Peace and Disarmament

Everybody Turn Out for a Day of Peace and Solidarity in New York By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/everybody-turn-out-day-peace-and-solidarity-new-york What happens when there are endless wars accompanied by militarized policing, spreading racism, erosion of civil rights, and concentration of wealth, but the…

Are We Willing to Pay the Price for Peace? By David Swanson http://worldbeyondwar.org/are-we-willing-to-pay-the-price-for-peace/ Premiering around the end of March will be one of the best films I’ve ever seen on peace activism: Paying the Price for Peace produced by Bo…

Like the Nazgul, in Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings, the nine nuclear-armed states wield a power to destroy us all.  Will Frodo Baggins (in the form of the Republic of the Marshall Islands) a mild-mannered hobbit that never had cause…

  From Joseph Gerson (abolition-caucus email group) Yesterday he was in Japan, where he marched with 2,000 Japanese peace activists and Hibakusha to the tomb of Kuboyama Aikichi, the first of the crew members of the Fifth Lucky Dragon’s to…

Human Wrongs Watch By Baher Kamal* 29 February 2016 (IPS) –  When the tsunami of panic around Iran’s potential capability to develop nuclear weapons reached its peak some three years ago, a combined diplomatic, media campaign warning that a Gulf…

We are happy to send you a few of the latest essentially important articles on transnational affairs – reaching from the individual through the state and region to the world level – where others are still stuck in the inter-national…

Thousands braved the cold today to express their opposition to the renewal of Trident, the nuclear weapons system many deluded people believe will keep them ‘safe’. We are reminded of the the story of two men in a car, one…

The anti-US military base struggle in Okinawa, Japan MAKI KIMURA 13 February 2016 Not many people outside Japan have even heard of the place called Okinawa, a semi-tropical archipelago of numerous islands with unique and invaluable biodiversity situated in the…

By Rebecca Johnson on opendemocracy.net. With opposition to Trident growing, the British government has refused to join this week’s UN multilateral nuclear disarmament talks on practical measures to build global security without nuclear weapons. As hundreds of thousands gather to…

Five years ago In 2012 when it all started, an educated conflict analyst or otherwise conflict competent person would have said about the conflict in Syria that it was a very complex thing, caused by history, environment, traumas, external factors,…