Peace and Disarmament

Kai Bird, co-author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning book on which Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer movie is based, issued the following statement endorsing a bill by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), the…

Olga Karatch, journalist and human and women’s rights activist fled Belarus to avoid being arrested on charges of terrorism, for which she is facing a death sentence. Lithuania, where she has taken refuge, has rejected her request for political asylum…

Nonviolent Alternatives. For technical reasons, we were unable to publish this article on the 78th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima by the US military. We do so ten days later, remembering that hundreds of survivors…

The military-political regime in Kiev has shown that it is prepared to do anything, including sacrificing its population, in order to prove to its Western curators that it can fulfil the plans laid out by Washington and Brussels. This is…

The measures to restrict the freedom of Yurii Sheliazhenko, secretary of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement, have already been taken. He cannot leave his home at night and he has been obliged not to communicate with the witnesses of the investigation.…

A majority of Americans would be against sending more funding to support Ukraine in its war against Russia, according to a poll conducted by CNN in July of this year. In fact, 55% of those interviewed believe that Congress should…

A presidium for dialogue with Niger and against any military intervention in the country took place yesterday in Rome in front of the embassy of Nigeria, the president-in-office of Cedeao (Economic Organisation of West African States), which with respect to…

The theme of this year’s convention is Choose Peace: Stand Up! Speak Out! Registration Keynote Speakers Clare Daly (MEP) Irish politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Ireland for the Dublin constituency since July 2019. Jeffrey…

August 15 [2023], a judge in Kiev found Yurii Sheliazhenko “guilty” of having fought against the war and sentenced him. Yurii Sheliazhenko is a Gandhian pacifist and university researcher. For a year he had been spied on by the Ukrainian…

A new chapter in the court case involving Yurii Sheliazhenko, the Ukrainian pacifist leader accused of “justifying the Russian war of aggression,” in essence of being a “friend of Putin [is starting].” On Monday, Aug. 14 [,2023], he was due…