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...
12 Feb, 2023
16 Jan, 2023
Collateral Damage and Other Slippery Slopes
Collateral Damage and Other Slippery Slopes by Derek Royden 480 words Published in: Bandera Bulletin, Beaumont Enterprise, The Newton Kansan,...
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,...
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.
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.
18 Dec, 2022
Planning for war crimes trials post-nuclear war
Threshold question: should we hold trials or join Joe Stalin like he proposed after WWII for Hitler and his Hit Men, and just lynch those responsible...
23 Nov, 2022
China, Russia, and the Bomb
Even international alliances can unravel when nations confront the insanity of a nuclear holocaust.
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.
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.
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.
4 Oct, 2022
Uvalde World?
Imagine the horror of the Uvalde school shooting parents waiting outside the school for the next shot. Like some grotesque experiment of Schrodinger’s Cat, they were suspended between death and life, as their children were inside, suspended between shots, in a bizarre state of uncertainty, at the whim of the shooter.
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 Aug, 2022
The dance of sympathy
In the White Mountains of New Hampshire, I recently joined a gathering of people highly concerned with a range of threats, from war to climate catastrophe and more.