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New Hampshire Peace Action Webinar, Oct. 23, 2023 Although the Ukraine war seems to be deadlocked, the world situation is unusually fluid, uncertain, and dangerous. Biden’s National Security Strategy stated that “the post-Cold War era is definitively over and a competition is underway between the major powers to shape what comes next.” Fiona Hill, former … Read more
Friends, While there is opportunity as well as danger in a crisis, the Gaza War is setting back possibilities for the development of mutual respect and peace between the Israelis and Palestinians for many years. The pain of mass murder, for that is what war is, has and will devastate both peoples for years to … Read more
On October 10, within days of the Hamas massacre, the Arabic Hour invited Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies and former U.S. Ambassador Charles Freeman, now of the Watson Institute at Brown University, to discuss the consequences and implications of the Gaza war. Packed with cutting-edge analysis and information about new developments, it … Read more
The Campaign for Peace, Disarmament, and Common Security calls for an immediate ceasefire in the Hamas-Israel War. War is never the answer. We condemn the brutal and indiscriminate killing of civilians on all sides and the taking of hostages. Both are morally unacceptable and severe violations of International Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law. … Read more
In late July, Joseph Gerson participated in a Peace MOMO common security conference, 70th anniversary of the Korean Armistice events, and visited communities which have been devastated by U.S. military bases. He and Margaret Engel of Peace Action New York State participated in the annual World Conference against A- & H- Bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. … Read more
Dear Editor In his Sept. 10 Ideas piece, “Too often, military defense comes off as offense,” Stephen Kinzer warns that the United States and China are locked in an increasingly dangerous and confrontational arms race, creating a “security dilemma.” It is, as political scientist Graham Allison has warned of a “Thucydides Trap,” the inevitable tensions between rising and declining … Read more
The summit’s much ballyhooed commitment to nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation serves more to manufacture consent for preparations for nuclear war than to reduce nuclear dangers. Meeting in a summit at Camp David on August 18, President Joe Biden, President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea, and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan posed for photos that … Read more
Joseph Gerson’s August 25, 2023, speech at the Commons: Peace and Security for All Conference in Seoul, Republic of Korea.
An article by Joseph Gerson on increasing military tensions across the Taiwan Strait and in the South China/West Philippine Sea.
A speech by Joseph Gerson before the World Conference Against A & H Bombs.