Peace and Disarmament

In 2007, we requested Chomsky to sign the Europe for Peace declaration and to support the campaign to prevent the construction of the US Space Shield in the Czech Republic, a project strongly opposed by the vast majority of the…

We know that the possible evolution of the conflict in Ukraine depends on the involvement of the whole of society in terms of economic and human resources. There is talk of compulsory military conscription in many European and some Eastern…

World Without Wars and Without Violence A Coruña calls for a rally against the war in Ukraine next Friday, March 3rd, at 8pm at the Obelisk. We want to express our profound preoccupation about the increase of violence and the…

Having witnessed the devastating effects of US nuclear testing in his country, Tony de Brum, the Marshall Islands’ foreign minister, took the unprecedented step of bringing cases against the nine nuclear-weapon states before the International Court of Justice in 2014,…

There’s something irrational about President Biden’s knee-jerk dismissal of China’s 12-point peace proposal titled “China’s Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis.” By Medea Benjamin, Marcy Winograd, Wei Yu “Not rational” is how Biden described the plan that…

By Yurii Sheliazhenko, World BEYOND War, March 1, 2023 A speech at the webinar of the International Peace Bureau “365 Days of War in Ukraine: Prospects Towards Peace in 2023” (24 February 2023) Dear friends, greetings from Kyiv, capital of…

First Things First I have condemned and continue to condemn Russia’s violent invasion of Ukraine in the strongest possible terms. I ask that you keep this in mind as you read on. The Impending Fall of the “Fortress” Both the…

We are not at the 1-year anniversary of the war, as the Western governments and media claim. This is the 9-year anniversary of the war.  And that makes a big difference. By Jeffrey D. Sachs, Other News, March 1, 2023 The…

First published by Peace and Planet News. We’ve seen an amazing level of bipartisan support!” For what initiative do we hear this rare statement echoed about Congress today? The 15th Annual Nuclear Deterrence Summit, held once again at the Hyatt…

ICAN Executive Director Daniel Högsta, leaving the Spanish Congress of Deputies, said it is essential that parliamentarians press the Spanish government to abandon its hypocritical position and sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). He expressed optimism…