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.
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Who Is Kamala Harris? Her Context, Ascent, and Economic and Social Commitments
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.
Who Is Kamala Harris? Aggressive Foreign and Military Policies
As she accepted the Democratic nomination, Harris promised to maintain the world’s “most lethal” military and ensure that “America—not China—wins the competition for the 21st century.”
Summy Report: 2024 World Conference
A report by Joseph Gerson on the 2024 World Conference Against A & H Bombs held in Hiroshima and Nagasaki from August 2 to August 9th.
2024 World Conference Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs: Declaration of the International Meeting
Leading nuclear disarmament and peace activists and organizers from across Japan, Asia, North America, and Europe adopted this statement in Hiroshima on August 4, 2024. May it inspire your work for a nuclear free, peaceful, and just world.
In a Perilous Time: Nuclear Dangers, Politics, and the New Cold War
UN Secretary-General Guterres warns that “Humanity is on a knife’s edge. The risk of nuclear weapons being used has reached heights not seen since the Cold War.” New Cold War bloc systems have reemerged with the “lattice-like” network of U.S. Indo-Pacific alliances, NATO, and the Chinese, Russian. North Korean and Belarussian entente. In the US, … Read more
Crisis of the West, Opportunity for the Rest?
Speech in July 17, 2024 “Global NATO: Implications and Resistance” webinar organized by the Asia-Europe People’s Forum
Finding Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the Oppenheimer Film
By Joseph Gerson Since the first reviews of the Oppenheimer film appeared, a question has been floating in the ether: Why don’t we see substantial images of the destruction and victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki A-Bombs? Days before the Academy Awards, I had the opportunity to learn the answers to that question. I had … Read more
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.
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.