3 Feb, 2022
Somewhere out there in the geopolitical wilderness of Eastern Europe, two powerful beasts stalk each other. One of them is good. One of them is evil. The future of all life on this planet is at stake...
1 Feb, 2022
I've been in Belize with my partner so we can spend time with her son and grandchildren who live there. The pandemic had kept everyone apart for a couple of years. ..
29 Jan, 2022
We have grown numb to the world resting on a razor’s edge of destruction. Climate catastrophe, pandemics, cyberwar and endless wars seem “normal” by now...
18 Jan, 2022
The corporate-military-political complex that continues to renew the arsenals of the nine nuclear nations represents a colossal failure of imagination.
18 Jan, 2022
On January 3rd of this year, the five nuclear-armed states with the largest nuclear arsenals issued a joint statement declaring that they “consider the avoidance of war between Nuclear-Weapon States...
14 Jan, 2022
Guess what? I direct the following insight to, among others, the U.S. Congress, which annually and without comment, with only a few objectors, passes a trillion-dollar (and growing) military budget, by far the largest such budget on Planet Earth...
24 Nov, 2021
The less than ideal outcome of the latest climate talks in Scotland reminds us of an inconvenient truth: as yet there is no human authority on Earth powerful enough to enforce the preservation of the commons.
5 Aug, 2021
This week we again observe the anniversaries of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during WW II - the only time nuclear weapons were used against human targets...
24 Jul, 2021
After a war has ended, historians, elected officials, and faith leaders, no less than the people involved, often raise doubts over whether the outcomes were worth the many horrific costs...
16 Jul, 2021
One of these days, something will give — the rich, the powerful will suddenly look around cluelessly.
25 Jun, 2021
Despite the best efforts of the Israeli government under Benjamin Netanyahu to disrupt the nuclear talks with Iran by attacking Iran’s nuclear computer network, the news out of Geneva is that a new agreement is close to being signed.
19 May, 2021
Each Spring our country funds its priorities for the coming year. This annual process gives us the opportunity for renewal as we address our critical needs...
2 May, 2021
The recent announcement by the British government that it plans a 40 percent increase in the number of nuclear weapons it possesses highlights the escalation of the exceptionally dangerous and costly nuclear arms race.
23 Apr, 2021
North Korea is rattling America’s cage again. It sent a reminder call when it recently fired off multiple short-range missiles after denouncing...
28 Mar, 2021
Given the fact that nuclear war means the virtual annihilation of life on earth, it’s remarkable that many people continue to resist...
