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Webinar on Myths, Realities & Implications of China’s Nuclear Weapons. Hans Kristensen, Zhao Tong, Michael Klare
Dealing with potentially existential developments, the Committee for a Sane U.S.-China Policy and CPDCS held a webinar with authoritative security analysts Hans Kristensen, Zhao Tong, and Michael Klare about myths, realities, and implications of Beijing’s nuclear weapons build up. It was packed with information and analysis, and Zhao Tong’s observations about the cultural and political … Read more
Militarized Japan and the Biden-Kishida Summit, Signal Moment in the New Cold War
The Japanese government recently announced plans to double the size of its military budget, which is already the 8th largest in the world. It also issued three new military doctrines which vastly increase its war fighting commits in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. On the eve of the January 13 summit between President Biden and Prime Minister Kishida Joseph Gerson published this article in Common Dreams to dispel myths about the impacts of Japan’s peace constitution, the history of its military buildup, and the expansion of the U.S.-Japan military alliance.
Russia, Europe Ukraine and Possibilities for Euro-Atlantic Peace
On Dec. 14, 2022, we held an excellent and uniquely informative webinar with Reiner Braun, a leading European peace advocate reporting on his findings from a recent trip to Moscow and about the priorities for European peace movements. Until recently Reiner was the Executive Director of the International Peace Bureau. He recently returned from a series of … Read more
Zaporizhzhia: Facing the Dangers of Nuclear Power Plans in War and Peace
Recording of Dec. 11 Webinar with Oleg Bodrov & Linda Pentz Gunter With battles continuing to rage in and around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Oleg Bodrov, an engineer-physicist with the Council of the South Coast of Finland in St. Petersburg and Linda Pentz Gunter of Beyond Nuclear International described the potential dangers posed by … Read more
Sky Shield & the Spiraling U.S.-NATO Arms Race
Joseph Gerson’s In Depth News Article Initiated by Germany, NATO is in the process of ratcheting up spiraling nuclear and “conventional” arms races with Russia, with plans to deploy a multi-billion euro “missile shield” It is important for people to know about and begin debating this escalation of the new Cold War. The Biden Administration’s … Read more
The Ukraine War & the U.S. National Security Strategy
Amidst the Ukraine War, the Biden Administration published its National Security. Strategy. The Strategy opens with the statement at “The post-Cold War era is definitely over, and competition is under way between the major powers to shape what comes next.” Rather than pursue win-win Common Security approaches, the Strategy calls for an integrated ali government zero-sum … Read more
Press Release : Solidarity with Russian War Opponents and Negotiations to End the Ukraine War
For Immediate Release November 1, 2022 For more information contact: Terry Provance (202-258-9562; terryprovance@gmail.com) Joseph Gerson (617-216-0576; JGerson80@gmail.com) MORE THAN 1,000 U.S. WAR OPPONENTS EXPRESS SOLIDARITY WITH RUSSIAN WAR RESISTERS and URGE NEGOTIATIONS Representatives of major U.S. peace organizations announced today that more than 1,000 Americans who opposed the U.S. … Read more
Joseph Gerson’s op-ed on Solidarity with Russian Opponents and the Imperative of Negotiations
On November 1, a statement of solidarity with Russians opposed to the Ukraine War was published. It was signed by more than 1,000 U.S. men and women who had opposed the U.S. invasions of Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq. At a time when the Ukraine War increasingly resembles the trench warfare of the First World War … Read more
Noam Chomsky: The Ukraine War and Lessons from the Cuban Missile Crisis
On October 10, amidst Vladimir Putin’s nuclear threats, the devastation of the Ukraine War, an the approaching 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Noam Chomsky shared his thinking with CPDCS and the International Peace Bureau.