Peace and Disarmament

Can someone be imprisoned because he does not want to participate in a war? Can someone be imprisoned because he refuses to participate in the murder of other human beings? Yes, one can. According to the Ternopil Court of Appeals…

No to Trump’s VA Cuts, No to Genocide in Gaza, No to Mass Deportation! Susan Schnall, national president of Veterans For Peace, will be in Washington, DC this Friday, March 14, to speak at a noontime rally being organized by…

No War with Iran.  Attacking militarily would be an egregious act displaying insanity.  Three days after Pres. Trump took another page from Netanyahu’s threats of military action regarding Iran’s legal nuclear program, both the Russian and China’s Navies sailed into…

When the “power system” is criticized, a quick counterargument is often “conspiracy theories”. In relation to what is happening right now on the political-democratic stage of the Western countries, no one needs to fear this counterargument anymore, because what has…

The Third Meeting of States Parties (3MSP) to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) concluded successfully on March 7 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York with a strong political declaration rejecting nuclear weapons, challenging deterrence…

It’s with a very heavy heart that I watch Europe imitate the militarism of the United States, moving massive resources from human and environmental needs to weapons, celebrating proposals from good liberal civic groups to steal money from Russia and…

The author is a renowned journalist, political scientist, and professor of journalism at New York University. He headed The New Republic magazine and is the author of four books. Named among the hundred “global thinkers” by Foreign Affairs, he is…

The recent assembly of European leaders in London, orchestrated by UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron, was intended to showcase a unified front in addressing the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. However, beneath the veneer of solidarity…

US President Donald Trump surprised the region last month by suggesting that the nearly 2 million Palestinians living in Gaza be resettled in other countries, including Egypt and Jordan. Trump proposed that the United States assume ownership of the Gaza…

Itamar Greenberg was released  after spending 197 days in prison—the longest imprisonment for an objector in two decades. The Israeli army determined he had displayed “bad behavior.” He first refused to serve in August 2024 and was subsequently sentenced to…