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WARNING: Our Brains Are a Battlefield

March 11, 2022 Jeff Klein

by Jeff Klein Originally published in the Dorchester People for Peace newsletter, March 11, 2022 In January 2021, NATO published the final draft of a lengthy study it called Cognitive Warfare. Its intent is to explore the potential for manipulating minds—those of others, our own—beyond anything […]

Stop the War in Ukraine

March 5, 2022 Catherine Henning

For Immediate Release: Contacts: Cole Harrison, cole@masspeaceaction.org, 617-466-9274 & Louise Coleman, 617-817-6706 When: Sunday, March 6th, 2022 at 1pm EST Where: Park Street Station in Boston, MA Stop the War in Ukraine. Russian Troops Out. No to NATO expansion. A coalition of organizations in Massachusetts, including Massachusetts […]

NATO Enlargement Map. The Economist, Jan 8th 2022

Stop the War in Ukraine. Russian Troops Out. No to NATO expansion

March 1, 2022 Cole Harrison

The war in Ukraine is a disaster for the people of Ukraine and Russia, and a grave threat to every person on the planet. Massachusetts Peace Action condemns the Russian invasion and calls for an immediate and comprehensive ceasefire, the speedy withdrawal of all Russian […]

Victory Day march, St. Petersburg. Photo: St. Petersburg Guided Tours

We must make a moral about face, our only hope

March 1, 2022 John Schuchardt

by John Schuchardt History, context, and geography are essential for understanding. I recommend the perspectives of leading Veterans for Peace members Bruce Gagnon (Keep Space for Peace) and Regis Tremblay films (living now for 2 years in Yalta, Crimea) both available on Web and […]

US Push for Ukraine to Join NATO Reflects Arrogance

February 28, 2022 Peter Kakos

by Peter Kakos What continues to amaze me is the arrogance of our US push for Ukraine to join the NATO alliance. Didn’t anyone in high places acknowledge that doing so would be the equivalent to having Canada join the Russian Federation? Would our response […]

The red carpet. NATO officials in Kiev, April 2021. (NATO photo.)

My appeal to the Peace Movement

February 27, 2022 Ann Frisch

by Ann Frisch My appeal to the Peace Movement: goal is to defuse so we have time to talk Fifteen years of being trained in nonpartisanship as an unarmed civilian protector, I can spot a partisan statement without a conscious thought. But the use of […]

President John F. Kennedy delivering the commencement address at American University, June 10, 1963. Photo: JFK Library

Approaching the Current World Crisis in a Spirit of Peace

February 25, 2022 E. Martin Schotz, MD

Anyone who is seriously concerned about the current war in the Ukraine and wants to contribute to peace needs to carefully consider how the world came to the point it is in today. In this process our priority must be to understand in what way […]