Hamas: The Islamist Golem?
Chronology of the main events leading to Hamas’s emergence as Israel’s implacable foe by the end of the 1990s.
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“How to Get to Peace in Ukraine,” Milton for Peace, February 24, 2024
A public forum on the needs for and ways to get to peace in Ukraine. We go deep, addressing history, the war itself, and possible avenues for diplomacy.
The Commemoration of the Criminal Bravo H-Bomb Test Is a Cry for a Nuclear Free World
We will be reminding the world of the Hibakusha truth that “human beings and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.”
In Gaza We Are Witnessing the 21st Century Version of How the Was Won
In a terrible historical irony, Israel has been caught and is paying the price for holding the European colonial bag.
In Gaza, the West Is Enabling the Most Transparent Genocide in Human History
By Richard Falk Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princetown University former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Palestine, and current Co-Convener of SHAPE (Save Humanity and Planet Earth.) He delivered a deep and cutting edge history and analysis in CPDCS’ January 10, 2024 webinar Gaza War, Short … Read more
Gaza Cease-Fire Now! No Wider War
We must join the majority of the world’s nations in building pressure on Biden and Netanyahu to declare a ceasefire, to deluge Gaza with the food, water, medicines, and fuel essential for life. We must do this with everything we’ve got and we must do it now. The genocide must end. We must not sleepwalk … Read more
The Gaza War and Its Implications for the Middle East and Geopolitics
Recording of January 10th, 2024, webinar, during which Assaf Kfoury, Irene L. Gendzier and Richard Falk discuss current events in Gaza and the Middle East.
Support South Africa’s Genocide Convention Case Against Israel
We, along with nearly one thousand other organizations, have signed on to support this organizational sign-on letter calling on states to support South Africa’s Genocide Convention Case against Israel at the ICJ. We encourage any organizations that have not signed-on yet, to do so promptly. View the currently signatories here. PLEASE NOTE: THIS LETTER IS … Read more
The Urgency of Disarmament: International Action to Prevent Nuclear Confrontations & War
November 29, 2023, Scandinavia House New York City Remarks by Jackie Cabasso, Executive Director, Western States Legal Foundation Looking around today’s world, we see a growing crowd of nationalist authoritarian governments and leaders – including in nuclear-armed Russia, Israel, India, China, North Korea and increasingly, the United States. In the other nuclear-armed states, Pakistan, the … Read more
The tectonic geopolitical changes and their implications
Reiner Braun is the former Executive Director and Co-President of the International Peace Bureau. He was Executive Director of Scientists for Peace and Sustainability, and was long associated with INES, and the German Pugwash Group. CPDCS/IPB/RLS Round Table. New York, November 28, 2023 No country in the world exists on its own; the interactions with … Read more