Tag: Peace Advocate September / October 2021 - Page 2

Walking the Walk for a Moratorium on Prison & Jail Construction

September 22, 2021 Claire Gosselin

by Claire Gosselin Governor Baker has incarceration on his mind. He envisions a new women’s prison to replace MCI Framingham to the tune of $50 million. The state has chosen the HDR Architecture firm to design it. They promise to make a nice “trauma informed” […]

Biden’s Nuclear Weapons Commitments: Dangerous Continuities

September 21, 2021 Joseph Gerson

Originally published in Common Dreams by Joseph Gerson In the dangerous Trump era, the Pentagon pronounced that “There is no higher priority for national defense” than to “replace [the country’s] strategic nuclear triad and sustain the warheads it carries.” The estimated cost for upgrading the […]

Climate Change Cooperation Cannot be an “Oasis” in U.S.-China Relations

September 15, 2021 Michael Klare

by Michael Klare President Biden’s special envoy on climate change, former Secretary of State John Kerry, traveled to Tianjin, China on August. 31 and Sept. 1 to meet with Chinese officials on joint efforts to slow the pace of global warming. While in Tianjin, Kerry […]

The Violence of US Information Operations

September 8, 2021 Ross Caputi

by Ross Caputi I began studying the Anglo-American invasion and occupation of Iraq shortly after my unit’s deployment to Anbar Province ended and I was discharged from the US Marine Corps. I was an infantry soldier during the second siege of Fallujah in November of […]