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Ukraine

The Multiplying Horror of Cluster Munitions Use in Ukraine

August 21, 2023 Richard Krushnic

by Richard Krushnic and Jacqueline King In a dismaying intensification of the Ukraine war, President Biden announced in early July that the US would begin sending cluster munitions to Ukraine. The decision met with widespread domestic and international opprobrium, including statements against cluster munitions by […]

Democracy

When the Military Owns the Ocean

August 18, 2023 Leo Middleton

By Leo Middleton When the submersible vessel known as the Titan, owned by the Oceangate company, imploded with five people on board on its way to exploring the wreckage of the Titanic off the coast of Newfoundland in June, the deadly accident was met with […]

Photo: Vicki Elson
Nuclear Disarmament

Three Days Inside the Doomsday Machine: The 2023 Deterrence Summit

April 14, 2023 Vicki Elson

by Vicki Elson This article was originally published as a three-part series on Pressenza.  What does the nuclear weapons industry talk about when they’re together? I spent three days with 530 government officials, politicians, and corporate contractors in a hotel basement to find out. The […]

Photo: Senior Airman John Ennis/Wikimedia Commons
Democracy

Here Come the Militarized Robots (But There Go Our Civil Liberties)

April 14, 2023 Tom Valovic

By Tom Valovic Many decades ago, when science fiction was still whimsical and fun rather than dark and dystopian, we saw robots appear in popular culture that were benign and friendly. Some may recall Robbie the Robot from the movie “Forbidden Planet” and, of course, […]

Soldiers dressed in army camouflage march in formation
No New Cold War

Militarized Japan and the Biden-Kishida Summit Signal Moment in the New Cold War

January 18, 2023 Joseph Gerson

By Joseph Gerson This article was originally published in Common Dreams. Across the Indo-Pacific, as well as in the escalating Ukraine War, humanity stands an accident or miscalculation away from the calamity of nuclear war. “Japan in December adopted a set of three security and […]

Peace and Climate

Veterans Protest Chase Bank to Link Militarism and Climate Change

November 16, 2022 Maryellen Kurkulos

(Boston) Veterans For Peace and allies will be demonstrating at JP Morgan Chase at the Downtown Crossing location on November 16th 2022. During COP27, while world leaders gather to make commitments to slowing climate devastation, VFP aims to draw attention to the financial support for […]

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