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
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
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
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.
Noted analysts John Feffer of Foreign Policy in Focus, Michael Klare of the Committee for a Sane U.S.-China Policy, and Rajan Menon of Columbia University assess current developments in Ukraine and offer listeners an opportunity to raise questions of their own in this recorded webinar.
A conversation with Francis Daehoon Lee, Director of the Trans-Education for Peace Institute of PEACEMOMO in Seoul and member of the international advisory committee of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security on demilitarizing U.S.-Korean tensions.
Russia’s use of tactical nuclear weapons could trigger a cataclysmic nuclear exchange. by Joseph Gerson During the first days of the Ukraine war, former Senator Sam Nunn warned that the Ukraine War was a Cuban Missile Crisis in slow motion. That warning was recently reiterated by senior analysts in Moscow during an off the record conversation. … Read more
New York, July 30, 2022 North-West Russia Peace Movement, Public Council of the Southern Coast of the Gulf of Finland, Sosnovy Bor, St Petersburg, Russia, e-mail: obdecom@gmail.com www.decommission.ru Dear participants of the conference! Thank you to the International Network Peace & Planet for the invitation and the opportunity to talk to you from the shores of … Read more
In his Common Security article, Joseph Gerson has shared important lessons taken from peace conferences and events across Asia and Europe, about NATO as a global alliance, and his thoughts about how we begin to address the interrelated threats to democracy, of escalating great power confrontations and climate change. https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/12/global-nato-alliance-european-left-and-crack-everything
CPDCS’s Joseph Gerson was invited to speak at Blue Banner’s international conference in Mongolia. His article describes the role of Mongolia’s nuclear weapons free-zone to its centuries-long efforts to remain independent of both China and Russia. It also reflects discussions with Vladimir Ivanov, a Russian scholar based in Moscow. We don’t often think in terms … Read more