21 Oct, 2023
NATO’s Steadfast Noon Is Ready-made Doom
NATO’s Steadfast Noon Is Ready-made Doom by John LaForge 600 words On October 16, during the NATO-supplied, nuclear-armed hot war...
21 Oct, 2023
8 Sep, 2023
Evaluating Three Peace Plans for the Ukraine War
Evaluating Three Peace Plans for the Ukraine War by Mel Gurtov 1428 words Ideas about how to end the Ukraine...
26 Jun, 2023
Two Ways That the Ukraine War Could Have Been Prevented and Might Still Be Ended
Two Ways That the Ukraine War Could Have Been Prevented and Might Still Be Ended by Lawrence S. Wittner 959...
12 May, 2023
Facing the reality of a multi-polar world
Facing the reality of a multi-polar world by Derek Royden 719 words The past few months have brought with them...
23 Apr, 2023
Treaty Law Enforcer Endures Prison, While U.S. Nuclear Bombs in Europe Give Putin an Idea
Treaty Law Enforcer Endures Prison, While U.S. Nuclear Bombs in Europe Give Putin an Idea by John LaForge 677 words ...
5 Mar, 2023
Whose Red Lines?
Whose Red Lines? by Lawrence S. Wittner 964 words In the conflict-ridden realm of international relations, certain terms are particularly...
15 Jan, 2023
Ukraine’s Future: Peace Through War?
Ukraine’s Future: Peace Through War? by Mel Gurtov 1031 words Published in: Elizabethton Star, Counterpunch, My Johnstown Breeze, The Enterprise,...
26 Oct, 2022
Crossing the border into Ukraine
Anyone can see it coming, right there on mainstream news. Writers don’t need to warn of the worst because the worst is already unfolding in front of us all.
14 Oct, 2022
Can Russia’s use of a nuclear weapon in the Ukraine war be prevented?
President Biden surprised his top advisers along with everyone else when, at a fundraising event, he referred to “Armageddon” in the Ukraine war: Russia’s possible use of a nuclear weapon.
28 Sep, 2022
Breaking the Cycle of Insecurity
There is no doubt that the Russian invasion of Ukraine constitutes a criminal act of aggression. What lay behind this, however, is a complicated set of competing geopolitical ambitions and threat perceptions,
11 Aug, 2022
Unworthy victims?
The invasion of Ukraine and the war that it initiated led to widespread coverage of the struggles of ordinary people in a zone of conflict that’s surprisingly rare.
22 Jul, 2022
Deterrencelessness: Nuclear threats neither credible nor viable
Threatening to make attacks with nuclear weapons is known as “deterrence” when the United States does it, but it’s called madness, blackmail, or “terrorism” if Russia, China, or North Korea does.
6 Jul, 2022
The illusion of military dominance
United States military analysts love strategies and the theories behind them. The theories provide what appear to be perfectly reasonable and rational approaches to warfighting, even offering a sense of certainty about the outcome.
20 Jun, 2022
Putin attempts to justify the unjustifiable
The Russian government’s justifications for its war in Ukraine?the largest, most destructive military operation in Europe since World War II?are not persuasive.
16 Jun, 2022
The Case for Stopping the Ukraine-Russia War
The Ukraine-Russia war has raged for more than a hundred days. Now is a critical time to reflect on the case for people of good will to urge their leaders to end the war...