Peace and Disarmament

With the war in Ukraine now in its 10th month, Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Joe Biden have both expressed openness to peace talks to end the fighting, as have leaders in France, Germany and elsewhere. This comes…

On this show, we speak with Diane Sare, an anti-war activist and the only candidate against nuclear weapons, running for U.S. Senate in New York State.  She is looking to break the Political duopoly in the US and push back…

Disdaining Diplomacy, Seeking Victory Prefatory Note: This is the third iteration of an essay on the evolution of the Ukraine War, the earlier two versions published online in Transcend Media Service (TMS) and CounterPunch. The essential argument remains: war-mongering geopolitics…

The Biden Administration’s recent National Security Strategy announced that the post-Cold War order is now history, and that the yet to be named new era is defined by military, economic, and technological competition to shape the new order. NATO’s expansion…

“Pity the nation whose people are sheep And whose shepherds mislead them Pity the nation whose leaders are liars Whose sages are silenced And whose bigots haunt the airwaves Pity the nation that raises not its voice Except to praise…

People of the hill forest, an abode of the Mongoloid ethnic Adivasis refuse to celebrate the historic signing of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Peace Accord on December 2, which brought to an end a protracted autonomy-seeking insurgency for more…

Webinar on Dec 14, 2022 04:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada) Registration Reiner Braun is a leading European peace advocate and until recently, the Executive Director of the International Peace Bureau. He recently returned from a series of…

Presentation at World Anti-Imperialist Conference Ajamu Baraka, Member of Secretariat, U.S. Peace Council Hanoi, Vietnam, November 25, 2022 History demands: Turn Imperialist wars into wars against imperialism Comrades, brothers, and sisters, As we gather today in Hanoi, Vietnam, less than…

To end the war in Ukraine, peace champions must win the war of ideas. This requires tackling two often-repeated claims that serve as obstacles to a diplomatic agreement between Ukraine and Russia. The first problematic claim is that the war…

The Left must demand an immediate Cease-Fire and a return to the Negotiating Table By David Mandel The complex nature of the war in Ukraine and especially of the question of the relative responsibility of the different parties has made…