With the possible exception of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the world is closer to catastrophic nuclear war than it has ever been, and we must act for nuclear weapons abolition.
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Info and resources about Israel’s nuclear arsenal and U.S. complicity.
Things are not well here, but the good, if not happy, news is that millions here have not rolled over and played dead.
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
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.
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.
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
Awarding Nihon Hidankyo with the Nobel Peace Prize has been long overdue. It could not come at a more important time.
Between Biden’s withdrawal and election day, there has been little time for either the Democratic Party or former President Donald Trump to define the current vice president.