Joseph Gerson on U.S.-China Relations in the Time of Trump
15 Minute interview with Joesph Gerson for Mark Dunlea’s Podcast & Radio Broadcasts
APWG – Articles and Speeches
From the Peace Prize to the Trump-Musk Coup: Hope and Resistance
Transcript of Joseph Gerson’s speech given at the Bikini Day International Conference 2025, in Shizuoka, Japan.
New Sheriff Astride the Globe: Trump’s Sovereigntist Imperialism
By Joseph Gerson Days after November’s Trump/MAGA election victory, a senior Russian diplomat asked how great a historical transformation it signaled. Was it the equivalent of the Civil War, or the Depression era New Deal? Soon it was clear. Jamille Bouie wrote in the New York Times that Trump and his cronies were “waging war … Read more
Trump’s Sovereigntist Imperialism Will Trigger Self-Defeating US Decline
As Trump transforms the United States into pariah nation, he will be accelerating the nation’s fall from power, generating increasingly dangerous domestic and international turmoil and insecurity.
Joseph Gerson’s Thanksgiving Day Sermon, Plymouth, Ma. 1984
Forty years ago, when the City Fathers and Mothers of Plymouth, Massachusetts, wanted to add their weight to nationwide demands for peace and disarmament, they invited Joseph Gerson to give the annual holiday sermon. He recently stumbled across the text and thought it as applicable today as it was 40 years ago. Joseph held his audience … Read more
The Would-Be Dictator’s Foreign and Military Commitments
In this period of tectonic geopolitical and political changes, we do well to heed Antonio Gramsci’s wisdom about interregnums: “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.” Trump’s rule will certainly hasten the U.S. decline and that of its empire with Beijing looking to be the greatest beneficiary.
What to Expect From Trump’s Foreign and Military Policies: Old and New Dangers
By Joseph Gerson What do we really know about Trump’s foreign and military commitments, about his acolytes who are jostling for position and influence, and what do we think the tyrant will actually do? On the morning of November 6, many of us woke to the reality that what we thought of as our nation … Read more
Nuclear Dangers, the Military Industrial-Congressional-University Complex and the Hibakusha’s Peace Prize
Joseph Gerson’s Keynote Speech – Paying for War: Working for Peace – given in Des Moines, Iowa, on October 19, 2024.
Celebrating Nihon Hidankyo’s Long Overdue and Important Nobel Peace Prize
Awarding Nihon Hidankyo with the Nobel Peace Prize has been long overdue. It could not come at a more important time.
Common Security in the Indo- Pacific Region
Download Common Security in the Indo-Pacific Region, a practical and instructive resource to help prevent war in the Indo-Pacific region.