Tag: Peace Advocate January 2022

A family take bread and tea with milk, in northeast Afghanistan. Almost 23 million people, more than half the country, don’t know where their next meal is coming from. Photo: World Food Program/Jon Dumont

What we Must Do for Afghanistan

January 17, 2022 Cole Harrison

by Jean Athey I have a beloved 4-year-old granddaughter. If I lived in Afghanistan, my family would be facing the likelihood that she would die. My heart breaks in pieces to think of this. It is estimated that a million children under the age of […]

The W76-2 warhead, deployed during the Trump administration, will be launched aboard Trident II D5 missiles. Their guidance system was developed by Draper Labs of Cambridge, MA. (Ronald Gutridge/U.S. Navy)

The Nuclear Posture Review and the New P5 Statement

January 11, 2022 Steve Gallant

by Steve Gallant Possibly as early as this month, we will see the results of the Biden Administrations Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), which sets nuclear strategic policy for the US. Deliberations are behind closed doors. Bad signs so far include the removal of a presumed […]

A pro-Palestinian protest in midtown Manhattan amid the Israeli assault on Gaza, May 11, 2021. (Screen capture by the Times of Israel/Twitter)

The Politics of Israel and Palestine in the US: The State of Play in Congress and Beyond

January 7, 2022 Jeff Klein

by Jeff Klein The start of a new year is a good time to assess the possibilities of change in US policy toward Israel and Palestine. Almost 75 years since its foundation and the expulsion of 750,000 Arab residents in what Palestinians call the Nakba […]