Peace and Disarmament

Allies in Europe asked me for a few words from the United States on challenges for peace in these trumpy times. Here they are. The challenges in working for peace in the United States and the world, during Trump times,…

I know, I know, foreign military bases are spreading like a disease, and governments are openly mocking the rule of law. But it’s hard to aim without a target. So, I’ve drafted a target. This is a quick initial draft…

DECEPTION’s meaning is “the act of causing someone to accept as true or valid what is false and invalid.”  Tamara Lorincz (CWPJN) and Pierre Jasmin (Les Artistes pour la Paix) are rightly offended by the unacceptable G7’s March 14 declaration :…

The last thing that Trump wants is for the US to be drawn back into another war with Russia after “Pivoting (back) to Asia”, let alone a direct one instead of the proxy war that they’ve recently resolved to end,…

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…