Understanding the Dangerous Trump-MAGA National Security Strategy
Declaring an end to Pax Americana, the strategy reinforces white supremacy, authoritarianism, and kleptocracy at home and abroad.
Declaring an end to Pax Americana, the strategy reinforces white supremacy, authoritarianism, and kleptocracy at home and abroad.
In this video, CPDCS President Joseph Gerson and New Internationalism Project Co-Director Khury Petersen-Smith, evaluate the Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy.
This webinar brings together a new generation of activists working across peace, justice, and human rights movements. Through conversations with organizers from the U.S. and Europe, the session explores how young people are stepping into leadership, building coalitions, and reshaping long-term strategies for social change.
Speech by Joseph Gerson given on November 16, 2025, in Princeton, New Jersey.
Trump’s threat to resume nuclear testing risks igniting a new global arms race and undermining key treaties like New START and the NPT. The article urges collective action to prevent renewed testing and to uphold disarmament, warning that the collapse of these agreements could lead to worldwide nuclear proliferation and the end of decades of restraint.
Humanity once again faces the perilous clash between rising and declining powers, this time between the United States and China. Their economic and military rivalry threatens not only their own stability but also global security. The trade war, competition for rare earths, and escalating military confrontations risk triggering a catastrophic conflict—potentially even nuclear. As tensions deepen across the Indo-Pacific, history warns that miscalculation could lead to devastation. Yet the alternative remains within reach: renewed diplomacy based on common security, recognizing that no nation can be safe while threatening another.
El Fasher, the last remaining city in Darfur, has fallen to the Rapid Support Forces, leaving thousands dead and 180,000 people trapped without safe passage. The International Peace Bureau condemns the violence and calls on global citizens, media, and governments to demand a cease-fire and unrestricted humanitarian aid for Sudan.
From Barcelona, peace activists from Venezuela share their fears as the U.S. threatens invasion or militarized regime change. Regardless of views on Maduro, war is not the answer. Join in supporting the Kaine-Paul War Powers Resolution (S.J. 90) to oppose U.S. intervention in Venezuela and promote peace.
The rise of Trump and MAGA echoes past totalitarianisms, where fear and ideology erode truth and democracy. As militarism and inequality deepen, freedom itself is at risk. Our task is to defend dignity and revive a spirit of empathy, justice, and common security before it’s too late.
On October 9, Ann Wright, Cole Harrison, and Nick Rabb joined us for a powerful discussion on the growing threat of fascist autocracy and the movements defending human rights and democracy. From the Gaza flotilla to the fight against MAGA politics, they explored the roots of resistance and the need for stronger, interconnected movements.