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
On the evening of Nov. 29, during the 2nd Meeting of States Parties to the TPNW CPDCS and partner organizations held a very successful (great speakers and packed hall) international forum on the Urgency of Disarmament. We have several speech texts in hand, which you will find here, while others are being transcribed. Co-sponsors included the … Read more
On November 28, during the Second Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, CPDCS, the International Peace Bureau, and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, held a round table session on the world’s tectonic geopolitical changes and their implications for nuclear weapons and nuclear disarmament. We were 25 leading analysts and leaders of … Read more
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
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
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.