretary-General Guterres warns that “Humanity is on a knife’s edge. The risk of nuclear weapons being used has reached heights not seen since the Cold War.” New Cold War bloc systems have reemerged with the “lattice-like” network […]
Originally published in Common Dreams. by Tom Valovic July 18, 2024 will go down in history books as an event that shook up the world in a unique way. It gave the mass of humanity a pointed wake-up call about the inherent fragility of the technological systems […]
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