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The nuclear powers are isolated within the international community

At a time when the risk of nuclear war seems to be rising in relation with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it is worth highlighting two recent major events related to nuclear weapons. International conferences were held in June 2022 in…

ICAN’s United Liaison Seth Shelden delivered the following statement to the 77th session of the First Committee of the United Nations General Assembly:

Distinguished delegates, As this Committee meets here in New York, the world faces what is widely agreed to be the highest risk of use of nuclear weapons in decades. Russia has invaded Ukraine and threatened to use nuclear weapons against…

War through the media and the role of journalism

Written from the perspective of a journalist who covered wars for 30 years in Latin America, the Balkans, the Middle East and Asia, the book “Truth is Bombed. Media and War through the eyes of a war correspondent” is an experiential…

Tulsi Gabbard dares to challenge Washington’s war machine

The former presidential candidate has shown that opposing regime-change policies is the one taboo that the ruling class won’t tolerate By Tony Cox Tulsi Gabbard’s rapid transformation from rising Democratic star to demonized outcast –  culminating this week with her…

Nuclear Extortion? Abolish Nuclear Weapons

In a moment of candor, President Biden told Democratic Party contributors the risk of nuclear “Armageddon” is the highest since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, when the Soviet Union installed nuclear missiles in Cuba, 90 miles from Florida. Referring to…

Because of you… the unacceptable

This week we have started an action to denounce on an international scale the irresponsibility, culpability and punishability of the main actors of global finance and the highest political leaders (heads of state and government) of the 20 ‘richest’ states…

2022: Nobel Committee Gets Peace Prize Wrong Yet Again

The Nobel Committee has yet again awarded a peace prize that violates the will of Alfred Nobel and the purpose for which the prize was created, selecting recipients who blatantly are not “the person who has done the most or best to…

The 18th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates will be held in Pyeongchang, South Korea

The 18th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates will be held for three days from 12 to 14 December in Pyeongchang, Gangwon Province, house of the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018. The Summit will be composed of diverse activities including panel discussions, forums, Nobel consultations, youth…

Chris Hedges Is Right: The Greatest Evil Is War

Chris Hedges’ latest book, The Greatest Evil Is War, is a terrific title and even better text. It doesn’t actually argue a case for war being a greater evil than other evils, but it sure does present evidence that war…

Launching of the 3rd World March for Peace and Nonviolence in Costa Rica

As we had stated in Madrid, at the end of the 2nd WM, that today 2/10/2022 we would announce the place for the beginning/end of the 3rd WM. Several countries such as Nepal, Canada and Costa Rica had informally expressed…

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