22 Mar, 2023
Second U.S. Citizen Headed to German Prison for Anti-Nuclear Weapons Actions
Second U.S. Citizen Headed to German Prison for Anti-Nuclear Weapons Actions by John LaForge 540 words While dread of nuclear...
22 Mar, 2023
7 Mar, 2023
Rise of the Mercs and a Race to the Bottom
Rise of the Mercs and a Race to the Bottom by Derek Royden 590 words The history of mercenary fighters–soldiers for hire...
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...
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...
18 Feb, 2023
A Diplomatic Surge is Needed to Prevent Endless War and Reduce the Nuclear Danger in Ukraine
A Diplomatic Surge is Needed to Prevent Endless War and Reduce the Nuclear Danger in Ukraine by Robert Moore 551...
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...
3 Jan, 2023
The Threat Business: Russia or China?
Dual Enemies For those in charge of US national security, the central challenge is identifying threats and determining how to counter them. The Biden administration has cast China and Russia, in that order, as the major threats to US security...
20 Dec, 2022
Choosing to live
A simple wish to be free from harm is not something that we are all granted at this time.
17 Nov, 2022
Shatter alley
Can a poem transcend fury — fury combined with helplessness? Can individual property owners join NATO?
13 Nov, 2022
The need for global unity: How world law can save us all
If humanity is to survive in the face of climate change, nuclear proliferation, and international political conflict, our best option is to adopt the mindset with which world leaders approached the enormous task of ensuring global peace following the horrors of World War II.
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.
12 Oct, 2022
Death by nationalism?
Death by nationalism? by Robert C. Koehler 911 words The game may be almost over. Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S.Davies put...
9 Oct, 2022
There is an alternative to war
The war in Ukraine provides us with yet another opportunity to consider what might be done about the wars that continue to ravage the world.
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,
7 Sep, 2022
My Mother the refugee
“Frances, do you remember the time we were all lined up against a wall to be shot?” I was in my early 20s and at an afternoon family gathering. As we sat on the patio chatting, my aunt – my mother’s older sister – asked my mother this question.