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Joseph Gerson

Joseph Gerson

Dr. Joseph Gerson is President of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security and co-president International Peace Bureau. His books include With Hiroshima Eyes: Atomic War, Nuclear Extortion and Moral Imagination and Empire and the Bomb: How the U.S. Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World.

CPDCS Statement Opposing U.S. and Israeli Attacks on Iran

The United States under Donald Trump has become a rogue warrior state. One needn’t be a supporter of the misnamed Islamic government of Iran to condemn the Trump-Israeli catastrophic regime change aggression against Iran in violation of the U.S. constitution…

The Hour is Getting Late: Report from the United States

“Report from America” to Gesuikyo’s annual international conference on the anniversary of the Bikini H-bombing By Joseph Gerson, Friends, Battered by U.S. and Russian aggressions, the survival of the U.N., its charter, and international law are in jeopardy. Expiration of New…

85 Seconds to Midnight and Challenging New Start Treaty Likely Demise

Moving “Gestapo Greg” Bovino out of Minneapolis was a Trump administration costume change as the assaults on constitutional democracy and immigrants grind on in each of our communities. Meanwhile, multiple crises, from the climate emergency to nuclear weapons, increased poverty,…

The U.S. & China: Competition, Conflagration, Or Coexistence               

Humanity finds itself in the inherent conflict between rising and declining powers that has often, as in World Wars I and II, culminated in catastrophic wars. The U.S.-Chinese trade war undermines their economies and jeopardizes their peoples’ and world security.…

New Sheriff Astride the Globe: Trump’s Sovereigntist Imperialism

Days after November’s Trump/MAGA election victory, a senior Russian diplomat asked how great a historical transformation it signaled. Was it the equivalent of the Civil War, or the Depression era New Deal? Soon it was clear. Jamille Bouie wrote in…

The Would-Be Dictator’s Foreign and Military Commitments

On November 6, many of us woke to the reality that our nation is even more corrupt and dangerous than we had realized as a majority of  U.S. voters embraced and voted for a fascist, racist, convicted rapist and felon,…

In a Perilous Time: Nuclear Dangers, Politics, and the New Cold War

UN Secretary-General Guterres warns that “Humanity is on a knife’s edge. The risk of nuclear weapons being used has reached heights not seen since the Cold War.”  New Cold War bloc systems have reemerged with the “lattice-like” network of U.S.…

Joseph Gerson’s talk during the International Peace Bureau Ukraine Week

Week of Global Mobilization for Peace in Ukraine (WGMPU) from Saturday 30th September to Sunday –  8th October 2023. The common goal is to call for an immediate ceasefire and peace negotiations to end the war in Ukraine. During the webinar, Joseph Gerson…

A Speech By Joseph Gerson Before The World Conference Against A & H Bombs

Friends, It is a delight and privilege to rejoin the World Conference. Given the increasingly dangerous great power confrontations and accelerating nuclear arms races, as well as the unique opportunity that the TPNW affords us, our collaborations are more important…

More Than 1,000 u.s. War Opponents Express Solidarity With Russian War Resisters and Urge Negotiations

Representatives of major U.S. peace organizations announced today that more than 1,000 Americans who opposed the U.S. wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq have signed a statement expressing solidarity and support with Russians who are opposing the Ukraine War both…

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