6 Mar, 2023
No Exit: Two Ukraine Peace Proposals Going Nowhere
No Exit: Two Ukraine Peace Proposals Going Nowhere by Mel Gurtov 1011 words Two Very Different Paths to Peace Two...
6 Mar, 2023
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...
12 Feb, 2023
Homage to Russian War Resisters
Homage to Russian War Resisters by Lawrence S. Wittner 968 words Given the Russian government’s brutal repression of dissent, the...
15 Jan, 2023
Ukraine’s Future: Peace Through War?
Ukraine’s Future: Peace Through War? by Mel Gurtov 1031 words Hopes and Realities Ukraine’s President Zelensky had a fairly successful...
12 Jan, 2023
George W. Bush’s Putin Problem: or Putin’s Bush Problem?
V. Putin’s war of aggression against Ukraine is a war crime. Although the “NATO expansion” and apparent effort to encircle Russia on its western border with new NATO members despite the promise of the Bush I administration not to do so, may be considered on the issue of appropriate punishment, it is no defense to the crime.
16 Dec, 2022
Leaving a cheap crook behind
What could Biden be thinking, trading a mere basketball player for the "Merchant of Death" while leaving a Marine behind?
23 Nov, 2022
China, Russia, and the Bomb
Even international alliances can unravel when nations confront the insanity of a nuclear holocaust.
30 Oct, 2022
Hammers are for building, not harming
Antifa comes swarming into the street, hurling full soda cans at cops and at windows, believing they alone have the right to "burn it down," ala Pol Pot, start over, Year Zero.
19 Oct, 2022
Let’s defuse nuclear war, together
Sixty years ago this week, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, I was in my mother’s womb. My young, sweet mom was terrified she’d never get to see me be born, as the world teetered on the brink of unimaginable calamity. It’s bewildering to me that nuclear crises bookend my life at this point.
17 Oct, 2022
Shame and hope
The primitive stupidity of the global “security” system in which we continue to drift 60 years after the Cuban crisis is beyond shameful.
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.
13 Oct, 2022
Putin’s on the ballot
Putin’s on the ballot by Tom H. Hastings 478 words Really, everything’s on the ballot. We hear that reproductive rights...
5 Oct, 2022
My zero-sum hummers
I adore "my" hummingbirds, arguably the best in-close flyers in the world, with reaction times so fast they zip in next to angry defensive bees to score a sip of sugar water despite the bees coming at them in a bee fury that would dissuade virtually any other critter, including me.
30 Sep, 2022
Predictions of a Ukraine victory are premature
Something extraordinary is happening in the course of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Putin is taking a hit from all sides. Opposition to the war is coming from home and abroad.
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,