Peace and Disarmament

As a Palestinian born in the 21st century, I am the generational product of Nakba survivors and the trauma that came with it. As distant as it may seem, I am only two generations removed from the 1948 Catastrophe of…

So long as the US is willing to accept Iran spinning this as an unprecedented strategic defeat of the “Great Satan”, it’ll arguably be able to advance its actual interests much more robustly as was explained, all while giving Iran…

Interview with Professor Yakov M. Rabkin Trained as a chemist, Yakov M. Rabkin, who earned a Ph.D. (1972) from the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, left the Soviet Union in 1973. After a brief stay in Vienna and Israel,…

Nonviolence as a humanitarian doctrine in the face of armed power “Modern civilization has managed to connect continents, accelerate intelligence, and master matter. Yet it still cannot fully master fear, the tribe, and the ancestral impulse to destroy the other…

Empires rise and fall. They do not last forever. Imperial declines follow a gradual shifting of the economic tides, but are also punctuated and defined by critical tipping points. There are many differences between the Suez Crisis in 1956 and the US…

by Sheikh Mohammad Arif (Dhaka Bureau) The anniversary of the International Humanist Movement was celebrated (4th May) in Bangladesh through various programs. On May 9th, the Community for Human Development (CHD), Bangladesh Chapter and Humanist Society, Bangladesh jointly organized a…

AN INVITATION TO JOIN  Today, the world is facing a multitude of overlapping and mutually reinforcing crises – an increase in militarization, new wars and violent conflicts, the continuation of long-standing disputes, the climate crisis, growing social and economic inequalities,…

According to a widespread view, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Israel’s invasion of Gaza are two comparable military interventions. It is argued that these two wars constitute two flagrant violations of international law. Putin and Netanyahu are evenly accused…

Read Part 1 here A short-term occupation for one and a longer-term one for the other In Ukraine, the popular uprising of 2013 and 2014 was facilitated by aid provided by the United States (tents, buses, food, entertainment). The coup…

In 1870, Julia Ward Howe penned her “Mother’s Day Proclamation,” calling for peace. Her words still ring with truth, calling us not to raise our children to kill another mother’s child but rather to gather together to “promote the alliance…