Nuclear weapons and the Global South in the changing world – Anuradha Chenoy
Notes on talk before the International Peace Bureau, the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security, and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.
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Boston Suburbs Gather to Support Gaza
On Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023, concerned people from many of Boston’s suburbs gathered for a Gaza ceasefire rally in Watertown Square. Excellent and deeply informed speeches were given by Assaf Kfoury of Boston University and Abby Yanow of Jewish Voices for Peace. They are pictured here along with CPDCS board member Paul Shannon. Speeches from the … Read more
The Gaza and Ukraine Wars: Recent Developments, Geopolitical Implications, and Paths to Greater Peace & Justice with Phyllis Bennis and Anatol Lieven
In what has been described as one of the most informative webinars ever, Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies and Anatol Lieven of the Quincy Institute brought us up to date on the Gaza and Ukraine wars’ background and developments and about ways toward greater peace and justice. Recorded October 24, 2023
Joseph Gerson on Gaza & Ukraine Wars, Asian Common Security
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
Peter Beinart and Moral and Strategic Clarity Midst the Gaza War
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
Contexts & Implications of the Gaza War – Phyllis Bennis, Chas Freeman, & Joseph Gerson
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
Statement on the Israeli-Hamas War
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
September 12 Webinar Report Back from South Korea and Japan
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
Joseph Gerson’s Sept. 17 Boston Globe Letter to the Editor Urging U.S.-China Common Security Diplomacy
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
Biden’s Trilateral Camp David Summit Advanced Preparation for War with China
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